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GOD'S WORK

8/5/2011

 
    Two events, when they happen, will send millions into shock. One is the discovery of life on another planet. The other is creation of life in a test tube here on Earth. Every thinking person will be profoundly touched, but to those who believe that Earth and everything on it was created about 8,000 years ago, it might seem like an existential threat.  Some will close eyes, ears, and minds, retreat into shells, and live in denial, like those who still deny evolution.
    Scientists peering through telescopes saying that lines in a spectrum prove there is life on another planet will be dismissed out of hand. And if SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) suddenly announces intelligent signals from another planet, they’ll dismiss that too. But bugs wriggling in test tubes are less easily denied.
    Reports leaking out of the Scripps Research Institute in California that scientists are close to coaxing life out of inanimate matter made page one in a recent issue of the NY Times. But Scripps scientists do not claim to have created life. In addition to showing proper scientific caution, they know that it would be a bombshell.
    If a Creator created the fundamental forces and matter, visible and invisible, that constitute the galaxies, stars, planets, and all else of the Universe including life on this Earth,  then life is inherent in the Universe, even if it exists only on this Earth. And if humans one day learn to coax out molecules that can replicate, evolve, even that become self-aware, they would not be creating life.

    Scientists have learned how to bring sperm and ovum together outside of the womb—test tube babies—but do not create that life. They can clone animals, but no one argues that this is creating life. If they one day learn to arrange molecules so that life can flow in and express itself, that life will be as much the Creator’s as any life. Scientists striving to learn how to liberate the gift of life are learning about Creation itself, which makes it truly God’s work.
   

Martha
8/5/2011 11:53:59 pm

Terrific photo!

Jack Gescheidt link
8/6/2011 02:51:34 am

This brings to mind the Paul Simon lyric: "A man sees what he wants to see and he disregards the rest."

But perhaps you've written something people on both sides of the "God" debate can agree on (if not the age of ol' Earth).

Jack

.Chet Osheyack link
8/8/2011 06:20:03 am

Interesting!!!~

Incidentally, Stuart, we might have been at Brooklyn College around the same time. I'm 88-yts old...left BC after 2-years to join the war. Became a
foot slogging Infantry Officer. Post war, after participating in the disarmament proces, I became Provost Marshal of Fukushima province...then home.......

Jeremy Cole
8/10/2011 12:33:17 pm

Yes, a great photo of you in uniform.

By the way, you need a better and cleaner properly sized blog header image. Shoot me the dimensions and what you want for content and I should be able to send you a proper header image back. Good luck with your blog.

Waterford swingers link
9/30/2013 11:39:01 am

I liked your blog and went ahead and created a weebly blog too!


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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
                                   Stuart Hodes

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           With my friend, Nero.
                   April, 2012.
        Photo by Ray Madrigal

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