The new Jurassic Park movie is out, Jurassic Dominion. The good guys are great. The bad guys are terrible. The special effects are top rate, and the dinosaurs are believably done. I began to think. The scientists violated the natural order to recreate the dinosaurs, which go on to flourish and invade all the ecosystems of the world. That is an interesting metaphor.

Humans create things and events which take on a life of their own and create change in lives, systems, and communities. Many science fiction stories focus on how man is creating his own destruction through science or other selfish manipulation of the natural world. Movies tend to reflect the true fears of people. Certainly dinosaur movies can’t even compare to the destruction caused by any human war.

Humans create to satisfy personal needs. Selfish purpose always creates harm to its surrounding community, whether it is creating something or doing something. A scientist clones a sheep which shifts the natural world. A thief changes all those impacted by the theft, including all the community by the danger he creates. It is amplified by the dimension of the crime and/or the injuries or deaths which accompany the crime. Economics spur wars that destroy.

Each thing we create offsets other things by being out of proportion or sync. Humans have a limited vision and are more concerned with the impact on themselves than they are aware of the invading impact of their actions on the wider world. Pollution is a classic example of negative impact we cause.

Compare the impact we cause to creation by God. The Lord creates for all things to fit and work together without any one setting the others out of balance. He creates things with the ability to right themselves if imbalance should occur. We scar. He heals. Even the evolutionists who deny God have to say that life on this planet is constructed of beautifully put together ecosystems that are so complex and amazing in the way they self-sustain and self-heal.

You can see the desires at play when man creates. It is for himself and his own benefit. The Jurassic creatures are created for power, for money, for prestige. We build civilizations and pollute the creation with the left overs and by-products. God creates for the benefit of the other. Each piece is a blessing to the other pieces. The by-products and left overs feed other parts of the ecosystem. He has and does engineer a whole, fit together. We create pieces, disjointed and often antagonistic that pull against or destroy the other pieces. He is thorough. We are piecemeal. He takes in all contingencies. We take in only the desired impact with limited or no awareness of the relative cost or impacts.

The more I look at life, the more I see that God is real and that mankind needs Him. I am grateful that He makes Himself obvious and available.