Monday, September 28, 2009
Creation and Creator
Augustine's reflections on the complexity of mind and memory should open our eyes to the Creator. When he considers the categories in which we receive knowledge, the ways in which we store it and the ability we have to reproduce it there should be certainty in the existence of our Maker. How can a person believe that humans exist due to chance; that somehow everything fell into the right position at the right time and became sufficient in all this complexity? Disregarding the minimal chances of that happening, how could that explain where we get our memory, beliefs, and spirit? The human mind alone is too intricate to be formed without a higher power. In an infinitely simpler way we know it is not likely that all of the tiny pieces in a wristwatch fall together in the right place in order for it to perform its proper function. Every moving part is in perfect alignment with one another, every gasket, every screw, every dial, all moving together from the same power source and all parts having equal importance in order for the next movement of the hand to ensue. If this seems impossible we must take into consideration how simple a watch is in comparison to the human body. A human brain can comprehend the making of a wristwatch because all the pieces are of substance, but we will not ever know how to form a feeling, or a spirit. The ingredients are beyond the human capability to conceive. My ignorance of the most common things in this world confirms my knowledge of the One and Only in heaven.
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I loved your wristwatch analogy and how humans like everything to be concrete. We like to see things and we feel like we need to see them in order to believe them. Some people can't even grasp the fact that God created everything and they try to look for evidence that they can see. They try to explain things that sometimes can't even be explained.
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