Tim Sng

Still away, but still in touch with My First Love......

My mind drifts back to the question of the first man. Only two possibilities.....either man is man as he is from the very beginning or man is evolving.

If he is changing and evolving, then.....I conclude simply that there is no first man and no last man.....as he is a part of a continuing process from the speck of dust.....changing, evolving....from ameba to a more complex being....to a primate....[as Evolutionists would believe]...to a humanoid precursor.....to a missing link....to the first prototype of living man......evolving still....till now. That, to me is far fetched, if you read my earlier posts. Everything came from a speck? From ameba? To the cat, the dog, the human being?

I choose the production line approach.....the Daimsler, the Mercedes Benz, the Honda, the Toyota.......all came from one factory....with a big, big difference. The Manufacturere continues to make new models every now and then. I am not aware of a new model of man, being made by our Maker.

You guessed it!! I believe that everything must come from something ! Every complex item in existence has a mind, a creator, a maker behind it. Only thing, the Creator who made it all, stop producing since that beginning some time ago.....with a major difference. A mechanism was put into life, that makes it regenerate, reproduce, renew and continue being alive with the resilience it has.

Some species have disappeared - that's true, and some new ones are being discovered...that's also true.

But man, going back at least some thousand of years have been the same.

Intelligent, creative, versatile.....he and she has roamed the earth and produced a planet full of exciting things, amidst a complex of so-called nature that he has managed to unravel, understand and utilise.

For example, he produced power from splitting the atom, and invented electrictiy. He now understands radiowaves, microwaves, sound waves, magnetism, gravity, wind and water as sources of power, means of communication and more in a greater functional way. His invention of the computer, electronics and the camera, telephone is amazing!!!

What a species !!! His nearest cousin....the monkey remains miserably jumping from branch to branch. What a huge gap in development, for those who think....e v o l u t i o n.

I mean, seriously thinking.......how can it be??

Interestingly though, we belong to one species...white, black, yellow, brown......purple.....and yet, man fights each other and kills each other over race, religion, resources, ideology and more.

Man can be evil, destructive and cruel.......and even sick....when you think of pedophiles, and other blood-thirsty ones.

If there is no governing forces UPSTAIRS in the HEAVENLIES, the earth and man would be doomed, from the mad minds of mankind.

Think about that. If I may say, "Thanks be to God", even for those who do not believe in GOD, He is around monitoring the situation!!

What now? Well, there is still hope for easily half the globe believe in a Maker....more perhaps....but all the fighting and struggles against each other takes us no where nearer the Maker. And He will not be silent forever. It seems a long time....His Silence....but no , He does speak to many.

Tim

Man grew from napkins to spacecraft, never stopping to probe, explore, investigate, invent and innovate. With his mind, he has tried his best to go into the deepest oceans, climb the highest mountains, encounter the Artic and Antartica.....and gone off into outer space.

The sum total experience of man is phenomenal. He made the plane in 1903 and within a few decades hit the moon. He tested the first A-bomb, and was stunned by its devastation....but is still humbled by nature. The tsunami took 200,000 lives, the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, forest fires and typhoons continue to devastate....and

Man continues with his intelligent mind to create...the phone, the computer, the internet, the car.....and it is getting better and better and better....

Man has been around for some time now.....some 3 million years? That's what the anthropologists or archaelogist or scientists say. Maybe less, maybe more. We can only look back a few thousand years at the most.

Imagine a species of beings plonked down on planet earth, and allowed to breed and develop....some thousands of years ago - man, the Homo Sapien! Return some years later, in year 2008.....wow, what do you see?

Man faces great challenges......while still reigning supreme.

The pest....by the trillions from rats, worms to insects and the mircrobes.

Viruses after viruses kill millions....man survives, with its discoveries....vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral agents.

Vegetation - we destroy some and some threaten to destroy us. Allow weeds and creeping plants to grow and they will grow all over you. Chop of all the trees and we will be in trouble.

The environment....climatic disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis....and more to come.....we can only wait and watch

The animal kingdom....some we breed to eat, some we allow to grow wild.....generally under control by man.

The seas....a huge reservoir of food from fishes and endless source of water and great method to travel around the world, though rather slow.

Finally, fellow-men....fighting and killing each other for whatever reasons.

I conclude that man's worse visible enemy is himself....man against man. He made the bomb, the killer weapons, the powerful laser machines and more. Man is his worst enemy.

Man rules on Planet Earth!

No, we are not the biggest of all creatures. On land, we have the elephant, since the dinosaurs disappeared. We cannot contend with the lion, tiger, leopard, panther, puma, bison, even the hyena and a whole range of dogs either in terms of size or strength or ferociousness.

In the air, we are zero and can only admire the birds, especially the majestic eagle.

In the sea, we perish in hours without help, and are no match for the sharks, the whales and the giant squid.

Man is small, physically, and inefficient in air [zero] and in water....yet , we rule supreme.

With a mind like ours, we produce enough equipment and machines, to counter those great giants in the seas, and the big creatures on land, and the birds in the air.

Man rules supreme in so many ways.

I am getting closer to understanding myself!