Day 139
Apathy is as prevalent to individuals as it is uninteresting to others. There is this disconnect between us and the stories we read, and the movies we see. The plots are fantastical, the timing is perfect, even the 'imperfections' of a story are carefully designed. The drive home from the theatre always gets to me; I just see buildings and lights and people walking about. The world of the movie I just left tells me that this real world isn't interesting or worth watching.
But then we find big ideas in very small things. Watch two rams butting heads over a female, or watch an ant carry a dead bug back to its colony with determination. There's something just massive in there, a push for the continuation of life that every creatures has in common with every other. The methodologies, strategies, and levels of consciousness may be different, but the one property that every living thing has in common is also the most important property.
And I would love to have a look at the singular common ancestor of every living thing on Earth. It did exist, briefly, billions of years ago. It couldn't have been more than a small string of amino acids formed spontaneously in just the right environment, such that it self-replicated.
There is, literally coursing through your veins, a set of common DNA patterns with every other living thing, ranging from viruses to other mammals to plants to fish living at the bottom of the ocean. Every organic thing is a relative, some more distant and some closer.
How people can say evolution has no spiritual content is absolutely beyond me. I find the naturalistic theory of life's appearance and development to be much more compelling and beautiful than the so-called explanation of God's brute force creation of, and arbitration over, the world. Supernatural creation stories seem so sloppy, so incomplete, so inaccessible.
But then we find big ideas in very small things. Watch two rams butting heads over a female, or watch an ant carry a dead bug back to its colony with determination. There's something just massive in there, a push for the continuation of life that every creatures has in common with every other. The methodologies, strategies, and levels of consciousness may be different, but the one property that every living thing has in common is also the most important property.
And I would love to have a look at the singular common ancestor of every living thing on Earth. It did exist, briefly, billions of years ago. It couldn't have been more than a small string of amino acids formed spontaneously in just the right environment, such that it self-replicated.
There is, literally coursing through your veins, a set of common DNA patterns with every other living thing, ranging from viruses to other mammals to plants to fish living at the bottom of the ocean. Every organic thing is a relative, some more distant and some closer.
How people can say evolution has no spiritual content is absolutely beyond me. I find the naturalistic theory of life's appearance and development to be much more compelling and beautiful than the so-called explanation of God's brute force creation of, and arbitration over, the world. Supernatural creation stories seem so sloppy, so incomplete, so inaccessible.
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