The Worst Thing about Creationism
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Have you really ever stopped to smell the roses? Ever spend time really enjoying a sunset or a sunrise? How about looking at the stars? Do you wonder if it was created by some deity, or do you accept that it is simply the evolution of worlds?
Of all the things about creationism, perhaps the worst is simply its lack of beauty. It teaches – nay, encourages – people to be content with a small Universe. It teaches that it is okay, even good, to look up at that deep band of stars that comprise the Milky Way and to say, “Meh. What else is there?” This is what believers in special creation are taught. They believe, most arrogantly, that there is nothing greater out there than their concept of an ever-shrinking, ever-so-tiny god. They believe that all we say was created for us a mere 6 thousand years ago.
Reason, rationality, and science encourage one to sit outside on one of those warm summer nights, pure awe undaunted by the anonymous fears lurking in the dark. They say, Look! there’s so much to be known. Don’t ever be satisfied with the Universe you know. They teach, “Wow! What else is there?” They teach that it is not good but stupendously great to wonder – and it is even greater to tear that wonder asunder and leave it in shattered little pieces so to discover that, yes, there are still deeper wonders. That is the prize of knowledge. Creationism rejects this beauty.
Of course, none of this says whether one or the other is true. Reality dictates that (and reality has a strong bias toward the truths of science). What this does suggest, however, is that something so vile, empty, and ugly as creationism or petty, little humanoid gods has no place among the robust beauty of science and reason and rationality. Go outside and look at the stars.
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Beautifully put, Mike.
However, if you reject creationism you reject the glories of some of Adam’s heirs riding their dinosaurs in the Great Dinosaur Roundup. To the query regaRDING HOW THE aRK HANDLED THOSE GREAT BEASTS, A CREATIONIST BROCHURE i ONCE READ POINTED OUT THAT OBVIOUSLY, nOAH SIMPLY CARRIED DINOSAUR EGGS ON BOARD.(Rats! Sometimes I really dislike CapsLock.My early Southern Baptist rearing must be trying to sabotage Sarcasm towards creationism.)
Lol….Ya gotta love those dinosaur cowboys.
Glad to see you writing again Mike. I had forgotten how good you were. Great piece.
I think we’re just like a speck of sand on an endless beach.
Ramen, brother! Ever notice when you lie down during the day and close your eyes for a long period of time that you soon begin to see the same shapes that are in the night sky? Maybe we live inside a brain. LOL
Maybe we’re little more than a virus inside the head of a giant beast. 🙂