At church last Sunday, the visiting priest, gave a homily that has been lingering in the back of mind. He lectured on how great thinkers such as Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Darwin, etc, influenced our society and how America was such a "problem-solving" and competition orientated society. Einstein was the only person of these three who kept faith in God. His view was that the advancement in science brought him closer to God. Perhaps, by understanding the world around you, you can understand yourself, and come closer to God.

It is true that this world is the survival of the fittest. If you watched the nature documentaries on the discovery channel you will see one predator being gobbled up by another, and babies being swallowed without a chance to survive. I heard that fish only have like a 5 second memory span, but should that make a difference? Beings feel, feel pain, feel pleasure, and think. Do fish think? They think enough about avoiding being eaten. Now intelligence is relative. I compare myself to a fish or a squirrel. My cognitive reasoning by far exceeds the fish, but we share mortality, and not comprehending fully the world around us, and even ourselves. We're stupid. We don't understand who we really are, and the world around us. I've heard most people talk about animals and insects as if they didn't have a soul. The nervous system of some simple insects, can be modeled with computer circuit logic. With our current technology, we can build minature robots that act, and think like insects. But in a 100 years from now, will the technology exist to model the human behavior and thought processes?

What are we, and why are we so complex? We should decay into simpler things, not complex. Instead, we evolve. Life evolves. Change is supposed to be good. Right?

Survival of the fittest, beings in nature with the best improvements in their biology over time will outlive, and outmate others without the advantages. I then consider the Darwin law in our society, which has racial and gender bias, and other factors to complicate the modeling. Those beings who are best fit with intelligence and health will survive, where as the less fit, might be subject to abject poverty and ill-health. In prehistory, humans who could not outsmart and or outrun, were eaten by predators like lions and wolves. Humans evolved into a smarter, more physically fit species. Now in today's society if you're not smart enough to get those middle-class and upperclass jobs or physically fit enought to get those multi-million dollar sports contracts, you fall below the ranks of others into poverty. When you're not economically fit, you develop disadvantages, such as inadequate health care, not enough to eat, and misery. Production of children is frowned upon as an increased economic burden to your already tight budget. The wealthy now have the advantages. Now I consider the future and genetic engineering of humans. If this process is marketed, like most everything else in America, only the wealthy will have access to this technology. People will start breeding "super-humans" that defy expectations. There will be a conflict between those humans who do not have the advantages of the super-humans with those who are super-humans. They might look upon their ancestors as we look at fish, brainless, and inadequate. They might exterminate the problem humans like we would exterminate a pack of wild pigs running freely and wildly around the neighborhood, and feel no guilt. They are, the best beings on earth, then why should they let the animals (lesser humans) destroy their world and resources. We don't let animals destroy our neighborhoods. We lead them out of sight and out of mind.

Which brings me back to my thought. Super-humans will never fully understand the universe and God, because our brains are limited, it is the spirit that will reach God. No matter how much you try to think about God, your thoughts probably wander elsewhere in confusion, you scratch your head, and can't comprehend it. Your eyes stare blankly at the walls, and start to wonder what to do next. If you learn something about your environment, maybe like E= mc^2, you might feel a bit of pride that you know something else more that the fish doesn't. You're starting to understand the world around you, and maybe, you'll understand yourself a little better. But have you just ever starred into the mirror and not recognized the fleshed animal before you? How many of you have stepped into church and felt something warm inside, or after praying and asking for God's love, have felt like someone was hugging your soul? Ths warm feeling does not originate from the brain but from inside your body, it radiates all over. We are like actual children who do not yet understand how the world around them works, but we do understand the warmth and love of their parents, and long for it more.

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