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• Over long time periods, a civilization resembles observations of bacteria in a Petrie dish, or animal species evolving over time, and we realize the same forces affecting simple life also dominate human civilizations.  We are not immune.   Natural forces, over long periods, quietly command the table. The changes that occur are invisible to short-li...
• Other names for these greater forces include entropy, chaos, or random chance.  And over time, the effects are far from random.  At a casino table, most bets have nearly equal chances of success on each single occasion.  But over many bets on many occasions, the
• casino always wins significantly.  The odds of random events favor the casino, or it would not stay in business.
• Many people, however, assume, if human reason is not in control, then God must command the table.  And, if God has directed the action, then the results must be as God desires.  We should surely not change what God desires.  “Whatever is, is right,” according to Alexander Pope, the great Renaissance poet.                However, this concept may be...
• Left out in Nature by God, we are susceptible to nature’s rules.  If we fail to learn those rules, then the reason given to us by God serves no purpose.  We must, then, learn nature’s rules.      These rules are rather simple.  Every organism violently eats other organisms to survive.  This is harsh capitalism, not a happy family meal, and not harm...