Today is the kind of day you can appreciate nature in its many forms. Such days are rare in the North Country of New York, but they are special ones. This sort of day requires a thing of sweet tea and a park bench, not caring about being alone, indeed, not caring about anything. Listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers walking some trails, watching rays of sun break through the trees gives you such a feeling of fulfillment. It has occurred to me that such natural beauty has gone unnoticed and taken for granted.
That is probably the most redeeming factor of living here; it is very beautiful here, especially in the fall. Even though it is sometimes twenty below zero, the snow cover often adds a fairytale feature to the landscape. I look at all this and wonder how anyone could ever doubt the possibility of a higher power. Moreover, how anyone could think that all of this came from a cosmic explosion. Of this I am certain; this world was formed with the purpose of supporting life. I have no doubts on this fact.
Chaos is an after effect of our interaction with sin, not a state of nature. Nature was created for the implicit goal of sustaining humanity, the laws of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology are factors we use to explain the universe and everything we find in it, not a tool to disprove or prove the existence of God. That is impossible, because God created nature and the rules with which it is driven. How do we as mere mortals define rules that an omnipresent, eternal being, created? Where do we get the right to say what is God’s and what is not God’s? Can it not be possible that God uses evolution to bring the world to the state He desired it to be? Creation has always been taught to be seven days, but I personally believe that God can create and destroy any world in any amount of time He wishes.
I am not a pastor, nor a priest, or in any capacity a speaker for the Church. There is no education in Theology in my resume and I am not really old enough to say I have experienced much of anything. However, I am a thinker, and as thinkers always do, I contemplate things that perhaps, not everyone does. That may seem improper to you, but for me, it gives me reason, and that is important. If you desire to contradict or debate anything I have said, feel free to do so, but please dear reader, be civil.
I have to agree with you about seeing God in all of his creation. So magnificent is the beauty of His world. I wish we would take better care of it. Thanks for your thoughts and musings!
ReplyDeleteIf one really, really looks at creation, the beauty, the magnificence, it becomes difficult to imagine these results were manufactured through chaos. Especially in light of the new understanding of the cell structure and DNA. Furthermore, in light of the fact that with a little interpretation and thought, creationism and evolutionism can match step for step, in fact, the creation story in genesis follows what evolutionism has taught us about what was here first. It seems to me... science is proving more and more, that without a designer. the odds of a chaotic event masterminding the process are so astronomically impossible that we are forced to accept that a creation story makes more sense after all. So why the rapid decline in western culture of the belief in creationism? Is it because we don't see anymore what is around us? Is it because we're so busy being too busy being our own God that we'd rather find a way to discredit the belief in God. Justification? Politics? Being Politically Correct? One last thought. The foundational belief in a good and bad, came from the belief in the existence of a god(s). Where now will we get it, and is the continued escalation of violence and indication of how will we behave when we remove God? Evolution invites us to believe that the strong survive? Is this how I want my future to look? Sounds more like a Conan the Barbarian story.
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