A Blend of Darwinism and Creationism

Instead of asking the question, "Why are these scientists wasting their time on this study?" I think people could ask, "What have I done today to further our understanding of the world and its inhabitants?" Science is important to many people, it saves lives. Go forth and be vaccinated.

I am very weary of the anti-science/anti-god debate.

Here is a thought both sides can chew on and take however they want. I have even made it into a little story.

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Once upon a time, there was a God of sorts. This God was the first of many multitaskers in the universe. God loved to do so many things. Some of God's hobbies even passed to the next generation. However, that is not for this story.

Now, over the course of time, God picked up these hobbies. Some of them God liked and continued, and others were shed in the same way animals shed at the end of the cold seasons. God's favorite hobby was something that God liked to call creating. God would take a little of this and a pinch of that and suddenly one day God realized there in the empty space where God stored the hobbies, there was a high-density Universe just sitting on the shelf.

God took the Universe out to study it further but suddenly there was a bit of a lab accident and the Universe unfolded all over the place, expanding and creating a ton of interesting things to see and study. God decided it was a good thing to happen, and selected one small section of the Universe to try out things. Tiny experiments added up and soon a stable environment was achieved, and there were giant creatures to watch.

God came back from a late dinner one day, and found an errant piece of rock in God's Universe had smashed into the experimental planet. The only thing to survive were the most distasteful or the most hidden creatures. God did not give up, however. God kept working, for God was firmly believing in hard work and never giving up.

Next, God worked to build something even better than the creatures. It took a lot of trial and error and God could see that the new project called Humanity was going to take a lot of work to perfect. First they had too much slouch, then too much hair. They couldn't even talk, for Heaven's sake! And this time, God really thought having someone to talk to would be rather nice.

Unfortunately, as Project Humanity developed, there seemed to be something dramatically wrong with their communication skills. Not all of them could Speak to Ascended beings such as God... and those that could had a tendency to misinterpret what God would say.

God told some of the Humans about how the world they lived on came to be. Perhaps it was God's accent, or perhaps it was merely a translation issue... Perhaps it was even because the Humans at the time were writing by hand, but all that God spoke was not actually written down. Good gracious, some of those Humans even wrote on stone. However, so much of what God said was summarized.

At the time, it really didn't matter that it was summarized. Ascended beings haven't much use for clocks or measures of time because they are incapable of dying.

However, over time, the Humans began to model themselves after God. They began picking up hobbies left and right. Perhaps not all of them had quite as many as God. But a few of them chose to mimic God's hobby creating. Only, the Humans called it science. At that point, God was an ascended being with a whole Universe to look after, so God began to delegate to the smart little bipedal creatures.

The arrangement was really mutually beneficial.

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I don't deny any religion, or non-religion, or anti-religion. I believe that belief is powerful, hard work is more so, and that there are lessons that are easily valued and can be learned from any of the good billions of books in the world. I respect belief choices, and as such, I ask that you respect mine.

But the problem with that respect is, where do we draw the line? How do we draw the line? And where is this anti-vaccination wave coming from?

Science is quantifiable, however, and we see the efforts of it every day as we lay out our meal on the table. You followed a recipe to make your meal, and that is equal parts science, math, and hard work.

We scientifically engineer crops or other things to make our daily lives easier. If you are going to denounce science for the sake of it being science and not religion, don't come to me about it. I believe in the hard work of scientists. There, I said it. I have now been officially outed as a SCIENCE BELIEVER. We'll see how many people read this far down to know what the whole post was...

Thanks for reading. I hope you liked this... and if you didn't, I'm sure you'll tell me so.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.