Where Do You Originate, Tree?

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“So did you just happen, or were you created?” I asked the giant pine.At first, there was only silence. I sat still under the conifer that stood on the top of the hillside and overlooked a brook that flowed from a spring somewhere upstream.I began to sense the world around me. I heard the brook flowing across the rocks below. I heard the birds calling to one another in the branches of the trees around that brook. I heard a breeze blowing the leaves on those trees. I felt the pine needles under my fingertips and smelled the fresh pine scent of the pine needles.A realization enveloped me. The answer was in ecology. Every living thing was dependent upon every other living thing for survival.I noticed the moss on the north side of the pine. I reached out to feel its spongy fragile texture. How could moss grow if it did not have the tree to shade it? The moss needed the tree, just as the tree needed the carbon dioxide from the birds and the birds needed the oxygen from the plants. This couldn’t have just happened. There had to be intelligent design involved.I realized that what I was experiencing wa

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s not the close-mindedness of religion, but a mind-expanding answer from the universe.A few years later, I learned that it says in the Bible in Romans 1:20 (NKJV), “God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” This was indeed the case for me.Over the years, scientific facts have verified this paradigm for me. When studying a living cell, I learned that it wasn’t just a blob of tissue. It was a living being with intricacies beyond my understanding. More is known about the cell today than was known when I first asked the question.A simple cell is not so simple after all. A so-called simple fern has twice as many chromosomes as I do. The inert can’t become living. A spark of life had to originate from another living being or be duplicated from another living being. Life has never been recreated in a laboratory, no matter how we try. Even GMO material has to originate from a living source. Life begets life.As I write this and recount this memory, my soul fills with joy. I am extremely grateful that the tree at Summit opened my eyes to the reality of intelligent design.</article></body>

Did it just happen or were you intelligently designed?

Where did the pine originate? Photo by Voicu Apostol on Unsplash

When I was fifteen, I remember learning in ninth-grade science class about evolution. At the time, in the state where I lived, they taught evolution, but they also taught that the earth was created by a Creator. The side-by-side comparison did nothing but confuse me. I decided that I would go to the source and ask nature. I would go ask the tree that I called Summit.

I had a favorite place that I liked to go which I called Summit. Summit was a gigantic pine tree that was so big I could sit under its branches and meditate on my day’s events. On that particular day, I contemplated the origins of the world around me. Did it just happen or did a superior being exist who created all of it?

“So did you just happen, or were you created?” I asked the giant pine.

At first, there was only silence. I sat still under the conifer that stood on the top of the hillside and overlooked a brook that flowed from a spring somewhere upstream.

I began to sense the world around me. I heard the brook flowing across the rocks below. I heard the birds calling to one another in the branches of the trees around that brook. I heard a breeze blowing the leaves on those trees. I felt the pine needles under my fingertips and smelled the fresh pine scent of the pine needles.

A realization enveloped me. The answer was in ecology. Every living thing was dependent upon every other living thing for survival.

I noticed the moss on the north side of the pine. I reached out to feel its spongy fragile texture. How could moss grow if it did not have the tree to shade it? The moss needed the tree, just as the tree needed the carbon dioxide from the birds and the birds needed the oxygen from the plants. This couldn’t have just happened. There had to be intelligent design involved.

I realized that what I was experiencing was not the close-mindedness of religion, but a mind-expanding answer from the universe.

A few years later, I learned that it says in the Bible in Romans 1:20 (NKJV), “God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” This was indeed the case for me.

Over the years, scientific facts have verified this paradigm for me. When studying a living cell, I learned that it wasn’t just a blob of tissue. It was a living being with intricacies beyond my understanding. More is known about the cell today than was known when I first asked the question.

A simple cell is not so simple after all. A so-called simple fern has twice as many chromosomes as I do. The inert can’t become living. A spark of life had to originate from another living being or be duplicated from another living being. Life has never been recreated in a laboratory, no matter how we try. Even GMO material has to originate from a living source. Life begets life.

As I write this and recount this memory, my soul fills with joy. I am extremely grateful that the tree at Summit opened my eyes to the reality of intelligent design.