I was watcing the Discovery channel the other day and they were espousing a theory about how life started on Earth. You need some background info when you discuss issues with your evolution friends, and I have probably been rightly corrected that it is not "random" selection that occurs on earth. That according to them, all things have been done not randomly, but because it is the best, most efficient. I get that, it makes sense until you look at how the human eye sees and our brain works, and there really aren't colors, just the name we give to different speeds of light, but I digress. I have actually conceded that argument of "random" selection as being a wrong word to use in trying to explain evolution.
That is until the other night watching the Discovery channel when science helped to support my position in that according to science, we are all just some random, accident. The theory they were espousing is that 4.5 billion years ago a protoplanet, a smaller planet, rammed into Earth. Until that point no life could exist on Earth, it was only after that collision that the moon could form from the debris created by it. The moon then allowed for the conditions to be created allowing for life to being which began the process of evolution.
So.....all of this is a random occurrence according to those scientists. If that protoplanet does not hit Earth then the conditions for life do not develop which doesn't allow for evolution to begin. A totally accidental, random occurrence allowed for me to sit here typing this.
So what? Who cares? Well, if this is all done from a random, accident, what does any of this mean? We should look at ourselves strictly as lab rats. There is no "right" or "wrong". There is no "meaning to life". This means nothing more than what we want it to mean at any given point. Why would we worry about marriage? What's the big deal about divorce? In fact, why would beating your children matter? How about "saving the whales" or polar bears? None of it matters if all we are is a random accident. We are no different than dogs, trees, grass, tigers, clouds, poison ivy, or wind patterns....all random accidents striving for dominance in our no meaning world.
Whether you believe in God or not that seems to be a sad way to look at life. I look at my children and cannot accept that it is a random accident, those feelings cannot be the result of macro-evolution. I look at how human beings fight for so many causes and cannot accept that this is a random accident. I know how it feels when indwelt with the Holy Spirit to accept that this is a random accident caused by a random collison of a protoplanet with our Earth.
