Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Why Must God do All the Work Himself?

Mention the word "evolution" and literal Christians go bonkers. "No Way", they say. "God did it with Intelligent Design." DNA says otherwise. As I previously pointed out, we share our DNA with the Chimpanzee. We and the Chimp have a common ancestor. Evolution makes sense. If there are some billions of inhabitable planets in the universe, they will all have significant differences. Some will be larger than others, and some smaller. Some will be closer to their sun, and others further away. Gravity may be very different. Considering that life is able to exist in both high heat and intense cold, it is likely that the life that evolves in each planet will have significant differences with our planet. Some may be far more primitive, and some may be far more advanced. All of them will be light years away from us. Many have come and gone, and many have yet to come. What is so wrong with evolution? It produced us. We do not look very much like a chimpanzee although we are closely related. We have put a man on the moon. We have solved the human genome. We are soon to be able to make genetic changes in our own DNA. If God chose evolution as His way of introducing sentient beings into the universe, I choose to believe that He did a good job with us by letting Mother Nature pull the big oar. If you desire not to be related to the Chimp, I can understand that. However, neither I nor the preacher who supports your point of view can do anything about it. Its a choice God made many eons ago. Long before the earth was even in existence. The time has come to get over wanting it your own way, and accept that God knows what He is doing. Adam and Eve are metaphors. Its time to learn to live with that one too.

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