One of the frequent things that I’ve heard from religious people goes something like this:
“Look around you… at the trees, the fish, the insects… look in the eyes of a baby… how can that be anything other than evidence of the hand of God?”
Creation is a miracle… the diversity… the intricacy… only God could be responsible for something so huge… it’s just too complex to be the end result of blind chance
well… frankly, I think that reasoning does one thing only… it completely belittles nature, our world and man himself
Christians, Muslims and some Jews (most Jews are too smart for that shit)… believe that God created the world in 6 days just over 6 thousand years ago…
now, lets leave all scientific evidence aside… for the minute, let’s say… who cares…
there’s two divergent beliefs…
- we are here and now because God made us as we are like out of a mold, seemingly on a whim cause it frankly only took 6 days…
- the world is where it is after surviving 6 billion years of unimaginable adversity
1 says that we popped out from the mind of god complete and perfect
2 says that the world and the universe has evolved over 6 billion years… through all the crap that can possibly be thrown at it… all the bio-chemical, physical and other myriad forces that stood in the way of evolution was conquered and life evolved to survive and thrive…
we have survived so many hardships and forces to get to where we are… we have lived and died through millions of years from a puddle of slime to now where we can realize that #1 is a crock of shit…
where is the miracle?
to think that 1 in any way represents a miracle is a joke… the miracle is #2… evolution is the miracle… #1 is simply a mental cop out