Archives for: May 2008
fun things to think about!
I went hiking for the first time a week or so ago but Ive had a bit of a busy week (just a teeny tiny bit ha) so I haven’t gotten any pictures up. IM SORRY! Actually Im not, I love making all of you wait. If you didn’t wait how would i know you love me!! =P
I’ll get the pictures up at some point, until then i think I’ll talk about something I’ve thought of recently. Choice. Specifically the most basic and also the most fundamental choice we all have.
The first really deep meaningful question a self-aware creation should ask themselves “how did we get here?” This question has only two logical answers, chance or purpose. Did a divine being decree we should exist or are we the product of happenstance?
I must admit at this point in the conversation, I believe in intelligent design. More then that I believe in a God that loves us and wants us to know him. I must also admit that I admire atheist/evolutionists, I think it takes great faith to believe as they do.
As I sit here on my porch in the beautiful rays of a perfectly situated sun, on a perfectly situated planet with a perfectly balances environment with a mind so completely equipped to contemplate truths that hold no baring on my ability to live or procreate I wonder at the notion of spontaneous life.
Could the ancient Pyramids have evolved? Could Stonehenge have spontaneously appeared? While it is true that non-living matter does not replicate therefore removing the chance of mutation, such a happening seems far more likely to me then the idea that a precisely tuned organism such as one single cell could simply come to being. How can the complicated process of intracellular transportation be explained to simply start?
Mormons remind me of a limerick I once read…
There was an old fellow of Lyme
Who lived with three wives at one time.
When asked, ‘Why the third?’
He replied, ‘One’s absurd,
and bigamy, sir, is a crime.