The weirdest things can happen at 9:45 AM when I’m really tired, and I’ve just finished a Geography lecture in which I fell asleep in.
I was heading to the Campus Crusade for Christ office at the University Centre to see if there was anyone hanging out there after 8:30 class, but I never actually made it there.
On my way, I ran into a friend, Tunny from Envirosci, a cool dude who raps about freedom and environmental issues. After a bit of banter about how life is and labs and stuff, he asked me about where I was going….. I replied “To the Campus Crusade office”.
Tunny didn’t know what CCC is, so I told him, and then we got into a discussion about going to church on Sundays, why I go, and that I believe what I do out of my own choice. We got into creation, how evolution fits into the scheme of things, and the inaccuracy of processes like carbon dating (it is quite inaccurate in some contexts, for your information. Or maybe that’s radiometric dating. One or the other).
Anyways, we were chatting and then this dude who was sitting at a nearby table (this floor is full of clubs offices) got up and came over, asking me what I thought about some things like “human footprint in dinosaur footprint” being dated to two different time scales, and Mount Vesuvius fossils being accurately dated using carbon-dating.
This guy was nice enough, polite, and didn’t apply too much pressure. I appreciate that — someone who is able to discuss these matters without getting offensive/defensive or aggressive. Somehow we got into Adam and Eve, how they lived for so long, and when they ate of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
My opinion: Adam and Eve were perfect when God created them. When God said: “It is good”, linguistically it meant there was no flaw in them. Scientifically, it meant that genetically, physically, spiritually they were perfect in God’s sight. No flaw. But when they ate of the fruit, DEATH entered into the world. Flaws entered into the world. Genetically, Adam and Eve became defective.
It took a few more questions and some time for this guy to process that, understand what I meant. To clarify it all for himself, he asked:
“So, essentially, when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, it fucked their genetic code?”
I replied, casually:
“Pretty much!”
Then he said, “Thanks” and walked away back to that table he was at…
Now, please excuse the use of profanity on my website. Only in the most odd and unusual situations would I allow it. I sure can’t censor what he said, because it is an integral part of the conversation.
I spent the rest of the way walking back to res, for some reason laughing over and over again…. I couldn’t believe that I had just been in a conversation like that! It still makes me chuckle when I remember him asking that question, and how I answered it.
At university, people are so open, so willing to explore what others are saying, never believing something for what is said. Also, they are not afraid to be blunt about certain things. What strikes me as odd (although it shouldn’t) is that God was working through this whole situation. My my, does God work in unusual, sometimes hilarious, ways.
