Yes, I know…crazy, crazy title for a blog. But you just wait…there may be more in this blog than what you automatically think when you read the title….
The other day me and the Mr. plunkered down onto the couch and turned on the tv. just in time to catch one of the most interesting shows I have ever seen. Documentary, really. It was called “Did Darwin kill God?”. Intrigued in what the discussion was going to be about, I listened with open ears.
I’m not one to preach god, I’m not one to turn to and ask god for help when I’m in trouble, and I’m most definently not one to even believe it god, really. I went to Sunday school growing up. I remember having a blast catching the little orange bus outside of my house all the way to the other side of the block where the church was located. I remember learning Johnny Appleseed and other wonderful songs that I still find myself singing to this very day. And I remember the excitement I had within when I got my very first Bible for showing up to all of the classes…it had my name written in the cover and everything. Sunday School only lasted so long before my parents divorced and things got turned upside down in my household. Having three sisters, two older and one younger, there was some normality in my home…we really didn’t even know what was going on. One day Mama was there, and the next day she wasn’t…
It wasn’t until my Papa met his new girlfriend (and now wife) that we began to go back to a church like setting…if you ask most of the kids that went there (who are all now adults), we would easily tell you that it was not, infact, a church, but a cult. Maybe that was the way all churches were…sing songs here, pick a happy card there, special guest comes and talks about a god-like story at the end. Us kids didn’t get to see most of it, other than the songs and the card picking…we were always sent to the back room where we did crafts and other fun stuff. Fun stuff to keep us out of the room with the bigger people. All we knew is that when it was time to go back and see our parents, they were always crying, and always seemed so forlorn. It was also interesting the way that no one seemed to have friends or lovers outside of the group. During the few years we went we attended many weddings from couples that met at the “church”. Six that I can remember…and that is not including my Papa and step-mama. Alittle odd…I think so.
That is about the jist of my religous up-brining unless you want to include my grandparents who would rather give all of their money (and they have…or should I say had, tons) to Billy Graham. Asshole. My Grandfather even dis-owned his own daughter because she fell in-love with another woman. Being that the last time we all met up, it turned into a nasty fight of my Grandpa yelling at me something about how wrong it is for men to “bum-hole” eachother. Something no grand-daughter should ever hear out of her Grandfathers mouth. Wrong on so many levels I don’t know where to begin, so we just won’t go there 🙂
So we’re watching the show and the host began to talk about Gemini, and how the Bible munked up in it. How the first part explains how God created earth, and animals before man…then later on in the Bible it talks about how God made Adam before any of this… I have to say, I wasn’t in a rut about it….I mean, the Bible is how many years old? It was transcribed, re-written, and then transcribed again. Ofcourse things were going to get all bent out of order, ofcourse things were going to be written one way somewhere, and another way in another place. It was inevitable for that to happen. What I don’t understand is how could anyone who believes in God deny one of the most amazing, wonderful, scientific and realistic discoveries of any time ~ the dinosaurs.
You can’t just write them off and pre-tend they didn’t exist. You can’t say that they came after God and all of his supposive creations. You can’t say that they are all mythical and only alive in stories. They were here, and they were here before God, before Mary, before any rising and shiny bright star. There is more proof that dinosaurs existed once-upon-a-time then there is proof that God ever existed. Between fossils, bones, full skeletons, preserved DNA, and even full dinos found in ice and hardened lava…they can not be denied.
Yet…where were they when God made the earth? What happened to them in the Bible? Now I get it…who wants to read a story about the man who created earth, then was eaten by a T-Rex. I got it…but if you are going to make up a story as in-depth as the Bible, then why not have the dinosaurs join in. Why not say he “made” the dinosaurs then realized one day “okay buddies…your time is up. I need a change, I want more of me walking around this earth and less of you”. Why not have included them into the whole thing?
So you see, I have some up-bringing with religion (though I find most of it not for me…okay, all of it), I have many family members from grandparents to siblings who believe in God and rely on his “powers” for their own happiness. I am not against the idea of God, or Jesus, just because I am not a believer…but what I really don’t get is how you can just write off the dinosaurs like they never walked on our earth, and if you do believe in God, then how do you justify the Bible saying without words that they never existed…and then still believe that the Bible is truth? Do you not question what you are reading, what you learn, and what you are taught? or do you just roll with the punches because it’s al you know? I know I have read in some places that it was God’s way of testing us…um. Who the heck are you to test us when you don’t know us? That reminds me of when my mans friend (ten years ago) asked me if he could feel my breasts because he hadn’t felt a real pair in a long time. When I told my Mr. about it, his response was that his friend was just testing me to see if I would give in, or if I was a good woman for him. So not cool. No one deserves to be tested, and if you really have any belief in what is around you, you wouldn’t need to test them in the first place. Not only that, but with everything that man does in the world (and yes, women too), you would think he would be testing us on alot more than just our beliefs in what is around us….or is that what it was. He knew he was just a regular man who was able to suck people into his beliefs…and therefor had to create a myth about why everything around him existed. You can’t create fossils…you can’t create dinos frozen in time in a block of ice…you can’t create the DNA that they have found, from dinosaurs, and then call it false. DNA says it all…a real genetic code, the building blocks of dinosaur life, and it’s been found. I would love to see him explain that one.
Really, when it comes down to it….Gemini did not kill God, Darwin did not kill God, the dinosaurs are most definitly the ones who killed God.