The Miracle of Existence
Google Image The fact that the earth exists among the unimaginable vastness of the universe is nothing short of miraculous. And human reproduction – that each human female has about 300,000 eggs during the fertile period of her life and each male emission has about 300 million sperm – is a second miracle. “Thus,” writes Alan Lightman in a recent issue of The Atlantic magazine, “each conception contains about a hundred thousand billion different possible combinations of DNA. In other words, there are a hundred thousand billion unique and different human beings that could result from each procreation event.” Lightman, a physicist, writer and former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), writes that “being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck we will ever experience.” Stroke of Good Luck? It is, indeed, miraculous, but is it merely “a stroke of good luck?” Because we believers - through the combination of Scri...