Slime or Divine?

Slime or Divine?

Confession . . . I secretly and regularly check in on what my neighbors are up to . . . Relax!!!  I’m referring to my game-cams strewn around our property. Yesterday they captured 5 different feral friends – 1 insect, 3 birds, and Bubba, a hefty male bear frequent guest.

According to Google, the instantaneous, cyber knowledge bank upgrade to my once-upon-a-time childhood’s snail pace, 24 volume, page turning encyclopedia, there are:

Between15,000 to 18,000 new species are discovered on earth each year. Scientists have a wide range of estimates of just how many species actually exist, of which only a small fraction have been identified. One of the most cited approximations is there are an astounding 8.7 million different species of life on earth today!

Among the currently described species it’s estimated 1.5 million insects. The constant low drone of millions cicadids emerging from their 17-year buried nap is now resonating throughout the forest here. This ole endoskeleton species is grateful that insects are fitted with exoskeletons which prevents them from growing into huge, un-squash-able’ sizes.

Birds, the masters of flight, account for about 11,000 species. Bubba, ‘usns’, and all other mammals tally near the bottom of the identified species list with around 7,000. Here’s a small collection of game-cam vid clips and pics of our buggy, feathered, and furry feral neighbors found roaming our digs yesterday.

Great Blue Heron

Hummingbird (look quickly)

Hen Turkey

Curious Bubba

I.C.U.

All this got me to a-musing about Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Although it’s reported he never took the test, Charlie’s I.Q was estimated to be 160, 20 points above genius level. I’m puzzled how such a smart dude proposed that beginning with just some primordial slime (where did that ooze come from anyway???), over eons of time, evolution remarkably produced the incredible diversity of species we have today, a smidgen of which are living right in my own backyard.

German-born physicist Albert Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity . . . you know, that elementary E=mc² equation that explains that mass and energy are the same physical entity which can be changed into each other . . . What???  Although it was never specifically determined, Albert’s I. Q. was estimated to be somewhere in the 160 -190 range. If I could’ve just grabbed that 30 point spread Kindergarten would’ve definitely been a lot easier 😊 

Two quotes of Einstein came to mind:

“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”

Given my limited intellect . . . perhaps somewhat attributable to the circumstance that my mother T-boned a trolley car when she was nearly 9 months pregnant with me (I’ve been slightly off-track ever since) . . . I’m going with Albert and ditching the Slime theory for the Divine theory for the diversity of life as stated in the first 5 words of my Abba’s perpetual best seller . . .

“In the beginning God created . . .”

Genesis 1:1

Be Blessed, and . . .

Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best is Yet to Come!