Our Mother Earth

Have you ever really given serious thought to how much our lives depend on the Earth for our very existence? There is no other place in the universe known to man that is naturally suited to human habitation. The Earth is an amazing place. The earth brings forth everything we need to sustain our life; everything. Like our mother it nourishes and nurtures us. The earth takes care of us. There are also some other amazing things about the Earth and our relationship to it that I find mind boggling. It leaves me in awe. Who would have thought it, but it is so.

This planet we live on, our home in this massive universe is awesome beyond all human imagination. It is a living planet and fascinating in that the physical earth genetics connects us, the human species of animal to somewhere around ten million other living species of animals and plants, all other living things known to man, give or take a few hundred thousand that we may not even know about yet. So say the evolutionists and other scientist in the fields of biology and genetic research. Amazing.

If the theory of evolution is anywhere close to the ball park, it takes us back about three billion years or so to a single common ancestor. On this point, thought I am not an evolutionist, I agree, however I think their time line is off just a little more than a tad. Hmmm, a single common ancestor, the common denominator with all other living things? Now that makes me stop and think about something else I read, from the creationist point of view. Could it be? Could they possibly, though unintentionally be referring to Adam and the material Adam was created from? We all learned in elementary school that man's body is made up of the same elements that are found within the earth itself. We know that is so. Our fourth grade teacher said so and it was right there in black and white on the pages of our science text book. Are we, the evolutionist and the creationist, just using different words to describe the same event? That is a possibility and more likely a probability. If I believe what is written in that science book, then why pray tell, should I not believe what is written in the Bible?

Now the Adam and Eve theory is that God, or a supreme higher power that I choose to call God, created the heavens and the earth and all, including the human species, therein. The Bible tells us that God created man from the dust of the earth; we are made out of dirt, clay, mud. We are created from the very elements of the physical earth. I just said that my fourth grade teacher said that too and she got her information from a science book that adheres to the theory of evolution. Wow! Amazing.

We humans have a genetic code that connects, relates us to all other living things. Genetic science and research is something that is relatively new to the scientific world but the principle of this science has been right in front of us all along. It seems we are just now waking up to it. My dog, my cat, the birds at my birdfeeder, the fish in the river, that silly chipmunk living in my stonewall, the ant on my peony flower, the spider spinning its web in the corner of my patio, that giant oak tree that shades me from the sun, the pesky mosquito that is bugging me while I'm trying to catch the fish in the river, the worm on my fish hook and on and on through the entire list of all living things, we're related; maybe only distantly like umpteenth cousins ten thousand times removed but we're related. Genetics proves it to be so and the Bible says so.

The concept of a single origin of life for all living things seems from my understanding to be right on target. In this case I conclude that God, who according to the Bible, breathed life into man and Earth which makes up our physical being, well, they must be our original parents that all began back in the beginning with one; God the creator of all things. It stands to reason then, if all this is so, that Earth must be our mother and if Earth is our mother then God must be our father. This concept is as old as time. Consider the myths and legends of the ancient ones. Maybe it isn't such a myth at all.

The evolutionary view is that there is a single origin to all life supported by the evidence of DNA coding found in all living matter. Within all living things the DNA code is the instruction manual so to speak of our genes and chromosomes, where the directions for living are written. DNA is a sort of chemical communication system that scientist have labeled with a name that consist of just four letters, four letters that always appear in this order ACTG. Now I don't know what ACTG actually means in scientific terms but I've come up with my own theory; perhaps, despite all our research, all our hypothesizing, maybe it all comes down to this…ACTG in its simplest terms means ACT of GOD. Now there is a hypothesis for you to toss around over lunch.