Undeception

My MacBook laptop’s hard drive crashed last week and I’ve been waiting to get it repaired; apparently you aren’t supposed to move them when they’re storing data to the hard drive…and I didn’t know it…*ahem*

Anyway, I lost lots of precious data (including all the family videos recorded this year!!!), but if I can forget that, I think it’ll be all right. Oh, and because I have AppleCare (an extended warranty), they replaced the hard drive for free and paid for shipping both ways. That would have been good enough, but additionally they replaced the whole keyboard/trackpad part of the computer, which had undergone some unfortunate wear and tear, free of charge. I sent it in Tuesday and it was delivered back in good-as-new condition on Thursday before noon. That’s customer service.

It feels like a new computer – which is good, I suppose, since I had to start from scratch loading all my stuff back onto it.

Anyone who’s tried to use this site more than a few times over the last year has noticed significant down-times, lags, and/or empty page pulls. I’ve put up with it because the host I’ve been using, 110mb is a free host, which means it doesn’t cost to run my website off of their servers.

Well, I’m trying a cheap (pay) host now, and as some of you may have noticed, it deleted the earlier version of this post. I’ll have to figure out what’s going on…

EDIT:

Ok, I think I know what happened. This morning, I unwittingly posted the original version of this post on the old web host because the domain undeception.com was temporarily – as a glitch – pointing to the old host. At some point after posting the original, my new host took back the domain. The glitch was likely due to my not removing undeception.com from the old host’s records, which I have now done. The RSS feed seems to be lagging behind and reading from the old host, 110mb, so people are seeing errors messages until I can resolve that.

So let’s give this host a try now, shall we? A bit faster, hopefully far fewer down-times, and if I figure out how to edit the .htaccess file, we might really be cookin’.

I have not tried to find a reason to disagree with the majority when it comes to my theological positions. Any reader of this blog will recognize that this has nevertheless happened on occasion. Chiefly, theistic evolution puts me at odds with most evangelicals and full preterism puts me at odds with most believers. In other words, I hold a minority position on protology (the doctrine of first things) and eschatology (the doctrine of last things). From what I know, only a handful of Christians who accept full preterism also accept the scientific consensus on origins; likewise, only a few believers who accept the scientific consensus on origins accept full preterism. I am amazed by this because of how well the two fit together. I’ve been meaning to write a post such as this for some time, so here goes.

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Cliff Martin continues his interesting discussion of the apparently conflicting ideas of the loving Christian God and the God who ordained the sometimes brutal processes needed for evolution. I see no more problem with God’s authorship of evolution than I see with natural evil of all other kinds, but he makes some interesting arguments about an ever-evolving creation being God’s ongoing natural remedy for the problem of pain. Check out Cliff’s Evolution, Red in Tooth and Claw Part 1 and Part 2.

Following Mike Beidler’s lead, I’m notifying my readers that I’ve just added this blog to the Blog Networks app on Facebook. How’s about adding mine to your list and notifying me if I haven’t added yours to mine yet?