On this Memorial Day, a $27 million dollar Creation Museum will open outside of Cincinnati. This new Garden of Eden will, according to the museum’s founder, Ken Ham, show the way things really were when God created the earth or in another word, we will find the dinosaurs living right alongside human beings.

Since evolution has prevailed creationism in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, the creationism consistently tries to disguise itself as the new age scientific theory. They have recruited hundreds of converted scientists and questioned about a hole in Darwinism and cosmology while a hole in the Creationism theory itself is as big as the universe.

They are relentlessly arguing the scientific body of evolution as a sham and in fact the earth was created 6,000 years ago despite all kind of evidence like dinosaurs’ fossils, the age of the universe that proves otherwise.

I consider myself as an atheist but different specie from the mainstream atheist. I still believe in miracle and life after death. I do believe in energy of the universe but that does not equal to a creator. When someone tries to point out that when miracle happens, it is conducted by God or in another word, every action or thing must have creator. But I always argue otherwise.

It is unconceivable, of course, for human being to accept the temporary non-existent state after we die (if you do not believe in reincarnation), and God is someone to fill that void. He is a heavenly father who, after the judgment day, will place us in his grand villa. Also, our commonsense tells us that everything we see, hear, feel and touch is created by someone, as we conclude that we are one of those things so we must be created as well, and God is the answer.

What about there is in fact no creator and prime-mover and life just manifests itself from emptiness and from our own collective consciousness. And miracles might happen from our own energy that we send out and is responded by the energy of the universe?

Perhaps, there are some times, with my own utmost logic and imagination; I debate to myself what makes more sense to me between the Creationism and Evolution. And I come to my own conclusion that although to believe in the beautiful story of Creationism does comfort me more than the dry evolution theory, it gives me more headaches. To believe in evolution, with all scientific evidence, world class technology and thousands of experiments, the only thing I have to answer myself is how life really begun. It might be a little bit unimaginable for life from a tiny one-celled organism living billions of years ago to become the most complex life as human form nowadays but that is why the evolution theory and evidence has supported this scientific ground. However, to believe in the Creationism, there are even more questions emerge. Firstly the age of the world, evidently it is not just 6,000 years ago as the creationists believe, unless I close my eyes and turn off my ears when I try to prove my belief. Secondly, who created the Creator him/herself? And I do not like the answer from those who try to convert me that God just sprang up out of nowhere. I mean if they believe God could emerge from nothing so why couldn’t we? Or because we degrade ourselves as sinners who cannot compare to God? Lastly, if God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent like those believers claim, why since the beginning of our history, human being have been struggling and suffering either from plague, famine and wars. Do not give me the classic answers like God has a plan; or God gives us our own freewill.

Perhaps we just sprang up from the universe consciousness and we are dancing to our own karmic force. Yes I heard someone asking so where is karma from? Like I said, life has no beginning or the end. It’s a circle and I do not know where and when the origin was but I do not think God as a white man with silver bead on the golden throne in heaven can fill that void either.

However with all my due respect to people who believe in God (and I still believe that to moderately believe in God has its own virtue and I totally respect that), I think we should just separate our belief from the science unless we can prove it can go hand in hand. Do not try to disguise it as the alternative science and try to put it in our school curriculum. It will just confuse our children; just leave that belief to our own children’s judgment when they grow up.

Tae Athi