God Created Atom

Adam.

      I took a Biology class once. My instructor told us about two scientists who did an experiment; their name’s escape me now. The experiment was this: They took a beaker. And to that beaker they added all the compounds of atoms which are believed to have been present in the oceans at the birth of the Earth. The beaker was placed upon heat and corked. Thru the cork was a tube that ran up, and on the tube, when the liquids became gas, they placed wires which produced electricity. Electricity because, at the beginning, it is believed that the oceans of Earth were struck by lighting again and again as there was no Ozone Layer to protect it. From there the tube ran sideways until the gas came to a portion of cooled glass tubes, turning this charged gas to liquid again, which ran directly back into the beaker. They observed this tube, their sense of the beginning, for a week. And after that week they returned to find that amino acids had formed from this original collection of compounds. They let this sit for another week. After week two, they saw that a protein had formed. Therein, they believed, was the spark and birth of all life.

      I’m Catholic, born and raised. And whatever deeds I do which ignore and enrage whatever God I was raised on, I always believed in one. Hearing this was, to say the least, a tad depressing. That we did come from “soup.” Some Christians are enraged to think on us becoming of some Gorilla or Ape. What, then, would they think of this prospect?

      But then I thought on it.

      Maybe it’s true. And while science is oft wrong, it is so often right. What was true today will be disproved tomorrow, I know. “The world is flat. Earth is the Center of the Universe. The moon is made of Cheese.” But most of the time there is some reason in what they speak.

      But here was an ocean, and a spark of lightning that became a protein that became a man. Maybe dying is the end.

      But then I thought on it again…

      A play is not begun by itself. It needs a hand holding a pen to touch a scrap of paper. A story is not without lips to speak it. A symphony begins with a stroke of one hand to conduct it. Perhaps God did not create Adam, as we’ve read; and Adam, Eve. Maybe, even God, had to start somewhere. They thought there was lightning striking the sea, and from there came you and me and us. Eventually. Does that shift very far from what a Religious man believes? So, Michelangelo’s “The creation of Adam” wasn’t painted true. Perhaps the hand of God was somewhat fuller of flash. And lightning striking the sea; could this be God? After all, God is often compared to light. What truer light ever was there beside lightning. Full of power and radiance. Maybe these were the fingertips that touched. And yes, it took time. Billions of years. Is it so strange to think that even God must experiment? Try and try. After all, those who believe that we are made in his image can admit that questions and hypotheses and even failure are an aspect of the human condition?

      Perhaps God didn’t create “Adam.” Instead, perhaps he created an atom. After all, science tells us it is the basic form of all things and life. Tell me then, how do science and religion stand so far apart? At the beginning of God, there was Adam. Science, on such a strangely similar plane, there was the atom. Are our two Sciences, one of God and one of not, so different?

Reviews

[Black Hole Halo]

I absolutely love this, how your brilliant mind is reasoning and putting this all together...not one to usually spout religion or science myself, but today your potential is screaming at me, I believe they are two parts of three as a whole, mind as intelligence, body as material, and soul as the spiritual, are the building blocks of life. To me they do not stand apart on their own, they roam hand and hand through the cosmos as the Trinity. Mind, body, soul. Ps..a dauntingly thick book called the Urantia book might be interesting reading for a mind as sharp as yours....www.Urantia.org

[Emma Berman]

I very much like this.

Although I am not of the same religious background as you, I have also wondered why it is so infrequently considered that perhaps science and religion can be aligned.