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Scientific Coincidence

You should never make fun of someone else’s beliefs

Where you are right now has less than a few hundred million miles of surface area

You can’t even walk on 70% of it

77 years of life on average if you’re a healthy American

That’s only 4,015 weeks

28,105 days on this small planet floating in a large black mass

You’ve already lived about one eighth of your life

Time won’t stop for you

Your days on this blue marble go by and there’s nothing you can do to stop it

Believing there’s something more is nothing to scoff at

Do you really believe that? they say

Do you really believe there is a man in the sky?

Well since you asked here’s my answer

I believe there is meaning in every day

I believe there is a point to waking up and doing good actions

I believe there is a spirit in emotion

And a metaphysical being who loves me endlessly

Yes

I believe in something more

Now it’s my turn

Do you really believe that?

Do you really believe this whole thing is a scientific coincidence?

A cosmic collision at a specific point

An explosion that created all of this

Perfect atoms with electrons that bond and share

Creating perfect cells with all the right organelles

A process of cellular respiration that coordinates as a perfect opposite to photosynthesis

All to maintain homeostasis,

the so-called “wonder process”

that keeps us all alive

Our bodies preserve an exact temperature, the ocean an exact pH and salinity and the ground an exact resistivity

To keep us all alive

Scientific coincidence

We are all a coincidence?

What about that shooting in Newtown

More than one kid took a gun to his head

and what for?

Why was that so tragic?

The shooter could have been conducting a scientific experiment

What is the basis of right and wrong derived from?

What are feelings derived from?

Don’t tell me it’s science

Don’t tell me that it’s science that makes you cry when you get dumped

Science that breaks your heart when you lose that state championship

Science that lightens your spirit when you go home to your beautiful family after a long hard day

It’s not science

It’s your soul

A soul given to you with a light side and a dark side

A soul with genius thoughts and horrid sins

Genius thoughts you should act on

Horrid sins you may commit anyway

and He will love you

He will forgive you

Will your precious science forgive you?

I wouldn’t force anything on anyone

I wouldn’t question beliefs in science had my faith in God not first been tested

I’m not asking you to believe, whether you do or not won’t affect our relations

I just need to explain

To each his own

So don’t laugh at me

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