Jan 29, 2011 Posted on Jan 29, 2011 | 0 comments

Coincidence or Grand Plan

There are a few big questions that man has been asking since man has been asking questions. One of the biggest and as of yet unanswered is how did all this; man; animals; plants; the earth; our solar system; our galaxy; the universe; everything, how did it get here?

Well don’t get to excited because I am certainly not going to answer that question in this article or most likely at any time in my lifetime. Instead I am going to ask more questions, point out some observations that make me think, and ask you to comment as I would love to hear what you think.

There are two major camps of thought as to how everything came to be, Creation or Evolution. Was/is there a Creator that had a grand plan or did everything come about due to pure random chance and coincidence? I think maybe the reality is somewhere in between.

Let’s take a look at the amazing creation or beautiful coincidence that is the place we call home.

First let’s look at our Sun, a class GV or Yellow Dwarf star. It is what could be called an average star as far as stars go. But that is really good if you are looking for a place to live as you do not want to live in the neighborhood or a White Dwarf star or a Hypergiant as one is too cold and one is too bright. Kind of a Goldie Locks thing we have the star “that’s just right.”

Not only are we orbiting a just right star we are at just the right distance from our star. Closer we fry, farther we freeze.

Our beautiful blue planet rotates on its axis letting our just right start at just the right distance evenly distribute its life giving energy around our planet.

This rotation has a slight tilt on its axis. This tilt gives us our seasons. The seasons are integral to life on this planet.

We have a large and magnificent moon. This moon stabilizes the tilt of our planets axis. With out our moon the tilt would vary wildly from 0 to 90 degrees. Not good.

Our moon also gives our oceans their tides. And again the tides are integral to life on this planet.

Our planet Earth has a magnetosphere, a magnetic shield. This shield keeps us all from getting cooked by the cosmic and solar radiation that bombards our lovely little blue planet every second of every day. Yet another integral piece of the grand coincidence that is the place we live.

Are all of these very necessary and truly wonderful things we need to be due to coincidence and random chance or is there some plan, some design at play?

I wish I knew for sure, and then again I wish that I will never know.

The universe is truly an enormous place, so big it’s hard to comprehend. It is big enough to allow for an almost infinite number of possible combinations to occur. So given pure statistics the scientific side of me must concede that the above list of improbable conditions for us to exist could come about by pure random chance is possible.

And yet I still believe that all of this, all the perfection of life is just too beautiful to be the result of chance, that there must be a plan to it all.

I look at things like Fractal geometry and the precision, the perfection, the sheer beauty of such images and how they not only show up from pure mathematics but also are reflected in the designs of nature and I see the plan of a Creator.

I don’t see a creator that is still actively monitoring and manipulating the universe. I think the universe is just too big to keep track of everything going on and be actively controlling.

I believe more in the concept that there is a plan to all of this; that someone or something designed the way things work. I believe that the design has a purpose.

I believe that the Creator started this grand plan in motion and now, if still around, is simply watching the results unfold.

For me the argument that it must be either creation or evolution seems silly. Is it not possible that the Creator’s plan for the universe included Evolution; that the process of life improving itself by evolving is just part of the grand plan?

I once heard it put this way, if you believe that all the grandeur of the universe has come about by pure random chance then you must also believe that the Encyclopedia Britannica was the result of an explosion in a printing factory.

I would very much like to hear your comments. Please post and tell me what you think of my idea and/or what you believe.

Peace,
-Ron-