Wednesday, April 25, 2012

that's crazy talk

Hey all, how's it going?  I am taking an introduction course online - Introduction to Microsoft Word  2010 - so not having too much time to write.  But here are some thoughts for today. 

Psalm 14:1  The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."

Kind of a touchy topic to write about today, huh?  But I've been thinking about creation versus evolution for awhile now.  Main thoughts go something like this . . . I really, really believe in my heart that it takes more faith to believe in evolution than creation.  Seriously, look at the world around us.  How is it that this all came from a big bang?  Really?  I don't want to get into an argument with anyone, but I just don't get it.  I really don't.  As I type this it is a beautiful, sunny day.  Big, white, puffy clouds float across a brilliant blue sky.  The birds are chirping in the trees.  Plants are growing.  Grass is green.  It's beautiful, a beautiful day - and all of this just came out of nothing?  Things just happened to fall into place on their own?  That's crazy talk.

Next to me, stands my little girl waiting impatiently for me to finish my work so we can play ponies together.  Every night after she goes to bed, I sneak into her room and stand over her bed in awe of the beautiful one-of-a-kind girl she is; her own little personality intact, her face unique only to her.  What an awesome miracle.  And every day I look at my little boy as he walks bravely to school even on the days he doesn't want to.  I think about all the information and knowledge he's gained in ONE year of school - kindergarten, no less, and I am in awe, simply and utterly in awe.  They are miracles and no one's going to convince me that they just "happened" to turn out to be the beautiful, special, amazing kids that I love. They evolved from apes?  C'mon people, really?

As for me, I sit here typing this and thinking about the systems in my body all working together in a beautiful symphony; my heart pounding away, the lungs that fill with oxygen everytime I breath, my muscles, making it possible to even write this, my brain, responding to the signals from the rest of my body - all of this without me even having to think about it.  I ponder the unique, special ways that God has made me, my personality, my thoughts, my ideas - and all of it just came out of nothing?  No, I can't accept that.  You could talk to me 'til you were blue in the face, and I'm sorry, but I could not for one minute take the leap of faith that is a belief in evolution.

I don't even begin to grasp creation, and, if I had all the time in the world to list how this planet and all its inhabitants are amazing, one-of-a-kind, complex in their own way, there wouldn't be enough time nor  pages to even scratch the surface of all that God's done.  Even in a fallen state, the world is beautiful, and, if we stop and think about it, we are beautiful too - beautiful creatures meant to spend an eternity soaking in the love of God, loving him back, and walking with him each and everyday of our lives. 

We are special for many reasons.  But the most important reason is because we were handmade by God - miracles of epic proportion.  Even when we were in our mother's wombs, we were meant to play a special role in this miracle of life.  We were made for better things.  We were made to be smarter than the apes.  I'll finish off with this closing thought - two verses that sum up all I've been trying to say in four paragraphs. 

Psalm 139: 13-14.  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Value yourself more highly than a good majority of people on earth do.  Who wants to believe that they evolved from an ape anyway?

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