Looking at Things

Do we look at things in a way that makes sense? What is effect of our perspectives on reality? For example, do you believe in evolution (that is, macro-evolution, or man from mud from big bang from ???)? Or do you just accept it as a default type of truth?

We look at a nice new cell-phone and know that it did not just pop out of the ground. Duh. But people and animals and all the rest, which are inifinitely more complex, did that? Sure, we just developed by step-wise improvements over millions and billions of years and then popped out. Nonsense. You know it it nonsense unless your religion* and blinded you from the reality.

But then we turn around and say (or just accept, rather) that life just popped up or just came about by itself over millions and billions (why not trillions and quadrillions?) of years by complete accident. It is absurd on any time scale, scientifically speaking, because life, even the single cell or a piece of DNA, is more complicated than the most complex machine. The Space Shuttle is often put forth as the prime example of a very complex machine. And it is an awesome machine! But the Shuttle's complexity makes primitive comparison with God's handiwork observed in the bursting star systems or the stunning informational networks within a single living cell.

Space Shuttles can more readily pop into existence than you or your great-great grandpa could pop into existence. God created everything that is some thing, and that includes you! He created you on purpose. This way of looking at things, based on the evidence that surrounds us and testifying the truth of this reality every day, gives us hope and direction. This way of looking at things is grounded on rational thought, tangible evidence, and God's word as recorded in the Bible, the laboratory notebook of the Creator.

God too is looking at things. He looks at you with love. His love is not an accident.