*whew* Glad it's Monday! Science lesson, anyone?

I want to post something cute, but taking care of sick Grace over the weekend has wiped me out. I am so glad that Bubba and I went out to Red Lobster with Miriam and Doug on Friday night, because the rest of the weekend was pretty lousy! We all got the "Endless Shrimp" and I stuffed myself with coconut shrimp! It was delicious. I had not been to Red Lobster since Mother's Day 2006. I don't know how I even remember that. It seems like forever ago. So we had a wonderful time. And Grace stayed up all night loooong Friday night. Crying. And she cried all day Saturday. Get this. She had Roseola. Rosy what? I know. There are just so many weird kid germs these days. New things I never had to catch when I was a kid. It was amazing that I was even able to identify what was wrong with her. I read about it in Parents magazine just before she broke out in a rash that made me certain that's what she had. The rash was not itchy or bothersome, just like the magazine said, but she didn't feel very good over all. Other symptoms were unexplainable brief fevers over that past 10 days and minor cold-like symptoms. Strange virus! Supposedly 77% of babies will catch this before their 2nd birthday. And most parents don't even know their kid has it because the rash doesn't always appear, and it is not always obvious when it does appear. So the parent thinks the baby has a cold and a random fever, explained away as teething usually.

So I'm glad it's Monday. Grace is feeling better and I got to leave her at my mom's house today while I went to ENAACT to teach. She had fun with Malachi and got to drink her fill of good ole southern style sweet tea. I got to talk about how great water is while explaining the Hydrologic Cycle to my class, and how the salinity of the oceans is just one more thing secular scientists have to overlook when they say the earth is billions of years old. Would you like to hear about that? Let me explain.

The salinity of the oceans is constantly increasing. Salt builds up in the ocean because rivers, streams, surface runoff and ground water flow pick up salts from the soil and carry them to the ocean. The only way that water leaves the ocean is by evaporation. Salt does not evaporate with water vapor, therefore salt goes in and does not come out, and the salinity increases over time. This has been studied for years, and we know the rate at which the salinity is increasing. Using this rate, and the assumption that there was no salt in the ocean at the beginning of time, we can calculate that the earth is no more than 1,000,000 years old. Now lets talk about that assumption we used. It is absolutely ridiculous to say that the oceans started out with no salt whatsoever. All the organisms living in the ocean require the salinity of the water to be at a certain level. These organisms could not have evolved from freshwater creatures to salt water creatures in just one million years. So the oceans started out salty. Also, we have evidence that the rate of increasing salinity has gone down over time. Many years ago, more salt was being added in a given amount of time than is being added now. These two things lead us to realize the earth is significantly younger than one million years. Like I said, just one more thing they ignore in their quest to prove we came from nothing and are nothing. Pathetic.

Now I must depart. Grace is throwing iPods, and Bubba is going to put on some Kung Fu movie if I don't start watching the Bones episode I have tuned in to.

Good night, and good luck.