Wild Life

I’m hooked on nature shows. Last year it was a series called the Equator. Now we are watching Planet Earth. On the big screen with HD TV the world comes alive in ways I’ve never seen before. It truly is unreal.

All kinds of sights have me transfixed: schools of dolphins leaping to find dinner, a snow leopard hunting on a shear rock face, a humming bird building a nest, mountains rising miles into the air, depths of the ocean revealed. The list goes on and on and my words do nothing at all to capture the wonder. My mouth literally hangs open as I stare at the bizarre and the beautiful. This is an argument for God. He simply has to exist. For me there is no other option. How could all this diversity spring from a void without help from a Divine Creator.

When I go for a walk in the morning I see a sunrise and pause to reflect. Nice. I ride out to the beach in the afternoon and see the waves rolling in one after another and pause to think. Neat. These are every day nature moments. Roaming my little neighborhood I forget there is more, much much more to boggle the mind. Micro worlds of tiny bacteria, watery worlds with whales larger than dinosaurs, sauna hot regions with critters able to live in the fire. All this elegant extreme life on the planet we share together. It’s marvelous. This has to be God.

I am not a scientist looking at these things, but there is one who has tried to explain, . Francis S. Collins wrote The Language of God A scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Mr. Collins is a leading geneticist and head of the Human Genome Project. I have yet to finish the book, it is a read that requires you to think as you go. I am willing to put in the time to savor it and think it through. My initial reading though has stilled me as much as the nature shows I enjoy. Wow, this must be God. I have a simple faith, I believe and just get on with the busyness of living it. I don’t often struggle with Why? Or How? (Though yes I still sometimes doubt the whole thing.) It is refreshing to see and read what others have discovered and confirm anew the right feeling that YES! This must be God. It’s clear He’s here, there can be no other explanation.

I know not everyone finds God in nature. It’s a leap of faith and for some it’s asking too much. But take a chance, watch a nature show of extremes and try to stay unmoved. Read a little of what Francis S. Collins has to say and try to pick apart his arguments. It has to be God.

Posted 6/18/2007 @ 8:19 AM | Weekly Thoughts