Wednesday 15th February

I have never been really religious, there was a spell in my mid teens when I did think I would pursue some sort of religious studies, but it didn’t last more than a term.  I found the Bible contradictory and frankly rather boring, all those begats, on and on, generation after generation, and all to prove that Adam was the first man, and the ancient Jews who presumably wrote the old testament truly believed it and in order to prove the fact, created this whole litany of family members down to Abraham, and beyond.  Before the emergence of Darwinism and the theory of Evolution one could understand that man’s awe in the face of the multiplicity and beauty of nature felt that the theory of God having created the entire universe in just seven days was sufficient to explain everything.  But their position has shifted with changing scientific discoveries to some sort of fable of God’s creation with the seven days representing eons, or phases of creation.  But now with more and more that is unraveled, not only about the big bang and the beginning of the Universe itself, but discoveries about the evolution of our own planet the creation myth holds less and less credibility.  Almost no scientists now give it any credence at all.  Which makes it all the more surprising that ever-increasing numbers of fundamentalist Christians, especially in the land of the truly gullible, America, are pumping this nonsense into the brains of young children. More frightening perhaps is that some of the Republican presidential wannabe’s even believe in the creation myth too.  Even without the creation myth it is a truly amazing story; the hard part for us humans is to try to understand the why of it all. Because maybe there is no why, there is just is.  This is the way it happened.  Life just evolved, not because anything but because it just did.  The way the whole Universe is, is maybe completely contrary to the logic that humans employ, that there must be a reason behind everything.  The creation myth is a myth simply because there has never been any motivational force at all.