Finally, a diary that has nothing to do with Swift Boat Liars or Michelle Malkin.
I just returned from a short vacation to New York where my husband and I met my brother and his wife for my brother and my joint birthday (we're twins). One of the sites we visited was the American Museum of Natural History. (I admit it, we're all science geeks - my husband and I are both chemists, my brother is a biochemist and his wife is a biologist.)
I highly recommend visiting AMNH if you're in New York. Exhibits highly recommended: dinosaurs, ancient mammals, ancient vertebrates, biodiversity and human evolution. One thing that visiting the museum that really struck me: does the world make sense to a creationist?
If the world is only 4000 years old or so, how do you explain fossils? earthquakes? continental drift? oil? carbon dating?
How would you explain animal lines that have become extinct? A good example of this is Australopithecus. Australopithecus is a proto-human ancestor ("Lucy" is a famous example) that is not in the direct line to today's humans - a branch that became extinct. How do creationists explain this? Did God make a mistake or did She put some animals on earth to become extinct?
Natural selection is wild and wonderful. It has allowed some species to become larger over time (humans or horses), and other to get smaller (lizards). The dinosaurs grew to a tremedous size and dominated the earth, only to go extinct.