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I
had an epic argument with a couple of my associates the other day.
We've argued it before, of course. The subject was Darwinism vrs
Creationism. The one brother (who will remain nameless) believes
in the literal rendition of history as presented by the book of
Genesis. He believes that man sprang forth from the dirt, at the
swipe of GOD's mighty and all controlling hand. Buddy number two
has staked out the other pole. He says that creation is bunk, and
believes the species known as man is the result of untold years
of evolution from the ameba, to the fish, to the reptile, to the
monkey, to the character that we now know and love.
I
believe that chemical reactions, spawned the deoxyribonucleic acid
that resulted in us. So I guess that would seem to place me in the
Darwinist camp. But that would be the wrong assumption.The truth
as I know it is totally shroud in the power of GOD. In my world,
GOD put into place (or engineered, for you science buffs) a series
of natural laws. These natural laws dictated the way that heat,
cold, radiation, gravity or whatever may have reacted with other
matter, placed in it's path by GOD. Those reactions were perhaps
known in advance by GOD, but that hardly matters since they were
allowed to react and proceed as they would.
We
are in most cases, invested in the idea that "we" are
GOD's greatest creation, and that GOD is dutifully watching over
our every move. On the face of it this idea seems suspect. Under
my scheme, with the natural laws in place, we have been allowed
to evolve into GOD's greatest creation (to-date) and our every move
is guided by the aforementioned natural laws. Since we place ourselves
at the center of the universe, we naturally expect GOD to think
so, also. As we now visualize him, it begs the question - "Did
we make GOD or did GOD make us.."
I
wish
this was my quote, but it wasn't I hope that it does put things
into perspective. "We are the creation for which GOD was
created."1
1. From the
book of Oz.
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