Ice, Ice Baby
As I stepped outside this morning, I was struck by the beauty of ice. Yeah, I don't like it because it's all slippery and I fall, a lot. But, it is a beautiful sight: all the trees coated in ice and reflecting the light, the whole world looking quite alien to my eyes. It struck me that I don't take much time to wonder.
Wonder is defined as rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience. I haven't sat down and been in awe at God's creation in a while. It amazes me that people can look at all the variations on beauty that God created and not see that there must be a Creator. Particularly looking at this ice storm, seeing things that are so new and different looking, yet not "broken" (at least here we didn't have too much damage, the ice just coated us and left). The trees themselves were designed to not break under a lot of strain. Yes, when push comes to shove they will break, but they were made to be able to bend, flex and move. I mean, who looks at a truck driving down the road and exclaims: "Wow! That truck is a great example of natural selection producing a complex organism." No one does because we KNOW the truck was designed and built by someone/something. Yet, still we doubt the fact that nature was created. Something billions of times more complex than a vehicle, yet we believe it came about randomly?
I don't understand how people can make that leap of faith. And yes, it is a drastic leap of faith to believe that we randomly came to be: there is absolutely zero evidence supporting macro evolution (that we randomly evolved by chance from ooze). Micro evolution is a scientifically proven fact (small changes: like the color of markings on an animal, beak size on a bird, etc.). I have no problem accepting that. Micro evolution is not theory but fact. However, the macro side is unscientific. It's guessing about things more so than allowing for a creator. The only difference is that with the religious dogma of macro evolution you don't have to worry about anything as old fashioned as morality.
Some might say this is the rantings of a mad man, but I have thought, read, and studied a lot to reach this point. By looking at the biology simply inside a living organism (trees, humans, birds, etc.), there is no way it could randomly come about: if one part of the complex machine that runs the organism fails, the entire organism dies. How then could random selection and random mutation cause something so complex? Like I said, I don't look at a truck driving down the road and think it evolved, so why should we think that something infinitely more complex evolved?
Wonder is defined as rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience. I haven't sat down and been in awe at God's creation in a while. It amazes me that people can look at all the variations on beauty that God created and not see that there must be a Creator. Particularly looking at this ice storm, seeing things that are so new and different looking, yet not "broken" (at least here we didn't have too much damage, the ice just coated us and left). The trees themselves were designed to not break under a lot of strain. Yes, when push comes to shove they will break, but they were made to be able to bend, flex and move. I mean, who looks at a truck driving down the road and exclaims: "Wow! That truck is a great example of natural selection producing a complex organism." No one does because we KNOW the truck was designed and built by someone/something. Yet, still we doubt the fact that nature was created. Something billions of times more complex than a vehicle, yet we believe it came about randomly?
I don't understand how people can make that leap of faith. And yes, it is a drastic leap of faith to believe that we randomly came to be: there is absolutely zero evidence supporting macro evolution (that we randomly evolved by chance from ooze). Micro evolution is a scientifically proven fact (small changes: like the color of markings on an animal, beak size on a bird, etc.). I have no problem accepting that. Micro evolution is not theory but fact. However, the macro side is unscientific. It's guessing about things more so than allowing for a creator. The only difference is that with the religious dogma of macro evolution you don't have to worry about anything as old fashioned as morality.
Some might say this is the rantings of a mad man, but I have thought, read, and studied a lot to reach this point. By looking at the biology simply inside a living organism (trees, humans, birds, etc.), there is no way it could randomly come about: if one part of the complex machine that runs the organism fails, the entire organism dies. How then could random selection and random mutation cause something so complex? Like I said, I don't look at a truck driving down the road and think it evolved, so why should we think that something infinitely more complex evolved?
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