Evolution News: Jesus and Pegasus and Evolution

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Evolution is natural. It is Nature, Herself. Evolution is creation. Accidental, incidental and deliberate all at the same time. Many people trying to figure out life on earth can't focus on all three forces at once very easily. The director of the Human Genome Project, has written a book on how Jesus and God must exist because nature can be beautiful. So I ask, why isn't that man worshipping Mother Nature, then? Or better still, Pegasus? He and Jesus just might have a lot in common.

Collins claims it was all due to shock and awe.

According to Collins, belief in the God of Abraham is the most rational response to the data of physics and biology, while “of all the possible worldviews, atheism is the least rational.” Taken at face value, these claims suggest that “The Language of God” will mark an unprecedented breakthrough in the history of ideas. Once Collins gets going, however, we realize that the book represents a breakthrough of another kind.

After finding himself powerless to detect any errors in the philosophizing of C.S. Lewis (a truly ominous sign), Collins describes the moment that he, as a scientist, finally became convinced of the divinity of Jesus Christ:

On a beautiful fall day, as I was hiking in the Cascade Mountains … the majesty and beauty of God’s creation overwhelmed my resistance. As I rounded a corner and saw a beautiful and unexpected frozen waterfall, hundreds of feet high, I knew the search was over. The next morning, I knelt in the dewy grass as the sun rose and surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Nature is very beautiful. Even when She is very destructive, it is still beautiful in a most scary way. Tsunami, volcanoes blowing up, meteor strikes, forest fires, the violent, destructive face is just as amazing as the cute face, the leaping lambies in spring, pretty flowers, smiling babies. Evolution has hardwired our minds to find nature beautiful. Or not?

We are a very destructive, bloody species. Even when we want to enjoy nature, we have to twist Her around. When we tamed animals and plants, we morph them relentlessly into all sorts of shapes and colors and sizes. Look at dogs, our oldest breeding project! Every possible size, color, configuration, shape of head, shape of body, fur type or lack of fur, we turned honest wild wolves into the monsters for our own sense of godhood.

Humans that look at Mother Nature and then declare they must, due to Her beauty, believe there is this manipulative god working behind Her back to produce the wild variety of living things are insane. And stupid. If Nature is God then it is a SHE for the entire premise of Nature is of course, to reproduce and to bear more offspring which is a distinctly feminine activity.

True, male organisms sometimes participate in this business but it is suffiently rare as to qualify as a miracle. In order to get them to do anything, Mother Nature evolved lust and the desire to have sex with the mothers.

Back to scientists seeing 'beautiful scenes' and then deducing this means there is a violent male god who likes to annihilate all living things except for a handful of critters on one boat---this is so batty, it really disturbs me. If Collins was walking along and saw a father standing idly by while his only son dies a hideous death and then concludes that the Bible god is a great guy and a fine father and Jesus' death was a great thing, whoopee! Then I could say, he had a revelation.

Seeing a frozen waterfall has nothing to do with believing a god killed his only son so we could choose to go to heaven or be sent to hell if we don't please the executed son-god. Indeed, it screams quite the contrary!

I have an excuse for my own beliefs. When I was hit by lightning as a child, I had to grasp at something to save my mind and it happened to be the flying horse I used to love looking at at Yerkes Observatory which is covered with mosaics, paintings and sculptures of wonderful Victorian invention. I was lucky in this notion because Pegasus not only carries lightning bolts around and can fly pretty high as well as fast, he loves to graze on mountain tops, drink from his cool pool he made with his hooves and his best friends are the Graces who love singing, dancing, history, music, art and science!

I love all those things too! Since He and I have the same likes and dislikes, we enjoy Parnassus together, so to speak. In honor of him, I have a cranky Austrian horse, Sparky, we live on a mountain where I get hit by lighting periodically and we have this 300 gallon stock tank which is Sparky's pool and the chickens fly all around us which irritates Sparky but then maybe he will be elevated into God status and fly, too.

I find it most amusing that the ancient Greeks took Pegasus, one of the oldest Middle Eastern gods, much older than Allah or Zeus or El ohim (funny, that name means 'multiple gods'!) and gave him the best part of Heaven! Namely, the comely lasses who love to do civilized, fun things. Jesus is interested only in getting to choose who goes to Heaven where Pegasus lives and who goes to hell where all the madcap, angry gods live.

