And Yet, There Is No God
Last night the family hauled off for one last summer fling and decided to go see this family flick called "March of the Penguins." It's not the normal funny cartoon you go see these days but rather it's a documentary done by the fine folks at National Geographic.
Suffice to say the movie had brilliant cinematography. Hauling around the South Pole showing you sights you've never seen, not to mention seeing them 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, is striking.
It's also a funny movie, too...even though nobody says anything except an actor doing the narration. Let's face it, shall we? Everything about penguins is funny...and watching a waddling flightless bird slide on the ice and fall on his butt is pretty funny. It works on SO many levels.
And the story is miraculous as far as nature goes. Basically it's the story of how penguins will waddle 70 miles to get to their mating place, choose a mate, reproduce and then each partner will take turns waddling back and forth to the ice break to get food out of the ocean. They battle the elements. They battle predators. They keep the baby penguins off the ice so they don't get cold. They have a reserve food trough in their throats so if the spouse is a day or two late waddling back with a full belly of food they have something in reserve for their child. The ice melts so the walk gets shorter and the babies can be left alone on the ice. It's all pretty amazing...and breathtakingly shown.
All the while, Morgan Freeman is doing the narration, starting many times with, "Nobody knows how or why they..." and finishes with something like, "all arrive at the same point, at the same time of year, nearly on the same day."
Not to sound trite, but the whole film was evidence that there is a God in heaven who built them that way. So if I were doing the narration, I would've said, "While it remains a mystery to mankind, the reason they show up annually at the exact same location on nearly the same day with a special food trough in their throats with a day's ration inside JUST IN CASE the mom is a day or two late is because there is a God in heaven who is so creative and innovative that He provides even for the baby penguins who can't provide for themselves and even if humans never know about it, His glory shouts from the ice breaks at the South Pole."
Yep, that's what I would've said.
Last night the family hauled off for one last summer fling and decided to go see this family flick called "March of the Penguins." It's not the normal funny cartoon you go see these days but rather it's a documentary done by the fine folks at National Geographic.
Suffice to say the movie had brilliant cinematography. Hauling around the South Pole showing you sights you've never seen, not to mention seeing them 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, is striking.
It's also a funny movie, too...even though nobody says anything except an actor doing the narration. Let's face it, shall we? Everything about penguins is funny...and watching a waddling flightless bird slide on the ice and fall on his butt is pretty funny. It works on SO many levels.
And the story is miraculous as far as nature goes. Basically it's the story of how penguins will waddle 70 miles to get to their mating place, choose a mate, reproduce and then each partner will take turns waddling back and forth to the ice break to get food out of the ocean. They battle the elements. They battle predators. They keep the baby penguins off the ice so they don't get cold. They have a reserve food trough in their throats so if the spouse is a day or two late waddling back with a full belly of food they have something in reserve for their child. The ice melts so the walk gets shorter and the babies can be left alone on the ice. It's all pretty amazing...and breathtakingly shown.
All the while, Morgan Freeman is doing the narration, starting many times with, "Nobody knows how or why they..." and finishes with something like, "all arrive at the same point, at the same time of year, nearly on the same day."
Not to sound trite, but the whole film was evidence that there is a God in heaven who built them that way. So if I were doing the narration, I would've said, "While it remains a mystery to mankind, the reason they show up annually at the exact same location on nearly the same day with a special food trough in their throats with a day's ration inside JUST IN CASE the mom is a day or two late is because there is a God in heaven who is so creative and innovative that He provides even for the baby penguins who can't provide for themselves and even if humans never know about it, His glory shouts from the ice breaks at the South Pole."
Yep, that's what I would've said.
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