When God was young, he made the wind and the sun

Dude, sorry to hear about the strangeness over the weekend. Stomach viruses are the worst, but fortunately they tend to pass quickly. Still, they leave you feeling beat up.

C* and I ended up staying in a small Midwestern resort town called the Wisconsin Dells on Friday night. We intended to come back that day, but it was snowing the whole trip and, after seeing a few cars spun off the road, we decided to not risk going further and check in to a hotel for the night. It ended up being kind of fun and relaxing, and the snow was pretty much melted off the road by late morning Saturday.

T'giving was fun. All vegetarian, which is nice, and entirely nontraditional dishes. Everything turned out so well, we all ate like pigs.

Speaking of pigs, yeah, Darwinism and God. I think a lot of people manage just fine to be Darwinists and to believe in God. Only when you interpret the creation story literally do you run into trouble. Otherwise, evolution could be thought of as God's little creation machine, pushing forward creation over time, or whatever other rationalization you want to come up with that allows God and evolution work together. I'm sure there are some theologians who have written about this and can provide some kind of a framework for believing in both.

I was raised Catholic, so we never really believed in a literal creation story--Genesis is just a way of saying "God created the universe." No problem with evolution, as all it shows is how amazing creation is. Of course, now that I am a non-believer, I have no problem with a godless creation story. Funny about the need to succeed in science outweighing religious beliefs. Is El trying to convince you to reject Darwinism, too?

Apparently David Berman has found God lately. The album has a lot of references to God. He still cusses in his songs, though, so he can't be entirely a stringent believer. But I dunno--do Jews have a problem with curse words (aside from taking God's name in vain)?