The Vegan Lifestyle

Man is very important to God. On the sixth day of Creation, God created man in His own image. Man is God’s masterpiece of Creation.

God created everything in this universe for the well being of man. The psalmist who realized this profound truth wrote with awe and wonder: “What is man that thou art mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4).

Man was created a little lower than the angels (Psalm 8:5), and made him to have dominion over the works of God’s hands, and put all things under his feet (Psalm 8:6).

Oh, what a great privilege for man to be so pampered by God! What is man indeed that God would be so mindful of him?

God was so delighted when He created man from the dust of the ground. He gave life to man by breathing His very own breath into man’s nostrils, and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).

Oh, what a wonderful and inspiring fact! The very breath of the  LORD God Almighty is in man’s nostrils! It is inherent in every man, and no diseases can ever thrive in him if he can fully realize and understand this awesome truth!

God spoke these things into  existence: the light, the firmament, the dry land and the sea, the grass, herbs and trees, the sun, moon, and stars. He created the fish of the waters, the fowls of the air, and all living creatures of the Earth. God created all these things, and prepared all these before creating man. All provisions for comfortable existence were made ready for man before he was created by God. What a loving providential God!

God created the universe and all the things in it for man’s well being. You may not believe this, but astrobiologists discovered 154 finely-tuned parameters in the whole universe that  show God’s tender love for man.  This wonderful phenomenon called anthropic coincidence or principle  is the coherent interrelationship and delicate fine-tuning of all things in this universe. These are parameters of a planet such as the Earth in relation to its moons, stars and galaxies whose values fall within narrowly defined ranges that make physical existence of man possible.

Let us talk about one of these amazing anthropic coincidences: the delicate complex composition of air. The air we breathe is precisely composed of 78.084% nitrogen, 20.9476% oxygen, 0.934% argon, 0.0314% carbon dioxide, 0.001818% neon, 0.0002% methane, 0.000524% helium, 0.000114% krypton, 0.00005% hydrogen, and 0.0000087% xenon. What a very delicate composition! Any alteration in only a few parts per million is fatal! What is the wisdom that keeps this extremely delicate composition intact all days throughout the ages?

The above delicate composition of the air that we breathe is just one of the many anthropic coincidences or principles in the universe that not only show God’s amazing love for man, but also prove that this Universe was created by a Master Designer, God. Another example of these anthropic coincidences is the distance of our planet from the sun. Had the distance of the Earth from the Sun been lesser than 93 million miles, all life on Earth would have been scorched to death, and if greater, the Earth would have  been frozen and lifeless.

There are many more anthropic coincidences that show God’s love for man.  The Earth’s magnetic field, oxygen and nitrogen quantities in the atmosphere, the delicate oxygen to nitrogen ratio, the levels  in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, water vapor, the ozone,  plus a hundred more interrelated anthropic coincidences that link the planets, stars, galaxies and all forms of life in the whole universe are among the many anthropic coincidences or principles that clearly declare the importance of man to God.

Sometimes I wonder and ask these questions: What if our solar system is located at the outer edge of the spiral arm of the Milky Way  galaxy – where shall we be catapulted in the universe? Or if our solar system is  located near the center of our galaxy, shall it escape the tremendous gravitational pull  of a black hole  as it plunges towards its  “Schwarzschild radius”? How dreadful it is to be engulfed in this Whirlpool of No Return! All communications are  totally cut  off from the universe once inside the black hole’s “event horizon”, and final death occurs at its  “singularity” point where all fundamental particles are stripped to vanish completely.

These are possible disasters so fearful that we do not dare to imagine them in our minds. Thanks be to God – He put  everything in order, and designed the whole universe for the well being of man. Truly God loves man very much for he is His masterpiece of Creation, and he is indeed very important to Him.

What a loving Creator who made all things in this universe for the well being of man! What a humble God who condescends to the level of the lowly mortal such as man! What man will not love Him in return?

Anthropic coincidence is one of the many tangible proofs of God’s amazing love for man. The whole universe and all the things in it – space, time, events and conditions were created by God with man’s comfort and well being as its sole purpose.

Astrophysicist and other scientists call this incredible phenomenon as anthropic principle. In the whole universe, scientists have counted more than 150 anthropic coincidences or principles. These coincidences are interrelated with each other in precise accuracy, such that if one of these is not true, all the others are not true. And if all of them are not true, then the universe and all in it is not true and nonexistent.

This makes these principles or coincidences beyond refutation for the simple reason that if it is false, then I do not exist. But I do exist, and all of us as well. All of these is simply because God loves us so much as a priceless masterpiece of all His creations.

What are these coincidences or principles?

Let us start from the most basic coincidence: the precise complex composition of the air we breathe. Man has greatly benefited from this since the inception of his life in the fetus. Long before the brain developed and the heart started to beat, life was supported by the air which God has so accurately made for man.

Air is chiefly composed of nitrogen, 78 percent, and oxygen, 21 percent. It also contains argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, ozone, and water vapor. Had the air composition been altered a little bit, life on this planet would have not existed.

Another mysterious coincidence is the formation, and arrangement of the innumerable stars and other heavenly bodies in the whole universe. We studied in Physics that they are held in place by gravity, a force exerted by particles called gravitons with a pull equivalent to a gravitational constant that applies to all heavenly bodies proportional to their masses and distances between them.

In our solar system, the planets are so arranged precisely in its respective orbits as to prevent  collisions. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is so precise that altering it would bring untold disasters and upheavals. Ninety three million miles from the Sun is so accurate, that a few hundred miles farther or nearer would freeze or scorch the Earth and all life in it respectively.

Even the distance and position of the Sun in the Milky Way is incredibly accurate relative to the other heavenly bodies in the galaxy. Milky Way is a spiral galaxy,and our Sun is near the edge of the spiral and a little bit far from its center as if safely cuddled in the bossom of God. Had it been nearer to the center, our Sun would have been instantly swallowed up by blackholes into nothingness, and had it been nearer the edge of the spiral, our Sun would have been catapulted to its destruction in the outer fringes of the galaxy.

These are just a few among hundreds of wonderful phenomenon that show God’s love and care for man. Other questions besides anthropic coincidences could be: Why is the water we drink is liquid and fluid?, and why is the food we eat is soft and palatable?

We can study biochemistry, and all the sciences to search the answers to the above questions. We can analyze the compositions and crystal structures of water and food, but the knowledge we can gain from it is so insignificant compared to its truest essence that we shall have barely scratched its surface. No matter how deep we dig, in the end we can only say that the answers are hidden mysteriously in the mind of an omniscient God.