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May 26, 2007

Whidbey Island

Filed under: Photos — Josh Champagne @ 8:44 am

I rode the ferry to Whidbey Island today.  It was my first time on a ferry in over ten years, so it was pretty unusual.  Here are some photos I took on the ferry.  I take photos with my cell phone these days, which is why the quality is on the low side.

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May 11, 2007

ABC’s Nightline - Does God Exist?

Filed under: News and Current Events, Research & Learning — Josh Champagne @ 6:43 am

I stayed up fairly late last night watching the debate on ABC’s Nightline between 2 Christians (Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort) and 2 atheists (Brian Sapient and Kelly) about the question of whether God exists.  There were many of the same arguments I’d heard before, with some newer ones that made me think a little deeper. 

The thing I found most interesting was the way the tables have turned in the way the argument over faith vs reason goes compared with 50 years ago.  Now it seems the atheists are playing defense, trying to defend their reason while the Christian’s are playing offense, taking head on the questions that fly thick and fast and asking many of their own to prove that God really does exist.  In the mid-1900’s it was the other way around, or so it seems to me, with Christians desperately trying to hold on to the possibility that God does exist despite the new “advances” in science that seemed to prove otherwise.  Of course, public education continues to teach the “scientific” ideas about origins which if you believe, makes Christianity false, however, there is a definite knowledge by most students of the creation vs evolution and God vs reason debates.

If you’d like to read about the whole debate yourself, here’s the link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3130360&page=2

May 5, 2007

Visit to Concrete

Filed under: Work, travel — Josh Champagne @ 6:06 pm

I went to a computer repair client today, who lives in Concrete WA, a little town of 800 or so people up in Skagit County.  It is so quiet and peaceful out there along Highway 20.  If it weren’t for the economic advantage of living close to the Interstate, I wouldn’t mind being there on a more permanent basis myself.

Here are some photos I snapped.

I’ve never seen a more impressive landmark for a town.

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Did you ever see a high school building that goes over a road?

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And check out this aging school bus!

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