Category Archives: General Interest

Excuse Me – But Why Am I Here?

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Recently I was communicating with an old friend from way back in the high school era.  The joy of finding a long lost person gave way to telling each other our stories … where we’ve been, who we ended up with, and lots about what we’d done along the way.

But Who Are WE?

Invariably the stories run to some kind of end point.  Ah, this is where I am in life.  And when I described how I’d found disappointment in the way some or many persons had treated me in my life’s trek … I relayed the news that I’d started to ask the big questions in life.  I found myself in a way that began to differentiate who I was compared to the large majority of people.  Does that separation somehow make me the “odd man out?”  Or did I find something right and everyone else is on the outside?

A Night’s Realization

Well here is a test for you.  Have you thought about who you are and about others, only to find yourself putting your head down on a pillow at night, in the silence of the darkness, to realize something kind of freaky.  Like we know we are conscious and that means we are alive. Alive. What is that? And then the big question: “Why is there a me?”

Of all possible things … there is a universe, there is a planet called Earth, and I am here.  But why?  Out of all the thoughts I have each day … why does it strike me as strange that I am alive!

But then, why are we here?  It really didn’t need to be so.

The Big Story I Told

In telling my personal story, I noted that at one point in my career I started to ask both scientific and theistic questions.  The answers to the merging issues put an answer to the “Why Am I Here?”  The answers came over time and as new information from biblical archaeology, from a hard core examination of evolution and how Darwinism has its major issues unaddressed by the majority, how the Bible agrees with a universe that has an origin before which there was no space or time,  new discussions on life revealing evidence for design and thus opening the door to a designer, and studies of Israel and historical events that lead to a forward looking of chronological events that have been and will come according to the biblical text.  Science data revealed another side of the coin of truth.  Remarkable!  The Bible describes what was to come, what came, and what will come in the future ahead.  And we live on that time line, right now!

So maybe you don’t believe it.  But did you look at any of this?  Did you have that freaky moment late at night that pierces one’s being to ask why you are here?  And what if the scientific data and biblical information really do answer the question?

WindowView is a product of merging thoughts that go to answer why you are here.  It’s not a mistake, you are meant to be a stranger in a place where you are traveling here, in this space and time, to discover that there is a future … an eternal future.  Yeah, that seems strange doesn’t it?  But if it’s true, then why not embrace it and learn more and then be joyed by the fact that there is more to life than the mess we face here!  In this way, the future gets better, not worse.  A look around Earth today we see a lot of confusion.  Why not get beyond the confusion and clear up the view!  If science and theism bring you to a whole truth … you may not be in the majority, but at least you’ll know where YOU are headed!  And that answers the question: “Why Am I Here!”

Science can really tell us how special life is.  The Bible can tell us more about why we are here.  Together, these two perspectives give us a really wonderful big picture!

Director, WindowView.org

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A Signature In The Cell?

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Yes, there is an ‘information signature’ placed in every cell of every living life form on earth.  The chromosomes and the genome we study in biology class contain a code.  This is no suprise since this is common knowledge.  What is not common, is our understanding exactly how complex the code really is. And complex code deserves a look from the standpoint of trying to explain where the complexity comes from.

What we are left to assume is that life is the product of chance events over long periods of time. The code in the genome, along with all the forms of life we see, are subject to the common assumption.

BUT THE ASSUMPTION IS WRONG.  And … if this is true, maybe the door to a better explanation for the origin of life is right there in front of our eyes.

You live in the day when a paradigm in biology will change. The assumption of chance occureneces leading to life is soon to be widly considered a non-starter, a dead concept, and simply wrong.

Dr. Stephen Meyer’s book, Signature in the Cell, is written in plain language with examples a grade school child will understand.  But the entire story told in the book takes you from science detective work, to explaining how, why, and where the genetic code is so complex as to not be the product of either chance or necessity. Dr. Meyer peels the layers of the story like removing layers of the onion. He is considerate, gentle, patient to explain, and then reinforces points with sound logic. And yes, he supports abductive reasoning much like Charles Darwin used in the first effort to explain evolution. But here, Dr. Meyer gives the best explanation we have for the origin of life as a product of design.

The book answers flawed thinking, illustrates problems with criticisms lowered on the design approach, and then goes further excplain how design theory can best explain biological information in the cell.

Signature in the Cell is a book you can get at a reasonable price.

We could just recommend the book and say: “Go read this great book!”  Or, we could say that in the months and years ahead this writing will change the way we think about the classroom, our life, and our origins!

Director, WindowView

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The Most Important Question

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What is after all the most important question? We want you to really think about which question that is!

You Rubbed the Magic Lamp But You Only Get ONE Wish
Imagine you found a magical lamp. You think that if you rub it a puff of blue-green smoke will pour out and out pops a genie! Well, that might be nice, but when this guy appears, he stares right into your face, says he’s for real, and YOU get one wish. But instead of stuff, you get only something truthful. No money here, just information!

What To Ask For!
The WindowView was developed with the intent of getting people to think. If you look at the world today, what is there out there? Do things look good? What are the prospects for humanity in time future? What’s the big picture?

To be honest, if you look at what the window reveals, in an unbiased and somewhat impartial manner, you might run across the truth! A friend once noted, people don’t want to be confronted by truth! It’s easier to be in denial and do just what we want to do. If we have to face the truth, then we are faced with our mortality and the eventual disposition of this life … and that disposition leaves us dead. In fact, no one gets out of here alive! Have you noticed?

Seek The Truth
Okay, so perhaps the real important question relates to truth. Do you want this lifetime to be an opportunity to get at the truth, or are you going to blow it off?

What if there’s more that is supposed to come later? What if what we do now … has a lot to do with what might happen later? Yeah, lights out at the end, but what if they come back on again by some higher purpose?

What if there is a most important question that leads to the most incredibly important answer? What is the most important question? What is your most important question?

We’ll leave open this posting for comments … at least for a while. We’ll maintain an open door to gather some thoughts. WHAT is the most important question?

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Hello!

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Welcome to WindowView Press. This is our first post.

In the days ahead we’ll add content here that is relevant to the four main feature areas at WindowView.

In fact, in the months ahead we will be revising the entire web site. The present content will be mainatined. New navigation tools and some format changes will help to make the site more useful.

But there is one additional change yet to come. Behind the scenes … from the very start … has been a purpose and a promise that we’ve never quite been able to illuminate. New light on this web site will distinguish the former presentation from what will be launched mid to late summer 2006.

In short, this web site has been part of an anticipation of what the future will bring. The ongoing discussion on life’s origins, the dramatic global and climatic changes that now grace the news headlines each day, and the conflict in the Middle East are all a part of a bigger picture. And it’s within that picture that we’ve seen a place for a promise. We will focus on the promise in a way that you too will be able to better see why this window is so important!

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