Balance? What's that, Daddy?

         

          A wise man once told me that there are two sides to every argument and that the truth generally lies somewhere in between.  Humans are creatures of extremes.  We very rarely meet the truth in any subject in its own territory.  No matter what the subject is, there is Their side vs Our side and never the twain shall met (or is that the mane shall tweet?  I always get those two mixed up.) and both sides will call the other side liars, bigots, heretics etc as loud as they can.  If Side A has facts, Side B ignores them and vice versa.  Doesn't matter if the facts are correct, cause "they" are preaching them.

          Instead of delving into politics or religion, lets take a purely hypothetical situation.  The Proposition?  Gamma Rays from Planet X cause mutations in mushrooms that cause them to become ravenous monsters that eat red headed politicians.  Now Side A receives huge funding from Planet X in return for them lobbying to allow X to beam its Gamma Rays into Earth's Atmosphere.  They preach that the rays are completely harmless and the giant mushrooms rampaging in the streets are some form of mass hallucination.  Side A receives huge amounts of funds from Red Head Politicians who quite rightly fear for their lives from the rampaging mutant meat eating mushrooms.  Side B preaches that X is evil and plans on conquering the Earth once the Mutant Mushrooms devour our last line of defense, Red Headed Politicians.
          Now a small group of independent and very dedicated scientists discover that the aforementioned Mutant Mushrooms aren't actually devouring Earthly Red Headed Politicians but snarfing up evil shapeshifting invaders from Planet Y who have been sent down here to infiltrate and destroy our way of life.  The Mutant Mushrooms aren't eating people, they are eating evil alien invaders.

          So here you have a situation where both sides have some of the facts.  X Gamma Rays are indeed mutating Earthly fungus and the Fungus is indeed eating red headed politicians.  Both sides are missing the information that the Middle Group has so one would think that when the MG reveals their facts, both sides will rejoice.  Side A could rejoice in the fact tha X Gamma Rays aren't doing any damage to the Earth and Side B could rejoice that actual Red headed Politicians aren't being eaten.  However, as history proves time and again, what will happen is that both A and B will renounce MG's findings because those findings contradict their own.  MG will be belittled and reduced to a laughing stock that is completely ignored.  Man would rather go down the proverbial crapper than ever admit that he or she could be wrong.
          Things are never going to be fixed on this mudball until all sides can stop, look around and realize that they don't have all the answers.  No great project or problem in the entire history of...well history has ever been solved without everyone working together.  It is possible for us to fix pretty much every problem faced by the world today if we all just step down from our high horses/soap boxes and listen to one another.  I pray to God in all of his kindness and wisdom that we can do that, because if we can't we are royally screwed.

         

          Since I think that I completely lost the train of this blog somewhere along the line, I will apologize by showing you a picture of a puppy.  God Bless Everyone.

Where did it all come from?

 

Crash, bang boom!

           So I was watching a science video by a "Prominent Harvard Astrophysicist earlier (Yes I watch science videos, get over it) and he was speaking at great length with excellent visual aids about how Scientists are 99.99999% certain that all life on Earth arrived here in the form of tiny little microbes.  These microbes arrived on one of the uncountable number of meteorites that bombarded the newly forming planet way back when.  These hitchhikers would later evolve into the myriad number of plants, animals and insects that we know today.  He stated quite categorically that once the final tidbits of proof had been found, the "fantasy" of a Deity would finally be eliminated from our minds.

           Now this got me thinking which as anyone who knows me can tell you is a dangerous thing.  I had to ponder a very important question.  What if he is right?  What if instead of God coming down, making a nice comfy place to hang out, making animules and plants to enjoy and some homies to hang out with, Magic Microbes from Outer Space (Hey there might be a movie in that) made it all happen?  What if all the stories from all the religions and their varied texts are nothing but nifty tales we made up to understand the world around us.  In short, what if all the religions in all the world were basically wrong?

 

          Pretty heave stuff, right?  Let me tell you it made my headparts hurt something fierce.  I have my own religious beliefs and anyone who knows me knows what they are, but I admit that I have had doubts time and time again.  So here I was pondering this very learned man's idea that everything I believe in was wrong and I admit I am man enough to face this very depressing idea.  So I did.  For all of ten minutes I pondered what he had said and I found myself thinking that it at least a plausible idea.  However I did find one teensy weensy flaw in his excellent reasoning and its the same flaw that has come to me every single time I have heard this tripe before.  And like it always does that single thought made me feel better and I went back to working in my new garden.

          You ready for my thought?  Are you sure?  Think hard cause there is no turning back.  Okay here it is.  I believe, at least in theory, that Science may one day disprove Religions.  After all, Religions are just the transcribed words of God that we have formed into a codified belief system.  I mean, think about.  God himself did not write the books of the Bible (Torah, Talmud, Necronomicon etc)  He just hung out with his creations, talked to them and told them the way that he thought things should be.  The Holy Books of Man (with the possible exceptions of the Ten Commandments being blasted from stone and the Silver Disks arriving engraved and ready for shipping) were all written, rewritten and translated God only knows how many times over the Millennia.  Somewhere, someone had to have gotten it wrong.  Hell, by the very nature of the beast (Pun intended) only one of the religions on Earth can actually be right.  The rest have to be either misinterpretations or outright fabrications.  That is just the way it works.  So it is possible that everyone got it wrong and life began just the way this man said it did.

          Now that said, I come to the question that makes me smile when these know it all Atheists claim that there is no God.  If life here or anywhere else in the universe came from microbes raining down from space.  If the entire history of our world was never gifted with divine guidance.  If indeed all of the religious beliefs  in all the world are wrong.  I just have one question for you sitting in your air conditioned office with your snarky attitude.  (Ready for the question?  Its a doozy!)

Where did the Microbes come from?

To quote the great Stan Lee, "Nuff said."