I've been wanting to write about my Thanksgiving for several days now, and it seems like something I should do, just because everyone else with a blog that I read has published about their Thanksgivings, and it would be interesting to write about. But now that I have time to sit down and write it, I really don't want to. And it's interesting - I kind of feel like sitting down and writing it out and having people read it is kind of weird at the moment. Because mostly all of the people that read my blog are people that I interact with on a daily basis, so having you guys read my blog to find out how my Thanksgiving went, especially since it's almost a week past just feels weird to me. And since I've been thinking it out, it seems more suited for my journal than my blog. But now I'm just rambling.
Lately however, I've been thinking about how life is really complex. That sounds stupid to say, but I'm not talking about personal life issues, but life itself. As in DNA and molecules and organs and what drives us and motivates us. It's kind of ironic, the higher up you move in science, the less you want to deal with God. So many scientists and professors I know go crazy if you even dare to think of the fact that God is behind the workings of science. I guess they figure that as we advance in knowledge, we can explain away God because we can comprehend why things work in the natural world. Yet, the more I learn about God's creation and our human bodies, the more I am blown away by the complexity of it all and I am driven to stand in awe of such a great creator! He knows how all of this works! Even more - he DESIGNED it. That is so amazing to me. In the process of developing drugs to cure illnesses, it's amazing that there are so many medicines that we don't know how they act, we just know they produce a desired effect. And other drugs that we "rationally design" that have so many unintended side effects. And you can spend your whole life studying one particular protein in the body and still not know the complete picture and how it fits into normal or abnormal functions in the body.
I've also been thinking a lot about emotions as well. There are different thoughts on emotions, especially the extremes. Sometimes people say that emotions (especially the extreme ones) are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which I think can be true. Some people think that emotions are the figment of our imaginations, and it must be squashed and logic should take over. But no one really knows how or why we have the emotions we do. And why do certain physical triggers affect our emotions? Like hunger. Hunger is a physical thing, yet it can produce so many emotions. But if emotions are just all chemically based, then how can we reason our way out of things? Take the dark for instance. About a month or so ago, I was sitting in my living room, reading about Saddam Hussein's guilty verdict. It was dark out, and the subject was kind of weird and creepy. All of a sudden I hear a knock on the door, and this kid is there, in a leather jacket, and a stocking cap. I'm immediately in a state of apprehension, given all of that. It turned out to be okay, but I had to talk myself out of being scared. And I was able to mentally be okay, even when my body was still on alert. And emotions are further complicated by the fact that the same situation doesn't produce the same feelings all the time. Again, the dark. I can be in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night camping, and be at peace and comfortable. I can be in the woods in the middle of the night walking somewhere, and be totally freaked out. So that argues against a purely chemical basis for emotion. In that case, I'm left to the Creator and Designer to say that he made us somehow to be emotional beings. Even if people would say that the situations are not 100% the same because of subtle differences, I would still have to come back to the creator. Because if it all is 100% chemical balance, there would have to be billions of possible combinations depending on the scenario, the contextual clues, and the mix of hormones and chemicals. Can you imagine - humans only use about 10% of their brain capacity on learning and thought. Can you imagine all the stuff God needs to keep track of and how much greater He is? It just blows me away.
Reminds me of Psalm 8.
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