Thursday, July 14, 2016

Look Unto The Ant - A fictional story that compares an engineer of an ant farm to God and a world of ants to humans lending validity to the creation story

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A young engineer designs and builds an enormous and elaborate ant farm in his 4 car garage. The ant farm nearly takes up the whole garage, over 40 square feet.  There are different  ecosystems with a variety of terrains, bodies of water, plants and a vast range of ant breeds along with other species of insects and creatures.    He skillfully emulates mountains and hills, valleys, canyons and flats, lakes, swamps and rivers.  He creates lights which hang from above which replicate  both the sun by day and the moon and stars by night.  An irrigation system creates rain, mist and refills wells all throughout at random.  There are also devices installed which produce a palette of wind pressures and climate temperatures. There are even ingeniously simulated  events of natural disasters of seismic activity, storms, floods and fires within various regions of the sophisticated ant farm.

Life in this insectoid bio dome flourishes and becomes self-sufficient with subtle assistance from the engineer.  The food chain balances itself out with occasional help from the engineer to ensure maintenance.   Ants are the dominant species in this mechanically ordered world of small creatures.  They quickly begin to form colonies and societies and continue to populate steadily for hundreds of ant generations.  They are unable to see outside their world nor are they keenly aware of the engineers existence. 

Life in the ant world is robust and diverse.  There are cultures and different levels of progress. Anything from Wars over resources and control occur to ants blending into other ant societies take place.  Some ants are more sophisticated than others as diversity blossoms.

After several decades pass, ants begin to wonder and even debate about where they came from. Some believe they were created while others believe that nature brought about their existence by chance while still some remained neutral.

The ants who believed that nature brought about their existence by chance observed the gradual changes in nature and proposed that all existence evolved and that there must have initially been some sort of a bang of matter in the outside universe. They ridiculed the ants who believed they were created and reasoned that the creation theory sounds like a fairy tail.

The other school of thought philosophized that everything must have been created since their world operates and functions with far too much order and sophistication to have naturally evolved at random by sheer chance.  They also pointed out that none of the ants ever observed any of the natural events for which they claimed and reasoned that it was speculation.
Legend in the ant world has it that some ants throughout history have been mysteriously abducted out of the world and into the sky by a five pronged claw of a great creature.  And on some occasions,  ants would be returned by this five pronged claw unharmed.  What these ants claimed to have seen in the heavens above are regarded are fairy tales. 
However, a great many ants endorse this mysterious clawed creature as their god and the keeper of their world.  They believe the legends which speak of ants who were taken up into the heavens by his mighty claw and claim to see this clawed god do unimaginable things.  He has the power to create light with the flip of a great switch and speak to other gods like him magically through claw held devices.  He travels in a great big carriage which can race at an unimaginable speed and he can even take off into his heavens with an immense winged cylinder at speeds too fast to put into ant words.  He was even once alleged to have been seen moving and creating entire mountains in an instant with his own claw.  He even lifted part of the whole ant planet with his own claw.
 The communities of ants who believe these stories and feel there is such a great and powerful five pronged claw keeper of their world are regarded as lunatics and silly and blind by the rest of the ant world.  And most ants are offended if these theistic ants even speak of such a creator. 




Which of the  groups of ants were correct?

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