I asuume that everyone is familiar with the Geico commercials that tout Geico’s website as “So easy, even a caveman could do it.”  A church right down the road from the Burger King where I toil to earn a living decided to make a readerboard message that capitialized on the success of that particular insurance ad.  They proclaimed: “Pray.  Even a Caveman Could Do It.”

They wisely changed it the next day.  Did they perhaps realize the plethora of theological problems that it creates?

I’m still back and forth with the 6,000 year old earth versus the 4.6 billion year old earth.  I don’t think that it truly matters how old our planet is–this issue is merely a distraction from the real problem.  Did we evolve, or are we special creations of God?

Obviously, this church’s bulletin board proclaims the evolutionary side of it is true.  Cavemen, after all, aren’t human according to the evolutionary paradigm, but are the (perhaps inevitable) result of millions of years of slow change, descent with modification, over generations and generations.  Our friendly neighborhood church announced that they believe this to be true.

Probably without realizing it.  All the same I’m happy that they changed it.

The new message reads “Smile.  Even a caveman can do it.”  I think that if we all just smiled today instead of blowing up at somebody, then maybe the world would be just a little bit better today.