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.