How old to Christians believe the universe to be? What is the age of the universe and what does the Bible have to say about it? How does the description of the age of the universe given by science mesh with the age of the universe as described by the Bible?
These are all questions that a modern-day Christian who believes in both the validity of the Bible and the trustworthiness of science must wrestle with. An indeed many have. There are whole websites, such as Answers in Genesis which are dedicated to this very question.
Read more »
This site, The Home of Jon, is built on the most-excellent Wordpress blogging engine. I made the switch from CodeIgniter not very long ago, because it just made more sense for me to use a Content Management System, as opposed to working on my own custom rolled website. For my art site I used a plugin called “Yet Another PhotoBlog“, or YAPB for short. I seriously love this plugin – it does just what I need it to do. Plus it’s author Johannes Jarolim coded it very nicely.
I ran into one problem though using it when I was creating my art site. I had a bunch of pictures, and though Wordpress has an import function, it doesn’t support YAPB natively. That was a big problem for me – I could import all my posts, but then I’d have to go back and manually add pictures to each of my posts (around 100 of them). Um, I don’t think so.
So I set my mind to it – I was going to write myself a Wordpress plugin to make it much easier for me to be lazy! So it was written. So let it be done.
Read more »
