Dear, Richard Dawkins

Dear,
Richard Dawkins

My first word to you was a bit of a joke. Just to show you how much you don't know. The answer to the question, I'm not entirely sure. But, I imagine you having asked it... What is the limit to the universe? Is the Planc length the limit of measurements? And if it is, Pi cannot be calculated past the negative thirty-fifth exponent. Or, maybe, it'd be used as a ratio to align quarks. Etc., Etc. Etc. Maybe the infinity of Pi would be something like a ratio calculating the negative space.

So be it, I'm not a particle physicist. I do, however, like to learn Quadratic equations and Euclidean Geometry on my own.

With that, I'm going to say I believe evolution, and the earth were a sphere, and that the earth is old. I don't know. I cannot know. I have faith---because it seems like scientists wouldn't lie to me about it---that these things are true. However, I have more faith in there being justice, goodness, righteousness, and even evil. I have more faith in the intrinsic value of love than I do any science. I would sooner believe that the rockets we use to travel in space are doctored with a trick window, than stop believing in the intrinsic goodness of love. If you asked me to choose between science and it, I'd be the first to say that the Earth is Flat, 6,000 years old and evolution is a mythology atheists tell themselves.

It is because I observe moral truths in the patterns of human behavior that are intrinsic in us. And I don't think God was lying to us when he made the Earth. Rather, it had been my understanding of Genesis that it is a story. Meant to convey a meaning that man has an inherent conscience, and also that man should rest one day a week. And also that God did in fact create the universe. 

What's amazing about a story is its metaphor. They are more important than the literalness of the story. However, I think Genesis did happen literally, and if you'd care to listen---since Christians don't listen, will you care to listen?---that God created the Earth the same way I have written my first novel. Should you catalog the literal way I wrote the novel, you'll find that different parts of it were written out of order. The middle was written first, the beginning was written second, and the end was written at different times. It would be no less true, that I had written the work that way. It's just not the way my characters would have observed it. Erin and Marc---at first---were to have a whirlwind romance and instantly fall in love. But, as I wrote the story, they did not fall in love instantly, but organically. Literally detailing how I wrote that book, it would be completely out of order with how the book is written. That is how God would have created the Earth.

And we know God created the Earth because there are patterns in human behavior that reflect the Bible's principles. There are morals simply laid down by Christ which are perfect---and your selfish gene cannot compete with it. It is exactly the fact that human beings aren't selfish. They are now because significant damage has been done to them over the past several---I truly don't know the time scale to give you, but it's been seen in my breif life. However long I've lived, and however many epochs I've lived to see. It is precisely that I remember love. Maybe you're too young to remember it. You very well might be. Maybe I remember ancient Rome and Babylon... Maybe I remember the years Christ preached and taught. I remember love. I remember how it satisfied me. I remember all the good, and I've slowly been steeped in the evil. Which, if you ask me, comes from all sources. I've dealt with bad eggs from all walks of life. I've been kicked out of churches, I've been taught Feminism from the pulpit, I've been taught Global Warming in Sunday school, I've been taught that morals are a choice--- It's those things which I rebel against. I can't help it. Because I know intrinsically that they are false. That man does not get to choose right and wrong, and that men are not selfish. Because I remember when men weren't selfish, and they were far more satisfied than we are today.

It's funny, because I've seen a lot over my years. The most happy I've ever seen civilization was when there were no atheists. When everyone was Christian. You could ask just about anyone, and they'd tell you God exists. Everyone believed. I can't tell you when that was... Only that it was. I can't tell you when it existed in time or space, or even whether it still exists, but it happened to exist. But, the world changed very rapidly in my short lifespan. It went from a place that was nearly paradise---safe, and you could feel comfort. To a very sordid world where you couldn't trust anyone with your own grandmother. And the only thing that has changed is belief in God's existence. Nothing else. Not the virus---though, religion tends to help people cope with those things. Not the iPhone---though it has made people significantly more selfish. There's a whole other world where I came from. One that is disappearing, and I remember it being far better than the one we have today. And that world, Christ reigned on everyone's heart.

And with that being said, all my happiest moments, all my goodness, everything I value is wrapped up in the person of Jesus Christ. And all my worst is wrapped up with people who don't believe, or could be summed up as Pharisees and Sadducee. Christians who simply don't get it.

It's not important whether Genesis happened, only that Jesus did. There are a thousand and one reasons for me to believe on Christ. And the evidence, I have to say, is overwhelming. As Christ said, "There will come a day when you will long to see the days of the Son of Man. And Lo, that day is shortly coming." 

Plainly put, Mr. Dawkins, you're wrong.