The Taming of the Plesiosaurus

plesiosaurus looks for the appropriate mode of travel.

the snowmobile should do.

we find the plesiosaurus and attempt to domesticate him. we succeed.

creating evolution? evolving creativity?

So the story goes thusly: God made the earth in six days, made man out of dust in his image, made woman out of man, made the animals and plants that populate the earth. Is evolution biblically possible? Of course! Creationism can be reconciled with Darwin's theory if one realizes that God-days are probably much longer than people-days. Evolution's practically in the bible if you read between the lines. The dust was space dust that combined with gases and eventually water to become the unicellular organism that, through natural selection, became human. Pretty cool. I'm pretty sure that the rib/Eve thing was a metaphor.

The problem I have with strict atheism is that we can explain a godless universe up to the big bang. Where did the big bang come from? Where did that come from? Where did the thing before that come from?

Obviously there are probably answers. We may even get to them eventually. Not too long ago, the earth was indisputably flat, now it's indisputably round. Is creation incredible? Yes! Is there a god? Is there only one? Was our universe created by an exploding bullet fired in a god-level turf war? Maybe there is a god. Maybe there isn't, but I'm not going to entertain the inconsequential question of who created life. All I know is that I'm living it.

I suppose many political regimes would have their platforms made legitimate if the presence of a deity was made fact. Having faith in a legend or myth does not make it fact. How many people argue that they are religious because they were brought up that way? If someone is told that the stars are the souls of the dead over and over again from birth, of course they'll believe it, but repeating something over and over doesn't make it fact (or shouldn't, I believe). To prove whether or not stars are really the souls of the dead, one has to go to a star and run tests on it. If it's a ball of particles and gases the experimenter will get burnt to a crisp and die. If it's a soul, they may turn inside out or something. Another theory on what would happen if humankind did encounter a big shiny soul in the sky comes from Kelvin: "we'd merge and become a single consciousness, then travel to the next star. Once we've gathered all the souls together, we'd have achieved the apex of humanity, as we'd have no barriers between all of us. Everything would be open and free."

I can see this mechanism happening and I'm still on earth. A cute sub-theory branching from this theory would be that stars live on earth as sparkly little balls of fire within each and every one of us.

It may be comforting to believe that there is a god but debating in circles and trying to prove it is not productive. Acknowledging that there may or may not be a god, getting past it, and learning about ourselves, each other and our environment should be our first priority.

Evolution is amazing, a society that allows open discourses on religion is amazing. The implications of the globalization of scientific knowledge are amazing. Life is amazing no matter where it came from and it shouldn't be wasted writing blogs about wasting away life questioning theism.