God, the Ultimate Programmer

A few months ago, I posted something about how I wasn't sure whether I should become athiest or not. Now I realized that that is a path I cannot tread. I was looking for proof and I found it in a very shocking place. In science.

I know, scientists and priests have been battling it out since before Galileo and Copernicus. Both camps are blind. Science doesn't deny God, it proves God. It proves that there has to be a higher power out there who watches us. Spirituality is in the action of finding this higher power and discovering what it has to do with us. Science leads to understanding how the universe works, a universe so obviously created by God. Science can lead to deeper faith.

Think about it. Einstien discovered the famous equation, Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, E=MC2. It was a breakthrough in science because he uncovered one very important aspect of physics: matter and energy can transform into one another. Energy can form mass, mass can form energy. We see the latter in our atomic bombs, the uranium is turned into pure energy. The former has only happened once. At the beginning of the Big Bang. Where would the energy come from? God. God is all that was out there at that time, God was the energy. He set off an explosion so catacalysmic that energy became mass. Quarks formed, followed by atoms, molecules, then planets and stars. And through all that, God watched and nudged a few things to ensure that our planet was created with the correct distance from the right star.

This planet was built with a complex ecosystem to support complex life. God could have made us simple, but he didn't. In order that we may know of his existance, God purposely made it much too complicated for mere chance to allow. He made it so incredibly complex that one can see how that he does indeed exist. He used science to create us to prove his existance to us indirectly.

There is more evidence than the Big Bang. What is thought? A neurologist may say that thought occurs when brain cells send chemicals to each other. Chemicals. How can inanimate chemicals create thoughts? How can our emotions, abstractions, distractions, and so on all be mere chemicals? No, the mind, I believe is a direct product of God or some higher being and the brain and its chemicals are the vehicle in which the mind operates. The brain is still an amazingly complex organ. It has more power in it than any computer mankind has ever made. We just don't know how to use it. We only use about 10%. You can see how somewhere in our evolution, God stepped in and made sure us humans got the best brains for our minds to use.

Our basic structure of life is complicated. Its a ten to twenty step process just for a simple cell to derive energy from sugar. Our bodies are created by incredibly thin strands of my favorite two words, dioxyribonuclaic acid. 4 letters. AGTC. My nose was created by AGTC. My blue eyes: AGTC. Adenosine, Guomine, Thamin, and Cynamine (or something like that . . . I know it was AGTC anyways) and Uracil for RNA. This long combination of simple chemical letters is meaningless. God gave it meaning. God allowed it to replicate itself and control the reproduction and welfare of simple cells. Yet these genes only unlock what we look like, not who we are. Our soul is totally seperate from the physical body. God formed our souls, at least its structure. Our lives fill it in.

Through science, God made us. Why? To be perfectly serious, it was pretty damn lonely in outerspace.

God thought we'd liven it up a bit.

In other news, creationism is bunk. Surprised I just said that aren't you? Yes God created our universe, no God did not say "Let there be Light!" Like I said, God create the world through science. Genesis was simply a hebrew understanding about how the universe was created. Today, Genesis's meaning is not how God created the world, but that it was God who did. Creationism states that the universe was created in the Genesis fashion, 4000 years ago.

Our modern science has proved that the world is billions of years old, so there goes that theory. Science has uncovered creation to the point of singularity: the Big Bang. God caused that Big Bang and set the wheels in motion for our lives. What I was talking about isn't creationism, it is science. You can find it in any science textbook out there. I just added God where he wa required.

However, creationism should not be taught in a science class room. Science class teaches the accepted scientific models. The Big Bang theory is widely accepted, creationism is not. The purpose of a science class is to teach how we currently understand how the universe works. Creationism, the story of Genesis, is not a scientific model. Creationism should be taught in a nonmandatory classroom across the hall.

In fact, prayer should be placed back in school. Just don't make it mandatory. Our Constitution says that religion cannot be mandatory. OK, so just don't make religion mandatory in school. But there is room fore it.

"Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm!" -Yoda

J Kuhl Signing Off