Sunday, March 4, 2012

Embryology

The remarkable detail involved in the formation and development of the human embryo must attest to some greater power beyond what we can imagine. How can we argue otherwise? God's fingerprints are everywhere in the conception and formation of a human being. To believe otherwise would be the greater challenge.

If I could somehow muster up the faith to believe that this entire process of prenatal development had come to fruition on its own accord (post-conception), along with the rest of the universe, then this life I live would be nothing but a sad and meaningless existence. It would be a life where meaning itself would have no meaning, where meaning would be nothing more than a figment of imagination. Meaning would live only momentarily, only to die at whim.

And life would be lived at the whim of a universe that purposelessly creates and mercilessly destroys.