Today's homework - check out this refreshing commentary from Elon Musk on the declining birthrate and what the science tells us about what to expect in the coming years and decades.
The short version is that overpopulation is not the thing we should be most concerned about. If anything, demographic implosion is the real danger. People are just not having enough children.
By the way, for all those who think my wife and I crazy for expecting our eighth any day now, Elon Musk is father to seven.
But on this whole business, as with every other sphere, our worldview goes a long way to molding and shaping the sorts of decisions and value judgments we make. Whether we think of children as a blessing or burden is downstream what we believe about who we are, where we come from, and why we are here.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And to that end, we embrace the Dominion Mandate to "be fruitful and multiply, fill the Earth and subdue it."
