I enjoy hiking in the rain because rainfall is beautiful ...
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Today began with a rainbow and if that was the only thing I happened to see toay I would have no reason at all to complain. At a place like Weedon Island, though, Nature flourishes and it is quite possible to fully immense the mind in beauty.
Then the rain came and it was wonderful ... being outside in the rain is one of life's great pleasures. The sound, feel and sight of rainfall fills the senses and for a brief moment the soul and Universe are joined together just as a raindrop joins the water.
I spent some time today reading Scientific American magazine. The magazine is devoted altogether to the question of origins and included within is a lengthy article about the origin of life. I would like to the article online if it was available online. Visit your local library or bookstore and read that article.
It is fascinating. What I gather from the article is the following:
- Scientists don't know how the abiogenesis process began.
- Scientists don't know how the abiogenesis process ended.
- Scientists don't know any of the steps in between.
- Even the most sophisticated scientific experiments fail to accomplish the allegedly simplest tasks related to this process of abiogenesis.
- At the end of the day, scientists accept the abiogenesis idea by necessity and blind faith and for no other reason.
Since I am not bound to either theism or atheism, religion or anti-religion, I will say the following:
Abiogenesis is impossible ... impossible by the random processes of Nature and also impossible via the "Intelligent Design" of the scientists who design origin of life experiments.
What does this mean? What are the implications?
You can follow this line of thought whereever it might lead. As for myself, I devote my attention to every beautiful living thing and spend no time at all worrying about the meaning and implications of the conclusion.
Certainly I don't encourage anyone to become religious. Certainly I don't encourage anyone to stay religious. Certainly I don't encourage anyone to become an atheist. Certainly I don't encourage anyone to stay an atheist.
Your opinions, beliefs and thoughts aren't of any interest to me. If I spent my time worrying about what other people were thinking I wouldn't have any time to devote to butterflies and rainbows.
David Mathews
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