11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Deacon Robert Banet
What’s that you’re reading, Charlie? Is it what I think it is?
What do you think it is?
A textbook. Biochemistry, it looks like. What are you doing reading that?
I’m fascinated by it. Take that double helix. You know what I’m talking about?
Yes, I seen pictures of it. I’ve even seen video of what it does.
It’s amazing.
Yeah, that twisted ladder, when it splits, pieces of it join other pieces and form a new entity. And you know what?
Go ahead. I know you’re dying to tell me.
Many scientists believe all that came about without any direction, without any designer, without any plan.
Yes, I believe you’re right. Most of the big names in science, those who hold the most prestigious university chairs are non-believers.
Yes, and that really knocks my socks off. They have to believe in chance. Chance is what brought all that mysterious magic about. Man, that takes a lot of faith.
You know, Charlie, I believe you’re right. And it takes a lot more faith than I have faith in God. Faith in God is comparatively easly. But you have to hand it to them.
How’s that?
That strong of a faith is something we could imitate. And you know, one of the discoverers of DNA is a sort of believer.
What?
Yes, Sir Francis Crick believes that after all there
is a designer. The designer planted the seeds of life from another planet and sent them to earth.
No kidding? But then who designed life in the first place?
That I don’t know. Sir Francis did not care to answer that question.
I thank God I received the gift of faith at Baptism.
You can say that again, Charlie.
Thank God for the Faith!