Our beautiful World
Just take a walk in the countryside and look around you. The flowers,
the trees, the birds, the sky, the clouds, especially on a
sunny day, and
try to rationalise or explain why it's all so beautiful.
From a simple evolutionary viewpoint, there's no need for everything to be so attractive
is there? Why do we need all that colour in the plants? To attract insects to help
pollinate them to ensure they continue to exist. Why not just one or two colours then,
wouldn't this be simpler? And why do flowers display such subtly different shades
and have spots or stripes and show these patterns and in such varied ways.
The whole ecological system is so well balanced, but why do we need such a fantastically wide diversity of creatures to establish and maintain that balance. We know that if one species dominates, that the process will adjust itself to restore equilibrium, because we see this happening. We acknowledge that we don't know the answers to many of nature's mysteries. How then can anyone be so dismissive of the possibility that perhaps this didn't in fact all 'just happen' by itself as part of natural evolution. Why are there hundreds of different species of bird, even just taking the United Kingdom as an example. Consider the need for the millions of insects and microscopic creatures with which we share every square mile. Does all of this also just happen and sort itself out, in a way in which we can honestly pretend to know follows a logical sequence of events, explaining all?
We haven't explored the ocean's depths yet for example and so we don't even know everything about our planet. So how arrogant and foolish does it seem to pretend to presuppose that we can explain it all through a simple or even very complicated theory.
We haven’t even discovered if there’s any life on any other planet in our or any other solar system or any other. If we did what would be the chances of another planet having as rich and complex an environment as Earth. Even the most sceptical must surely confess to acknowledging the probablility of this as being remote.
It may seem within our suburbs and cities that we're not living in the Garden of Eden, but we're the ones that have built the cities upon the countryside - it's our world to do with as we choose. Just look at a glorious sunset or dawn and say with confidence that you or anyone - in all our wisdom and knowledge - have the answers to an alternative creation of this wonderful world God has given us.
