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For me, personally, I have always loved nature.
I have found it captivating and breathtaking my entire life.
But once I came to the conclusion that my ideals were best suited to an atheist viewpoint nature became so much more incredible.
The massive trees, the outrageous insects, the fantastic beasts, and the thundering waterfalls; they weren’t the will of a divine being or a magical force unseen.
They just were.
Because science.
And how cool is that?
How cool is it that we don’t NEED almighty intervention or a powerful deity to get all of this?
All of these colors and emotions and all of the cosmos and every blade of grass in the ground and hair on your head is just because it is.
Because that’s just the way it evolved to be.
It is so incredibly logical and seemingly random and entrancingly gorgeous.
No one put the stars in the sky, no one painted the butterfly’s wings.
Nothing told the rain the fall, or taught the fishes how to swim.
From the beginning of time and everything science has just drummed on as it always will, doing whatever works the best and making countless unimaginable treasures and horrifying things that could wipe us out in an instant and maybe - probably; someday they will.
But that doesn’t fill me with doom as much as wonder.
I have this one life to live and I get to spend it mixed in this swirling mess of emotions and words and numbers and neutrons.
And I can learn the name of every element that makes up everything if I so wanted to.
I can learn about what makes the sun glow.
I can learn what makes the roses red.
I can unlock the mysteries of the universe because that’s what science is.
Science is the key to the mysteries of the universe.
What causes you to sneeze or what caused the dinosaurs to die out; where snow comes from, or how the seasons change; they aren’t unfathomable, unanswerable questions that we must leave up to an infallible spirit.
They are simply questions.
All of the unknown, the unexplainable, is merely a million, billion questions.
Questions whose answers are only as far away as we are willing to search for them.
I have found it captivating and breathtaking my entire life.
But once I came to the conclusion that my ideals were best suited to an atheist viewpoint nature became so much more incredible.
The massive trees, the outrageous insects, the fantastic beasts, and the thundering waterfalls; they weren’t the will of a divine being or a magical force unseen.
They just were.
Because science.
And how cool is that?
How cool is it that we don’t NEED almighty intervention or a powerful deity to get all of this?
All of these colors and emotions and all of the cosmos and every blade of grass in the ground and hair on your head is just because it is.
Because that’s just the way it evolved to be.
It is so incredibly logical and seemingly random and entrancingly gorgeous.
No one put the stars in the sky, no one painted the butterfly’s wings.
Nothing told the rain the fall, or taught the fishes how to swim.
From the beginning of time and everything science has just drummed on as it always will, doing whatever works the best and making countless unimaginable treasures and horrifying things that could wipe us out in an instant and maybe - probably; someday they will.
But that doesn’t fill me with doom as much as wonder.
I have this one life to live and I get to spend it mixed in this swirling mess of emotions and words and numbers and neutrons.
And I can learn the name of every element that makes up everything if I so wanted to.
I can learn about what makes the sun glow.
I can learn what makes the roses red.
I can unlock the mysteries of the universe because that’s what science is.
Science is the key to the mysteries of the universe.
What causes you to sneeze or what caused the dinosaurs to die out; where snow comes from, or how the seasons change; they aren’t unfathomable, unanswerable questions that we must leave up to an infallible spirit.
They are simply questions.
All of the unknown, the unexplainable, is merely a million, billion questions.
Questions whose answers are only as far away as we are willing to search for them.
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Overall Vision Originality Technique ImpactAlthough inspired and quite nice I find that your delivery method id odd. It is not bad, it is just odd. A mix it seems of poetry and facts stated in your own words. It could be better utilized if it was more to one side or the other. That being said it is unique in that same aspect. I do appreciate how you have worded this though. You have spoken your views in a way that is not offensive to any religious people but still delivers your point with a certain Fervor. I for one applaud you for making this and will be favoring it. But in the future I would recommend a bit more structure.