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Talks with Mr. Martinez

There are people that you come across in life and sometimes you just want to know them more than you do. They share little snippets of their life with you, and as the stories of their lives unfold from their mouths, you start to come to an awareness that they have figured things out about life that some people never will. It is portrayed in their words, their faces, the way they carry themselves, their poetry, their art, their songs, the stories they've written and told.

I have a lot of those people in my life, I am fortunate to say. A lot of people I admire for many different reasons. I know people so full of love that everyone around them is somehow touched by their lives.

I've been working on campus after school everyday as a math tutor. I work a late shift because I have class every day until the afternoon. Sometimes we have people in there, and sometimes we just don't. That's where Mr. Martinez comes in.

One day, one of the first days, that I was working there tutoring, he wasn't aware that I'd been hired and tried to lock me out. We joked about it, and I explained to him that I was there every night now. He did his work as the maintenance man while I was in there working. I told him not to pay any mind to me, but just do whatever it was that he needed to do, and I wouldn't mind.
He is a nice man with kind eyes and white hair. Every night that I am there, he shares a little more about his life.

One night he sat down and talked to me, I mean really talked to me. He told me his philosophies on life and his job. He's been working there for nearly 40 years. He said that every day he gets up, and he looks forward to his life and his job. He takes pride in his job and doing it well. He is proud of our school and how it looks.

He shared his joy in his daughter, and I could tell he was proud of her hard work during pharmacy school. He spoke of the long drives he would take to go get her from her college in Portland, just when she needed to see a friendly face. It didn't matter that he had worked all night long. He would still go and get her to bring her back home for the weekend.

I never want to forget people like Mr. Martinez. I don't know if he knows that his small pieces of advice change my life just a little bit every night, but they do. His words matter.  I see these people everywhere throughout my life, and  I never want to forget their stories.


If you have a Mr. Martinez in your life, share your story! :]

Love,

Amber

Time to be inspired, It's fall!

One of my favorite seasons is fall! It's the most fun time to take pictures because the leaves are falling everywhere, and it just looks so beautiful. So I tend to get a little crazy snapping pictures of every. Single. Leaf. Be prepared for pictures of all this pretty fall that's happening outside over the next month or so.

Speaking of creativity:

A few years ago, I was doing an open mic night and I happened upon a girl named Jodi Marie Fisher. Some of you might know the same girl. She used to run the open mic nights at The District in downtown Boise. Well, Jodi and I became fast friends. I love this girl! She's definitely a kindred spirit. 

She's started a Facebook page to share her creativity with the world! Not only is she a musician, but my goodness she's amazing at creating art!

She has the cutest earrings on the planet.

Go check her out:

Jodi's Facebook Page

I also added her to my favorites section of my website, so if you don't have to search through all my blogs to find her again.

Life has been crazy as usual. I've had tests, deadlines, and also started a new after school job. It's not much, but it's something for now! I plan to do a more thorough update early this week sometime.

Here's a look into my life this week:

Love,

Amber

Between sips of coffee

Someone once said to me, there's a fallacy in your brain that allows you to believe in God.

He said this knowing well that I do believe in God.

Although, this might seem like an incredibly cruel thing to say to someone that is admittedly a Christian, I don't think he meant it to come across that way.

My first reaction was to feel defensive, and then later, hurt by this. As a Christian, it's hard to hear this.  It's like they're talking badly about someone in your family, or a close friend because it is someone you know and love.

I imagined this person sitting there, grounded in intellectual logic, not meaning to be offensive, but saying what he felt was a truth in his life. 

I felt compassion for him.

We are all so sure about things in our lives when we feel they are our personal truths. No one can talk us out of believing them, and it's hard to let go of things we feel are true.

It made me sad for my friend, sad that he couldn't experience the joy, the love, the hope that someone who has a relationship with God could experience. 

Yes, there is a fallacy in the human brain that allows you to accept things without seeking the truth, defend things that you are accustomed to defending, and borrow ideas because it sounds intelligent, or it might sound factual, and believing it without having a personal experience, or personal knowledge of what is true. 

Sometimes we aren't informed at all or appropriately. This happens strongly out of the traditions we have in our lives sometimes, other times it happens because something might sound good and we hop on the bandwagon. No facet of life is excluded, religions, schools, and day-to-day articles or t.v. shows that broadcast something we might feel sounds right. 

