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Friday’s News Hour on PBS had a fascinating segment on some oceanic research that was conducted by scientist J. Craig Venter. He’s one person whose motives I don’t feel the need to question. Although it should be noted that Venter is controversial because he competed against, rather than cooperated with, the federal government’s Human Genome project.
If a person is willing to start with the premise that God exists – in other words, that all of the things great and small in this universe didn’t just become what they are today out of pure freakish accidents…
If one is willing to view God as an incredibly imaginitive, artistic Creator, who made not only beautiful, astoundingly complex things, but also a science of “law and order” of the universe (gravity, time & space, Einstein kind of math & science stuff…)
If one is willing to preceive this Creator as a Supreme Maker of Original Goodness…Then perhaps one might view this Creator as primarily concerned with the goodness or waywardness in the humans He made, and their relationships… In other words, whether a relationship is based upon a bonding, upon truth and trust, upon integrity and reliability, love and loyalty, caring and support. Those are, of course, all qualities of goodness. When these things are in short supply, or non-existent in a relationship, is I think of a lot more concern to God than whether a bonded pair be of the same sex or not.
What if I’m wrong? Well, I’d rather err on the side of being too loving and inclusive…than evaluated by God as being too judgmental, rigidly legalistic in my theology, and too exclusive.
It’s this sort of thing, as are the secrets revealed by the (now-crippled) Hubble Telescope, that put me in total awe of God. Whether it be millions of newly-found tiny organisms in ocean water, or stars being born out of unbelievably huge clouds of gas, I see God doing unbelievable things. The VARIETY of existence and the DIVERSITY of things, both living an inanimate, is astounding. Given all of this, why would God be concerned about gay marriage?
Fascinating interview! It only increases the great respect I already have for all forms of life, and the geography of, this planet. It seems to be that there is a vast amount of information about this Earth we live on, its life forms and inert substances too, that we we have had just no inkling of whatsoever!
The scary part in this is big business, governments, and common man, tinkering with stuff we don’t recognize or understand, producing the causes whose effects we don’t know — or won’t appreciate the full magnitude of, until a giant mess of a dilemma is made.
Trodding as softly as we can upon the Earth sounds like the best option to me.
Yeah, okay…go ahead and say it: Lizzie is a “Tree Hugger.” Yup! “Well that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it,” – to quote a line from an old hit country music song!!! : )
What? Twice the number of JEANS than previously thought? Oh, NO! Just kidding. I’ll make sure Marianne trots over and sees this; she told me she usually doesn’t have the time to visit!