73

It has turned out that Whisper #73 is longer than usual, much too long, as a matter of fact. Therefore most of it appears in the nonfiction section of the website under the full title, “We have no need for Adam and Eve.” By way of introduction to the larger essay, the first and last paragraphs are printed here as Whisper #73.  If you want to know how the first leads to the last, you will have to read the whole thing on the website's nonfiction page.

Always and everywhere the human condition is imperfect; Arcadia is forever beyond. Rather, too often lives flat and boring, lost and empty, busy but pointless, lives torn and desolate at times, moments of hideous and pain wracked suffering—one way or another or several ways, human life falls short of our hopes. Why?  

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There are coherent, orderly, incredibly complex and integrated living systems in the universe. There is order and purpose throughout the universe. There are astonishing interdependencies, micro through macro. Therefore, if determinism does not explain the human condition, and if random accidents do not explain why anything exists, we then must permit or invite into our lives some force that is other than the natural world, something with intention and power, something beyond our universe of time and space, some force that transcends eternities, that is echoed by the verities, that infuses consciousness and creative power into brains, something that caused our Big Bang and perhaps multiple other universes, something that allows the mind to make choices in causative sequences. That alternative is called theism, and through it and by it theists can get help in managing our weedy, thistly gardens.