vi·sion·less
vi·sion·less (vĭzhʹən-lĭs)
adjective
1. Lacking the faculty of sight; blind.
2. Lacking intelligent foresight or imagination; uninspired: visionless bureaucrats.
My father used to always tell me that there are none so blind as those who will not see. More and more I’m forced to conclude that he may have been on to something. There are those who say to me “Worf, prove to me the existence of God.” I can’t. I can’t do that anymore than I can prove that a person can think (beyond the obvious reasoning that it must be occurring); that there are not visitors from space, alligators in the sewers, or that Bigfoot lives in the forests of the Northwest. I’ll tell you something else too: if I could prove it to anyone I would not. People want easy answers on matters of faith and there are those among us who try to deliver those answers by telling by claiming they have the ear of God through Jesus Christ; in other words they believe that God is contained in a book God is too big to be contained in a book.
God gave us mind and the ability to choose what to believe. Now if you want to believe that science holds all the answers to all the mysteries seen and unseen that’s your prerogative, and no one has the right to tell you differently. I don’t just believe God exists, I know God exists because I have felt the presence of God. Sometimes when I talk to God God talks back, and no I’m not psychotic.
I associate with a lot of different people of faith: scientists, scholars, priest, seminarians, doctors, lawyers, indian chiefs, all of them at the top of their game. None of them are foolish or a taken to wild flights of fancy, but they do have faith in God. Why? Because since the beginning of our existence we have felt the presence of something greater than ourselves and we have sought to understand that presence. People will tell you that eventually science will explain away all the mysteries of the universe, and maybe it will, but that won’t make it any less marvelous, or any less a part of God.
A long, long time ago something wonderful happened and it has lead to our being here in this existence. Knowing something about science myself I can say that nothing in the universe is truly random. All any of us are aware of is what our senses tell us. Science seeks understand all that is understandable and that’s an admirable goal, but what people who place all their faith is science seem not to understand is that it has it’s roots in spiritual concepts; energy for one. We like to think that we are so modern that there is no place for God in our lives because we have the almighty science to prove that it’s not God but just unseen forces that we didn’t know about before, and you would be right to believe that, but in my view you would be wrong to say that God is not there too.
Science tells us that in the beginning the universe was no bigger that the head of a pin and that in an instant to small to be measured, except by using scientific notation, the universe exploded and everything that ever will be was created. I think that’s cool, and I believe that initial explosion was God’s own doing. I don’t believe that it was random chance that put us here. We know the universe has been around for billions of years; we know that amino acids form proteins, which are the building blocks of life itself. Science can explain to me how tings happen, but not why they happen in the order that they do. Now if you want to believe that it all random chance, I’m fine with that, but don’t ask me to believe it with you. I believe that science can answer some of the most burning questions on our minds and we learn new things everyday, but for me when you take God out of the equation you get something totally different on the other side of the equal sign.
Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that I don’t know everything about anything, especially God. I don’t why God created us, I don’t know God’s purpose for us, I don’t know that God is present in each and every scientific experiment ever undertaken, but it’s a good bet. Men developed science to try and understand creation and how it works. Now people say thanks God we’ll take it from here you are obsolete. We are all part of the greater human community, and that too is part of God. You can try and separate yourself from that if you like. I don’t have a problem with that and as I understand God I believe God would not either, and that’s not attempting to read the mind of God. I know that when we are ready God will revel more to scientist and increase our knowledge of creation.
Oh, and one more thing, prove to me that you love someone, that you can think, or that you don’t have a soul. Thermodynamics tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed only changes. It also tell us that you can only transfer heat and matter not cold, which is the absence of heat, but I digress. So, prove to me that you love and I don’t mean by showing me pictures of your kids with smiles on their faces. I want to see love, I want to see a though, and I want to see your absent soul. When you can do these things we’ll be a little further along in our thinking and understanding of God. Peace and Long Life
Love Worf
This may be my lat post for a while. I sense that I’m about to be incredibly busy. Keep the faith, or not.
