There was a young boy who like most young boys loved to play. He particularly liked games that involved balls...basketball, baseball, football, soccer, even cricket!
Sadly the boy had no ball to play with. So, he made the best of the situation. He looked for the roundest rock in a river bed and hit it with a stick. Sometimes he would wad up some paper and try to put into the waste basket or kick it between the door posts, um , goal posts. He had no ball. He could only make do with what he just happened to find. When he was done, he discarded the 'ball' and hoped for something better on another day.
One birthday his loving parents decided to give him a brand new ball. It was a nerf ball of sorts, almost magical. The ball could be molded into different shapes, even squished smaller or expanded into a larger size then hold that size for as long as the boy liked.
It could be kicked and tossed, batted or rolled. And as long as the boy took good care of it he could enjoy it for as long as he liked. And the boy was happy.
Question: Which of the balls is the boy most likely to treasure? The ones he just happened to find then discarded or the one that was given to him by his loving parents?
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I think it would be the one that was given to him by his parents. It showed that the parents saw that he wanted to play with a ball and he wanted it so bad that he used what ever he could find. But when his parents gave him the "nirff" ball he had all the balls in one and it showed just how much the parents cared for him.
Unless, of course, the boy's parents had also told him that one day they would catch him up into the sky and give him a magical ball that he could play with forever. They haven't done that have they? Have they?
Hint:
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
I THINK HE WOULD TREASURE THE ONE HIS PARENTS GAVE HIM.
The one given to him by his parents of course, he is as materialistic as anyone else. To the title of your article?, evolutionist's clearly respect how things became in the first place, thus "we" would screw with the natural world no more than was neccasary to further our breed. That doesn't remove technology by the way, with that technology we can do better things for our species, but we wouldn't be expanding our population out of of control either, taking over every piece of land we can get to and causing many species to become extinct or on the brink from water polution and loss of wilderness. Population is the worst thing that humans can and have done to this planet, all the little things become very large problems in overgrown populations. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HAVE 10 CHILDREN, YOU ARE SELFISH AND RETARDED IN THE WAY THAT A CHILD WITH A BAG OF CANDY IS RETARDED!
It's a nice story, Bill, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the title. The trouble is that there are both evolutionists and creationists who have little regard for the well-being of the planet. That's a matter of sin.
As for which toy? The kid will likely play with it for a while and then go back to the "balls" he used to make. Creativity is also a part of our nature and, though reshaping the ball is similar it isn't the same as making something from scraps.
I remember the story of a young boy given the toy he had pestered his parents for all year long. He was given it at Christmas time and played with it all of ten minutes. He then spent the next three *days* playing with and in the box the toy came in. Such is the nature of children - they seem to never do what you might expect.
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