Heh.

I bet Jesus sits at the Gates of Death, pouting. 'I hear singing. I bet they are dancing, reading books, talking about science and kissing,' He complains. 'And I have to sit here, judging people.' This puts him in such a snit, he arbitrarily sends the next million souls to hell just for the hell of it.

Actually, whenever I question Christians closely about this business of judging people and sending them to hell, most Christians seeking to save my soul from Pegasus and his fun times on Mt. Olympus, get all squirrely. They can't really picture Jesus at work! They have some fuzzy pictures of Jesus sitting there, smiling at them but they can't see him as a thinking, acting entity! If so, they would quail with fear.

After all, if he is even semi-human, his main concern would be to fill Heaven with people he gets along with. Since I am assuming he will hate spending an eternity with a bunch of nasty people who are pro-torture-pro death-penalty, I would expect his main line of questioning to be about that topic. 'Were you for the death penalty? Do you think dissidents should be tortured? Do you hate hippies with long hair and beards who go around the place, saying goofy things?'

I imagine this is exactly how Jesus would act. This would mean, Heaven is filled with a bunch of peace freaks who like to drink wine, sing folk songs, weave hemp, and in general, act like the young ladies Pegasus keeps in his own pasture! Even paintings of Heaven look more like Sparky's idea of a nice pasture. After all, Jesus was born in a stall! Perhaps he is a stand-in for Pegasus!

What is really funny is the people pretending to love Jesus often try very hard to kill any understanding about Nature and evolution. They have this devilish desire to deny this force even as humans toy with evolution directly via not only breeding programs but also genetic engineering and killing off many life forms, making them extinct!

Here is a typical example of how humans, playing god, screw up thanks to evolutionary forces we refuse to understand fully.

By WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 35 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Ore. - Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild, posing one of the first threats of agricultural biotechnology escaping from the farm in the United States, a new study says.

Creeping bentgrass was engineered to resist the popular herbicide Roundup to allow more efficient weed control on golf courses. But the modified grass could spread that resistance to the wild, becoming a nuisance itself, scientists say.

"This is not a killer tomato, this is not the asparagus that ate Cleveland," said Norman Ellstrand, a geneticist and plant expert at the University of California, Riverside, referring to science fiction satire about mutant plants.

'Bent grass' sucks. Ask Pegasus. It can't even be grazed easily by sheep and we know Heaven is filled with lambies because Jesus is the Lamb of God. Therefore, he hates bent grass! Pegasus can't chomp on it either, so both gods hate bent grass and here we are, spreading it all over kingdom come so we can roll little white balls on it! As I have posted in the past, many humans are attracted by the savannah nature of golf courses. So are Canadian geese. So I read in the news yesterday that humans can now hunt and kill Canadian geese on golf courses!

I suspect Jesus would object. Mother Nature certainly will be pissed off which is why Pegasus has permission to hit golfers with lightning bolts. I read in the news last month, this year a record number of golfers have been zapped by Pegasus! Neeeigh! Boom.

It is universally acknowledged that Gods=lightning bolts. So....God hates golfers! So why are we genetically engineering grass that only devil worshippers, aka, golfers, love? Doesn't that make us devils, too?

The head hurts thinking of all this which is why both Jesus and Pegasus recommend we drink lots of wine. Jesus' blood is wine, ask any priest! The Bacchae come to Parnassus to run riot, drunk, and have sex. Again, Pegasus' version of heaven matches my own nearly perfectly. Except the lightning bolts. I must discuss this with him. I know Sparky is careless with his hooves sometimes but really, both horses have to be more careful around me.

Ah, nature! Peace and love, everyone.

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Comments

I read the Harris "truthdig" article, and found this in one of his Collins quotes: "Science reveals that the universe, our own planet, and life itself are engaged in an evolutionary process."

So Collins may be somewhat loopy, but has not yet gone completely 'round the bend. As to his reasons... I don't know if they're really any worse than your reasons for Pegasus-worship. Both of you had some sort of very powerful experience.

And, you know what? Your drawing of 'Jesus' up there looks like some Hashbury freak, circa 1967. Christ - he looks like he's trippin'! Was that drawn from personal experience?

Posted by: JSmith | August 21, 2006 at 11:22 AM