Ah, so kind of you to show your interest in the man behind the words. Your attention is dutifully logged in my visitor stats.

Firstly, I am married to the most beautiful woman on the planet. Yes. Sorry. This is the primary cause of delay in my DIY projects, and that is about all I will reveal about my marriage life here. I drive a ‘94 Toyota MR2 - a red T-bar, which is the secondary cause of delay in, well, everything else. It’s good fun.

Update Oct. 2008: Since the MR2 is not equipped with safe room for a baby, the MR2 is for sale and I became a Volvo driver overnight. I fixed it up real nice. I mean, I had someone else fix it up real nice for me. Contact me if you’re interested.

Most importantly, I am an enthusiastic evangelical Christian that loves Jesus with every fiber. As one of my favorite authors says, let’s put the “fun” back in to “fundamentalism”… I say that with a glint in my eye but realize all to well that the word has a rather negative connotation in culture today. I realize that if you say you’re a “Christian” (which should be more than a self-descriptive statement), most (!) outsiders translate that as anti-homo, judgmental, hypocritical, political, unscientific and medieval (i.e. unChristian), rather than humble, loving, caring, passionate followers of God. This is more so in America than in countries such as the Netherlands, but that seems due to the relative size of the “Christian” demographic. Obviously there’s tons of stuff we need to talk about, clarify, apologize for and repent from.

I love God with all my heart, mind and soul. This may be completely foreign to you, as it was for me over 2 years ago, but it’s absolutely true for me. I’m not for religion - it can only lead to pride or despair, but the good news has truly set me free.

So don’t be surprised if I blog about it.

I’m especially interested in philosophy of religion, evangelical theology, honest and rigorous science viewed from a Biblical frame-set and apologetics. I truly believe the Christian faith to be rational, historically founded and scientifically supportable. I used to think almost exclusively in evolutionary paradigms (even wrote a small book building heavily on it) , but I’ve learned to see a sharper distinction between genetic / microbiological processes and ubiquitous teachings as common descent. I see a serious lack of critical thinking in the masses and a troubling amount of taboo. Honest skepticism led me to a sort of middle road that allowed me to re-evaluate what I knew about nature. And quite unintended I learned about Jesus in the process.

Considering the end of my faith, I can be pretty clear: either Jesus lived, died and rose according to Scripture, or we are all wasting our time in a very sad and silly way, as Paul said in 1st Corinthians 15:14-19

[...] if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. [...] if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins [...] If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

Sincerely,
Roy