if you can read this, you're literate

while doing dishes in aforementioned posts, i had a thought about the old adage, "never stop asking 'why'."

most seem to interpret this phrase as keep asking why for as long as you live.

while that is well and good, and would create a ton of senior citizens asking why well past retirement, i believe there is a more child-like aspect to it.

i think we would get further if we kept asking why about the same issue.

let me give you an example.

why are trees rigid?
because they build up resistance while they're growing up to the wind constantly pushing on them.
why do they build up resistance?
because the more the wind blows, trees produce more and more chemicals that cause rigidity.
why do trees create chemicals?

and this is where i keep getting stuck...

the only answer i can come up with after about 4 "whys" is, "because that's how God wants it."

try the old "why is the sky blue?"
because when you combine the particles of the elements in our atmosphere, it creates blue.
why does that combination create blue?
because certain combinations create that certain shade of blue.
why does combining things change colors?
because that's how God wanted it.

i usually don't even get that far. i was stretching there.

i think we all need to be more childish (some people already are, but more childish in THIS aspect) and keep asking why over and over and over and over again.

if we all did that, i believe we would eventually realize that logically, there's an undeniable design to everything. we aren't here by accident, we didn't arrive here by millions of years of evolution.

we are created.

Posted by erichapman on Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 9:24 AM | Permalink