We believe what we are taught in our public school systems, because heaven forbid they teach us something that isn't substantiated! 

I mean, they're responsible for our education. How can they pick and choose what to teach us? How could they be wrong?

I might be going out on a limb, and maybe even upsetting a few people by this post, but please know this not my attention. This is my blog after all, and I feel I have a certain responsibility to express my feelings and thoughts in a genuine manner.  I cannot apologize for my view, nor will I. I do however have compassion on anyone I've offended, or might continue to offend (if you read on) :]. I encourage you to open up your heart and mind. 

The science education taught in most public schools, even though it claims to be progressive and encourage a value of open-mindedness, does quite the opposite. You are taught one theory-- our universe came from an explosion, which may seem logical to some. But have you ever seen a pile of building materials lying around explode into a house? Is there evidence in our world today of something exploding and becoming better than it was before the explosion occurred, and not only that, but out of nothing?  

Who designs a house? It’s a designer, not an explosion. I am simply asking you to think about that for a minute. The only scientific theory we are even taught to consider is one that cannot be replicated by our own scientists today.  We cannot take nothing and make something out of it. How is this science forward thinking and progressive? Instead we are taught one theory, and from a very young age. This is a backwards idea that doesn't allow science to progress, especially if we are teaching our future scientists that if you are a scientist you must believe this one theory.

There are many world-renowned scientists responsible for substantial discoveries, programs, and legacies that we utilize in schools now, but not everything is included about them in our public education. Even their recommendations are tossed aside at times. We are taught what is popular, and we are told to reject anything that has to do with God. Why is this intolerance allowed? Is it discrimination to teach one theory, but not all ideas?

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Here is an excerpt from a letter written to the California State Board of Education by Dr. Wernher von Braun. 

He's the leading founder of the modern space exploration program "NASA"

         "One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be a design and purpose behind it all….The better we understand the intricacies of the universe and all it harbors, the more reason we have found to marvel at the inherent design upon which it is based…To be forced to believe only one conclusion-- that everything in the universe happened by chance-- would violate the very objectivity science itself…. What random process could produce brains of a man or the system of a human eye?… They (evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God.  But must we really light a candle to see the sun? … They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron?…What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him? … It is in science honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life, and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance."

Saying that we came from nothing, or happened by chance even violates the very facets of science about order not coming from chaos.

How could one explosion produce so much order? We don't see that even today in our society, as more time passes on, more chaos happens. As we get older, our bodies break down.  More floods occur, more fires occur, more destruction.  Time does not make things better, but worse.

Here's a little statistics for you, and I can vouch for this scenario because I passed statistics with an A+.  :]

We have about 200 bones in our body, and exactly one spot for them all to connect to.  What is the random chance, that these bones will be placed in the right order on the very first try?

It's 200!, which is a factorial.  Try and imagine this number in your head. This factorial = 1 with 375 zeros after it.

There isn't enough time thats occurred for this theory to have been lived out in our world. 

 200 bones is the most basic illustration. Our bodies have some odd 200,000 (this factorial make break your calculator ;] ) different proteins to make up all of their organic structures, and these proteins must have at least one activating enzyme that is specific to that protein to work.

All of these things must be perfectly together at the same time to provide the construction of a living thing with all the intricacies of their systems and organs, but that still doesn't necessarily mean you have a life.

         "Ask a mathematician what are the odds of accidentally discovering the winning lottery ticket for the jackpot lottery lying on the ground by your trash can. Now ask what are the odds of finding ANOTHER winning ticket tomorrow in the same place. For even more intricately arranged genetic code (for something like an amoeba) to evolve by chance is similar to the chance of finding another winning lottery ticket every day for the next thousand years! In other words, you don't have to be a mathematician to conclude that such odds are utterly impossible. Yet, this kind of trick had to happen trillions of times over to produce all the systems of life on earth by chance." 

         quote from Dennis Peterson

Sometimes when I’ve searched things out, I’ve been somewhat fearful of what I would find. It’s not easy researching something that might contradict your beliefs or values, but searching has only reaffirmed my faith by learning more about how science works!

Don’t be afraid of discovering the truth.  :]

Love,

Amber