Lifegoddeath 3

Well chums, here we are again. This time I would like to start with an apology- to anyone I have offended. These are just my views and I know they are slightly rubbish but still, sorry.

Now for the real beginning.

Over the past few hours I have found myself pondering the creation theory. And Darwinism obviously, because the two go together. This thought was sparked by my RS teacher telling us that if you believe in creationism, you can’t believe in evolution. Now I thought- hold on a minute! I have done so happily since I began to be religious and I understood evolution, which strangely enough happened around the same time. I can believe both and not feel the need to shout from the rooftops my queries about the world too much. So I did what I always do in these situations- I think back to my last GCSE class, where the world makes sense even when we are meant to be tearing it apart. Lucky for me, we had been doing this exact topic last week how convenient! so I began to realise that as much as I trust and enjoy the company of my RS teacher- she’s very interesting- she is not training to be a rabbi, as my other teacher is. And he says that the two theories can work. Larry, my darling teacher, is very clever. And American. But he’s still clever and I trust him. But if I start to talk total shit please leave a very public complaint about me somewhere.

The world that is translated into English as ‘day’ can also be translated as ‘period of time’ which makes me think that even though God is amazing, this makes everything so much more realistic because it gave God time. Now, what could happen in that time? Oh, I don’t know… evolution. It says that God created the birds and the bees and the fish and the trees and the arms and the knees- sorry, I couldn’t resist and the bible/ torah/ whatever you crazy kids call it says when they were made, it doesn’t say how long it took, because back then time didn’t exist. And it didn’t say ‘God made the fish and they stayed that way forever and ever and ever’. It says ‘God made the fish’ I am short handing it obviously, but still- God made the starting point, then let it continue. People say ‘then what happened to the dinosaurs?’ but God made the animals and other things long before humans- possibly millions or even billions or trillions or gazillions ? of years between every so called day. Couldn’t the dinosaurs have been there, died out, then –TADAH!- humans magically appeared, not knowing about the dinosaurs until some brainy people started digging a long time later.

My other issue with people’s view of the big bang is how close minded they are. They believe that that is the only thing that makes sense and bat away religion likes wasps from an ice cream on a hot sunny day. The most hilarious thing about it is how similar the two stories are. God SEPARATED light and dark. The world began with an explosion and everything started to…

SEPARATE!

If you aren’t seeing the similarities, get some glasses matey.

I like to think of the universe as being a bowling alley. It wasn’t open for business because no one was there yet, but it was eagerly anticipated. Then the first being/thing to enter the alley bowls a perfect strike and everything starts to happen. This happens on all the other alleys in the building and solar systems, stars, planets, people, animals, aliens, everything- happened. Just like that, everything began. And the first being to bowl that perfect strike was God. I am so predictable.

I am not trying to convert people, or make a big statement; this is just what I think.

I think that all the stories of creation- the Hindu one, the Jewish one, the Christian one but they are the same the ‘factual’ one, the anything else one- are just little insights into the real picture, different ways of telling the story sufficiently for everyone. To be honest, as much as I like these ponderings and pretending to be educated and attempting to make people listen, I think its just incredible that we are here so why waste it trying to decide why we are here. People never found out the meaning of life by sitting inside wondering what the meaning of life was. I am such a hypocrite, because this is what I am doing now.

So I am sitting there in RS and one of the girls trying to sleep at the back says ‘Mollie told me that each star is the sun in another solar system, so does that mean there are other humans and loads of aliens out there?’ and the whole class began to murmur and I started to groan in my head as a girl that I don’t remember the name of said ‘shouldn t we send a hi-tech rocket up there to find them?’ and the whole class murmured again. Then it was the end of the lesson. My teacher looked worn out and I gave her a look that said ‘thank god they stopped talking all that shit when the bell rang.’

See you next time kidlets.