Taking A Second, Magpie, Installment 9
June 02, 2009
Taking a second In the beginning God created it all. Six days and “Presto!” everything we know was here (at least in fabric). I am constantly in marvel over the complexity and completeness of God’s earth canvas. Not only was there the stuff for all things good, but the raw materials for rejection, pollution and destruction were there too! God took everything into consideration before the first micron of energy flashed into a light source. God had created a world that needed his guidance and direction from the first moment man came into the scenario. And God walked with man.
The world was not complete before Adam. Only a morally dependent creature has the ability to choose between good and evil. A morally neutral creation like a tree can only do what a tree is created to do. In the spring it will sprout buds. The buds will become leaves and fruit through the summer and into fall. By the fall it will begin to shed its leaves. During the winter it goes into dormancy. There is no morality because there is no choice. There is beauty and balance. There is symmetry but there is not righteousness.
An animal will follow the instincts of an animal. If it is hungry, it will seek food at all costs. If it is mating season, it will follow the prescribed patterns of procreation. It will kill, but never as a moral option. It kills or is killed based on design. Just as water will always flow into the great bodies of water in a cycle of evaporative repetition, the earth rotates, circumventing the sun and avoids the planets in a perfectly choreographed dance of the celestials. The snow falls. The deserts encroach. The predictable patterns of the blue planet are a sign that morality is no business of creations. It is the sole responsibility of the creature that possesses the distinction of choice… morality. Ethical concern. Spirituality.
I have always felt that God slowed down a bit on the last day of creation. I mean, if you take all of the things that God did on those first few days, break them down… “WOW!” God’s creation of light in itself is mind numbing. Physicists, like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday and Renee’ Descartes have obsessed for centuries over what the bible states in eleven words.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
God said, “Let there be photons which possess the attributes of waves and particles. Let those particles be visible to optical receptors, which receive electromagnetic radiation that measures between 400 and 700 nanometers, and let that light possess speed and refractive characteristics. Let it always dispel darkness. Let it be a source of energy, heat and power.” And at the end of the first period of time, which God determined by light, he called it a day.
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I like this! It is amazing that God created us in his image, with free will and the ability to do more than our animal instincts. Our choices matter. We can create!