by Jacquline Singer

Created on: June 18, 2009   Last Updated: June 19, 2009

In the beginning, The Big Man created The Big Bang and our universe came into existence. He filled it with large creatures and small creatures and let them run their course. Nobody really knows how long the earth has been in existence, nor do we know why the giants of the earth disappeared. What we do know is that dinosaurs did inhabit the earth at some point, the landscape of the earth has drastically changed over the course of known history, and carbon dating proves that the earth has been here longer than the recorded history of man.

To believe something as divinely ordered as our universe came together from a mass explosion of unknown numbers of particles, causing them to come together and solidify into the planets, stars and galaxies we know today, doesn't even make sense. An explosion causes a solid item to shatter into a million particles blowing outwards. An implosion causes an item to cave into itself, yet still takes a single item and reduces it to millions of tiny pieces. I can not even fathom an explosion being creative, certainly not on the scale of one large enough to effect our entire universe; yet that is what some scientists would ask you to believe. If that was possible, I could grab some flour, dirt, sugar, salt, and a few other needed materials, throw it into a blender, hit the blend button, and sooner or later, a small but divinely ordered universe is going to materialize. And we both know that is not going to happen.

To believe that man evolved from a lesser species would not only discredit man, but the species from which he supposedly evolved. It is true that man has evolved from using crude rock tools to using the laser tools that we have today. It is true that we have grown wiser with each passing generation. While our communications, our manner of dress, our means of transportation and our ideas of self preservation have all changed, we are still man. We are still flesh and blood. We have, in fact, come a very long way in the six to seven thousand year reign of man in the earth, but we still don't have all the answers. We long for answers that are beyond our comprehension and wait for a day of reckoning which comes to all flesh.

Animals have also evolved. Each surviving species has had to evolve in some way to compensate for the changing environment. Whether caused by the natural changes in the earth, or the shifting of the earth on it's axis, or the destruction of the natural resources caused by man, the landscape of the earth is changing. We have pushed so many animals from their natural habitats, they have been forced to evolve or die. In some, self preservation takes over and they shift, and some survive only to become stronger in future generations. Over the course of time, they adapt to their new environment and the species continues.

Each year, biologists and oceanographers find thousands of life forms they never knew existed. It doesn't mean that some past species morphed into the species found today. We were just not aware of their species existence. While there is no new thing in the earth, new discoveries are made every day. May we use wisdom and knowledge to understand, and not wild speculation.

To believe that a big explosion occurred and the fall out from that explosion was the earth and every living thing in our universe discredits the intelligence of man. We were given a reasoning, questioning mind and most of us were given the ability to use it, and and use it we must, to care for those less fortunate be they human or animal.

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