Thinking about God, Jesus and The Big Questions

I have read the book "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins.   ["The Blind Watchmaker - why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design" by Richard Dawkins (1986) W.W. Norton & Company, New York.] Although the book is intended to argue for atheism, it falls far short of this mark.   Instead it could be more accurately described as arguing for evolution and against creationism.   However, most Christians and most types of Christian theology do not have any problem with evolution - indeed, many Christians see evolution as a necessary part of God's design.   Just as I cannot prove the existence of God, neither can Dawkins disprove it In "The Blind Watchmaker" Richard Dawkins uses examples of the complexity of life to argue against a designer, instead arguing that these complexities came about through evolution.   Indeed it reads more as a carefully thought out popular-science book on evolution, than as an argument promoti...

Although this topic is not strictly theology, I have put careful reading and thought into the spiritual angle of housework, so I felt I should finally write about it.  Understanding God's viewpoints on housework is not easy, I found.  There is not a whole lot written in the Bible relating to housework.  This is very likely a sign that housework is not of vast spiritual importance one way or another.  However, this did not help me with my questions.  Whenever I was doing housework, I always wondered: "How do I strike the balance between doing sufficient housework to make my house a safe and hygenic place but not spending so much time on it that I neglect God's work?"  For me, this was a burning question.  I did not want to report one day to God that I had spent all my time keeping my house clean.   Yet, it is also obvious that all of us need to maintain a reasonable level of housework for health and hygiene reasons if nothing else. I...