"Our Beginnings" in D.C.

I thought this was a pretty cute picture of Benjamin Franklin wavin' at us...  The flags are at half staff because it's Memorial Day.  This is outside of the old Post Office building.  Benji is here because he created the postal service.

From here we walked down to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center.  That would be North American history, not Central American history, so I'm not sure why they have this guy sitting by the front door:

This would be a replica of Colossal Head No. 4 (of 17).  The original was uncovered by a Smithsonian archaeologist in 1946.  He's kinda cute, too.  (The head, not the archaeologist :)

Inside we find a really cool lookin' giant, polished piece of rock that is as tall as I am!

The red striations indicate periods of high oxygen concentration in the atmosphere; the gray show low oxygen.  It's really pretty. 

A bit farther on I find this interesting little tidbit on an interpretive plaque:  "It is unlikely that living things could spontaneously arise on earth today.  Anything resembling the primitive forerunners of life would be quickly gobbled up by ever-present microbes in the environment.  Primeval conditions must have been more favorable for life-forming processes."  Huh?  Say again?  Why, that's the closest statement I have ever heard "science" say that lends credence to the Creation!  How could primeval conditions be "more favorable."  Somehow I had the idea the "primeval" was all about everything gobbling up everything else voraciously.  Primeval was all ABOUT microbes.  If you believe evolutionists, all life on earth began as microbes - so there must have been zillions of gazillions of microbes all gobbling on each other. 

It goes on to say:  "What were these conditions?  Scientists' ideas about them have also evolved.  Early notions of a young earth with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and ocean basins filled with bubbling 'organic soup' now seem questionable."  WOWSER!  "Experiments have shown that amino acids and other organic compounds form most readily in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, but the light gases that would have made up such an atmosphere probably escaped into space early in the earth's history.  And while organic compounds may have accumulated in the primordial oceans, they probably existed in such dilute concentrations that life-forming reactions would have occurred slowly, if at all."  DOUBLE WOWSER!

Then they go into suppositions and may be's and probably's.  Well, guess what.  My "suppose" that God created all life on earth carries more weight than their "may be."  But their own first two paragraphs take away 99% of a persons belief in their tired ol' concepts.

A warm little pond?  or the Garden of Eden and a manger?  "They" keep changing their story; the Bible is the inerrant Word of God and never, ever changes.