G Darwin! Help me find my family tree!

Allow me to continue where I left off. In my post titled 'G! Something keeps pulling me down!', I was writing about the force that causes pigs to gravitate to the dirt and the mud. I provided two examples of some cartoon episodes I recall watching during childhood:

1. Cleaned pig stays clean for some time but goes after the dirt and joyfully relishes the mud
2. Cleaned pig is mocked and ridiculed by a filthy pig because pigs are meant to be filthy

Pardon me if I offend you, but there seems to be some behavioral similarities between people (Christians and non-Christians alike) and pigs! People seem to have more in common with pigs than they do with chimpanzees (as some people tend to say). We might even have a gene or two in common with the pig, who knows!

"Everything matches up perfectly. The pig is genetically very close to humans." (Click link to read full article - NationalHogFarmer.com) OINK! OINK!

I bet some ladies would not object/dissent from this notion because of their past encounters with some "primates"!

As I noted in my first post (Why do I believe in God), I was brought up in the Christian faith and ended up turning my back on it in my teenage years. For a little more than a decade, all I ever did was seek after sinful pleasures... I was cleansed of my sins a number of times. These, however, were failed attempts at going back to a Christian life. My eyes were fixed on the pleasures of this world. For one reason or another, I always seemed to gravitate (little-by-little) towards the life I knew I did not want but at the same time craved.

Believe me when I tell you, I felt cleansed and forgiven every time I repented from my sins... I, wholeheartedly, confessed my shortcomings and looked to the Lord to help me. But... I was soon fighting my urges to continue in the path that I, at the time, had just confessed as bad, dirty, sinful, etc. After many years of back-and-forths, I started to doubt that I would ever be able to walk away from it...

So is there a law that defines this type of attraction? Certainly, a psychiatrist would send me to lay on a couch to speak about my past and find something about my childhood that impacted me so much that I ended up turning out to be the sinner that I am! (note the present tense). Some would say, finally! Some closure has come! I'm free!!! WRONG!

That could not be further from the truth. Science would have you believe just about anything... (hint: "theories") There is always "a scientific explanation" for "this", or "that" or "the other"... That's because science is very forgiving. How can they fail when their premises notes that a "hypothesis":

"consists either of a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena" [WikiPedia]

In other words, their theories are deemed "educated guesses". It reminds me of tech-support and 'Ctrl+Alt+Del'... Oops! just reboot and start over!

This is why God's existence is not a scientific hypothesis and/or theory! It is not a suggestion or a proposal... His word does not predict a possible outcome... instead, it foretells the inevitable outcome!

G! Something keeps pulling me down!

Did you ever feel as if you were fighting against something that you just could not seem to shake? I'm not speaking about the common flu.

There are certain forces that are not seen yet we know they are there; there is no denying it. Whether we believe in them or not the result is the same... they are just there. So, why do we believe in some of these forces? Why could we not defy them? Are laws meant to be broken? Or are they written on stone?

Newton's Law of Gravity is one that comes to mind:

"Newton's law of gravity defines the attractive force between all objects that possess mass. Understanding the law of gravity, one of the fundamental forces of physics, offers profound insights into the way our universe functions." (Andrew Zimmerman Jones)

So, is this the same law that keeps pulling me down? Or are there other forces in life that act in the same way? I remember once watching a cartoon episode; it was about a person (perhaps a farmer) that wanted to have a clean pig... so the pig was bathed and groomed. The pig kept "himself" clean for some time... then, of course, the episode continues with the pig's first encounter with dirt and mud! As soon as the pig sees it, a force so strong steps in and there goes the clean little pig! It runs with great joy towards the dirt and with great delight it jumps into the mud! There seemed to be a sense of comfort as the pig rolled in the mud. In a different episode, the same pig was once again "cleansed"... as the pig was walking through the farm a fellow "filthy" pig starts to mock the cleaned pig and ridicules "him" because pigs are meant to be filthy.

Sounds like the force that attracts pigs to dirt and mud could be a force similar to the one explained in Newton's law of gravity. But that begs the question, is the dirt and the mud attracted to the pig? Or, is there something at work within the pig that attracts it to the filthy mud? I believe it is the latter of the two. Newton's law of gravity states that two objects attract each other with a gravitational force (I'll spare you the details); but, in the case of the pig, the attraction seems to be one dimensional.

I have to say that sometimes, I feel and act like a pig! Do you?