bleechers's Blog

The National Geographic Channel is running a series titled “Six Degrees Could Change the World.” They endeavor to show how conditions on earth would change as the planet’s temperature increases. We are taken up one degree at a time until we reach six degrees warmer. The assumption, of course, is that the earth is warming and we are facing disaster because Americans refuse to use “earth bags” at the grocery store. However, I don’t want to address that tired topic here.

I am more concerned with the glaring illogic in holding to the idea that the earth’s ecosystem happened utterly and completely by accident while maintaining that it is currently in the most advantageous place it could be for life to thrive. The earth’s distance from the sun, the makeup of the atmosphere, the earth’s axis and rotation speed, the distance to the moon, the size of the moon, the magnetic field… I could for on for pages. All of this nailed to a tiny window of temperature.

The environment is an accident. Human beings are accidents. So why does any of this matter?

Well, a blog is no place to argue evolution (not for me anyway). I’m just baffled by people who believe that all humans are just accidents. We’re here for no reason, by no design, to accomplish nothing in particular. Each thought is merely a chemical reaction; a sort of odd “stimulus-response” reaction over which no one has any true control. And if life is merely an accident with no purpose, what does it matter what form it takes or if it takes any form at all? We are no different than moon dust. Why not "27 degrees could change the world?" Why does human survival matter? "Six" degrees assumes that human life is somehow important.

“Six Degrees Could Change the World” only affirms what I discovered years ago: the earth is an extremely complex biosphere that is a wonder to behold. It is no accident, it has a purpose and it has been designed.