Random Chance? Star Dust? God?

Maybe I'm just dense, but the first time I studied biology I somehow missed how excruciatingly detailed DNA and the genetic code are. Sure I learned about the double helix, and how no DNA is exactly the same (except in identical twins), and that our whole genetic makeup is derived from our DNA. What I didn't realize is that that double helix repeats, and repeats, and repeats, to form a super coil, and the super coils form chromosomes, and chromosomes are in the nucleus of EVERY SINGLE CELL IN OUR BODY!!!      When I was reviewing it the other day it hit me like brick wall, and I reread the page 3 times just to wrap my tiny brain around how awesome, and epic, and marvelously choreographed the whole process is!!

After I had that astounding revelation, my next thought was, how can people think that this all happens by random chance? I mean come on people! We are the most complex life forms on this planet and we didn't even know about DNA until about the 1960s! How on earth do we think that all of this came together by happenstance? The odds of just one protein chain forming on its own are incredible, and for us to think that every living thing, from amoebas to humans, just happened to come together from star dust, or an oozing slime pit, or a big explosion, is just mind blowing! I don't under stand how anyone with a brain in their head can look out on this amazing planet, at our complex solar system, at ourselves, and not see in it the handy work of a master Creator.

While I am studying I am reading over, and over, and over the whole process of gestation, and it never ceases to amaze me. To think that every person started as a single cell with 46 chromosomes, and over the relatively short period of nine months becomes a living, breathing human being is astounding! Looking at the process, and seeing how complex it is, and how easily it could go wrong, yet rarely does, I can't comprehend how someone could think it's just a coincidence.

When you see a baby born so perfectly human, yet oh soo tiny, and you know the journey it has made in the previous nine months, how can you say that there is no God? No master Creator?


-Megan








 

Life? Choice? Baby? Pregnancy?

Have you ever read a pregnancy book? I'm currently working my way through 21 of them as part of my midwifery course. And as I've read I've been amazed at the dichotomy and duplicity of every author's vocabulary when it comes to the baby. On one page they will tell you that it is so wonderful to do a sonogram and see the heartbeat, or to see how the baby is definitely a tiny human, and then turn right around and say that if such and such is wrong (downs syndrome, or other defects) the "pregnancy" can be terminated! It is mind blowing to think that in our country right now you can have an abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation! Most people have already felt the baby move by that time, and yet it's legal to "terminate" the "pregnancy" if you so chose? They can't even say that it's just tissue then, they cant even use that argument for a 12 abortion! Babies look distinctly human by the 12th week and if you do an ultra sound you will see a heartbeat and get to see the baby moving around even though you can't feel it yet.

And the thought of killing a baby just because there is "something wrong" sickens me. How would it be if went around killing all of the born people that we thought had something wrong with them? Oh that right that already happened in Germany under Hitler and the whole world thought it was WRONG!! But it's just fine to kill that unborn, though no less alive, baby because it has and extra chromosome or isn't formed just the way you want it? And woman's choice? That woman made a choice to sleep with that guy and now you can face the consequences like a woman! In the case of rape you didn't make that choice but it's not that baby's fault either and you shouldn't kill it just because it's daddy is a worthless piece of slime sucking scum. Even if you can't raise the baby there are hundreds of couples who can't have children and would LOVE to adopt that little baby. It is a new life. Not a "choice"

Building on that, I think our society's definition of life is way off. I believe that life starts at conception, others believe that it starts at birth, however let's define life with death. Clinical death occurs when the heart stops beating and the person is then pronounced dead. By law of opposites life should be defined by when there is a heartbeat. That happens at 6 weeks! So you can argue that life doesn't start at conception, but it sure as heck starts long before birth, and it is legal to take that life until the 24th week.

 It saddens me to see people kidding themselves and others by referring to that life, that baby, as just a "pregnancy" when you want to "terminate", a.k.a. kill, it.

Thus ends my rant for the day.