What Force Is This?
7/2/08 Reflections As I traveled this week into civilization, I was noticing the transition between the spring-blooming flowers and the summer-blooming flowers. It got me to wondering: What force is behind the blooming of wildflowers living at the start of my journey being exactly on time with the blooming of the wildflowers many miles away and in a different ecosystem than where I ended up?
If everything is subject only to Earth forces, which are different here than there, how do all the flowers come out at the same time? How do they know the exact moment to bloom? How do birds know when to nest, or animals to breed? Inanimate objects just react to physical forces, but living things, although heavily subject to physical forces, develop from within. But if you cut them open, you won’t find the gland or organ that provides the information as to what is best for them. It seems to me that this information has to come from something other than themselves or the physical forces that move them, otherwise you wouldn’t have the phenomenon of diversity of species mixed with similarity of behavior.
For instance, geese migrate and hummingbirds migrate – the physical forces scientists say regulate migratory behavior can change dramatically, but still one day geese and hummingbirds start to migrate, or to breed, or to nest. Cold or hot weather; dry in one place and flooded in another – one day all the red clover appears; one day the white clover. Each individual knows what to do and when to do it, no matter the change in their environment from one area to the next, or from one year to the next. Mosquitoes hatch in the millions and make life miserable for us; then one day at one hour, when the regeneration of the mosquito population is assured, the dragonflies appear like magic by the thousands to mop up unneeded mosquitoes, and we can be outdoors again.
Why is it more believable to assume there is scientific explanation for the unexplainable than to believe that God knows every one of His creatures perfectly and directs their comings and goings? Is human pride so powerful it must insist on any explanation other than God, for fear that it’s God directing us, rather than our own pitiful input, that makes the world go around? We didn’t create, and we don’t direct creation. Whatever natural or man-made forces we try to attribute to what we witness also had to be created in the first place. Every earthquake, flood, thunderstorm, tornado, hurricane, rogue wave, and drought should remind us of that, for these existed from the beginning, for reasons that aren’t dependent on us.
