The functions of all that we know to exist are extremely complicated. Through centuries of observation, study and research, scientists have discovered some of the secrets that make life possible. Additionally, many scientists believe they have an understanding of what holds this solar system together. Two key words here: discover and believe. As an example, some of the scientific “Truths” I learned at Arkansas Tech in the early 1970’s regarding nutrition and athletic conditioning have been replaced by new scientific “Truths”. Many similar examples exist. Scientific fact is often replaced by scientific fact. Scientific fact should be Absolute Truth. If a fact is not Absolutely True, how can it be presented as a fact? Here’s an Absolute Truth for you. Man has not been able to, and never will be able to, create. Man invents. Man discovers scientific laws. Man discovers raw materials. Man does not create from nothing. The point being is that humans are capable of discovering the scientific laws governing this solar system, this planet, and life upon this planet and within this solar system and man is capable of devising different means of using these laws and pre-existing raw materials to benefit himself as well as all of mankind. Man, however, can not create something from nothing. Because man can only discover and invent, man can only believe he fully understands the solar system, the Earth, as well as life. So, should man stop trying to understand life? Absolutely not. The study of all that we know to exist is exciting, challenging, and points to Absolute Truth. Absolute Truth, remember is irrevocable fact. Absolute Truth, was True yesterday, is True today, and will be True tomorrow.
I’m not demanding you accept my beliefs. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you’re right. Maybe we’re both wrong. This is what freedom is all about. Each of us free to think. To choose. To believe what we choose to believe. All that I ask you to do is think. Could all that we know to exist have been the result of pure chance? Is it possible that all we know to exist is the result of just an accident? Remember, that as technology advances, science continues to make more discoveries involving life, previously unknown planets, solar systems, galaxies. If you think about it, and you should, all of these discoveries can become overwhelming as well as stimulating.
I’m as skeptical as the next human. It is difficult for me to accept anything that I have not seen with my own eyes, anything that I have not touched with my own hands, anything that I have not tasted, smelled, heard. Because I am skeptical, I have difficulty accepting the fact that out there somewhere, some place, lives a Creator. A Supreme Being. Someone not only smarter than I, but eminently more powerful. A Being to which I owe my allegiance because that Being can create, while I and my kind can only discover and invent. A Being to which I owe my allegiance because without that Being, I would not, could not exist. Conflict results due to my natural skepticism. As a student of science, what do I accept? As a lover of knowledge, what do I choose to believe? Something deep inside of me whispers, “There is no Creator. If a Creator exists, why have you not seen this Being, spoken with this Being, dined with this Being”? Yet, a stronger, more authoritative Voice pleads with me to follow my own common sense. Pleads with me to think. “What about stem cells”, the stronger Voice asks? “The water cycle”? “Gravity”? Should I trust my own common sense? A common sense based upon knowledge that points to Absolute Truth. Common sense based upon the knowledge of science. Common sense that overcomes my five physical senses. Life, Earth, our solar systems, the Milky Way, other galaxies. Isn’t all of this too complicated, too wonderful to be an accident?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”.
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America