Feb
2
Myths and Wishful Thinking
Filed Under Devotional
There I was, just walking along on the treadmill about 6:30 in the AM and watching the news while huffing and puffing. The anchor announces that there is a movement afoot to look for alien lifeforms not in outer space, but right here on earth. Being dutiful, the newscast interviewed a scientist with a lot of letters after his name. It seems that some have concluded that DNA-based life is all related, but there just might be some life forms not based on DNA in and around the planet and, by definition, that would make it alien to us. He then proceeded to state that because there are so many different types of life on earth and because there are so many millions of planets, it is only logical that there are alien life forms in the universe. We’ll leave that logical error for another discussion.
He goes on to say that nature produces life all the time and that it’s not that big of a deal and certainly not a miracle.
“Well, some people think all life is a miracle,” says the anchor.
The scientist responds, “Well, I know that gives some people comfort, but the fact is,” (now, pay attention everyone, this is a gem), “if you are a termite living in a mound, you think you are pretty special, but as soon as you come out of your mound and see several other mounds full of termites, you realize that you are not!”
“Can you give me an example of one of these life forms?”
“No, not right now. This is just an idea, but it could be right. Our planet could have been struck by a rock from Mars and that rock could have introduced a new life form here.”
Not right now? Could be right? Might have been? These are the same people that look at Scripture and the personage of Jesus Christ and have no problem dismissing it all as myth.
“In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded.
But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.” Psalm 102:25-27
And that includes the stupid termites, too!