until around 2000 BC, a good 2000 years or more after the events in
Genesis, (depending on which YEC you ask) and even then it was not
understood by all but a few people.
But why? Why would an all-powerful, all-loving creator of the universe keep
that information from his followers? Surely, such a loving god would want his
children to learn about the universe in which they were born so they could
have better lives through understanding it. Surely, a god as loving as the
God of the Bible would leave a detailed, accurate account of the universe
and how it works for future generations to read and learn from, and prosper
as a result. Surely, a loving god would help us grow to be more than what
we are and not keep us docile and grounded.
Instead, we’re left with a book that was formed by multiple authors who
chose to write about such things as working on certain days and wearing
different clothes. These concerns were canonized by a small group of people
who decided that they were important enough to make the best-selling book
of all time a steaming pile of bullshit for other ‘leaders’ to profit from and
use to convince people to do their bidding.
What If?
I do sometimes wonder if there is a consciousness guiding the laws of the
universe, using people of faith to suit its whim. After all, the second law of
thermodynamics states that order and structure tends to decay into chaos
and disorder, given enough time. At some point, billions of years from now,
our universe will die a slow but certain heat death. There will be no more
galaxies, no stars, no planets, no us. Atoms will crumble into electrons and
neutrons and protons, and eventually those will collapse into quarks.
And yet, everything I have seen so far seems to defy that rule. Our sun is
still burning, converting hydrogen and helium atoms into heavier elements
and electromagnetic radiation. That radiation continues to fuel our planet
and its ecosystem, and consequently us. Our population continues to grow
and learn and discover things about the universe that we didn’t know
previously, as well as things about ourselves. We learned that going back to
the beginnings of life on our little mote of dust, our ancestors were nothing
more than single-cell organisms. Before that, we were dust amongst the
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