Opus 2024-353: Do Mighty Oaks Really Exist?

As I sit on the porch, contemplating the glories of nature and creation, I have to look through the branches of a number of oak trees.  They bring a lot of different thoughts about God’s methods and priorities.  As I looked at the oak trees in front of me, I found myself wondering where does my oak furniture come from?

I was raised around California live oaks.  They seem to be very similar to the oak trees that I’m seeing in the hill country of Texas.  They can get good sized but nowhere near the height of Sequoia trees or pines in some of the forests I have enjoyed.  Another characteristic of these trees is that there are no straight branches.  As I look at the five, no make that six, trees I can see right in front of me I can’t see any portion of trunk from which my bookcases could have been made.  I hear they made sailing ships out of oak.  I have seen massive beams that they tell me are oak.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an oak tree from which this kind of wood could come.

Does that mean the giant oak trees never existed?  Does it mean that there are none today?  Are people just pulling my leg?  Just because I have not seen something, or was not aware I was seeing it, does that mean it never existed?  Does it prove they don’t exist now.  There are certain things I assume because I have seen the evidence right in front of my eyes.

Which brings me full circle back to creation, and the existence of God.  I see evidence all around me that there must’ve been a Creator sometime.  I see the results of this God.  I think I sense this God.  As the old saying goes, “Who are you going to believe, me, or you’re lying eyes?

As another famous quote goes, “Mr. Atheist, you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.”

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