| I've long been fascinated by science and the structure | | | | passing off her egg to the father who brunts out the |
| and nature of the world. In our modern, technologically | | | | terrible winter with his brothers - only for the woman to |
| advanced age, it is a sheer blessing that we can | | | | return with food in the spring. The mothers who have |
| circumnavigate the globe from a recliner, while eating | | | | lost their young, fighting to adopt the motherless chick. |
| pizza, in short, hour long segments, whenever it is we | | | | There is no science fiction, in my mind, that can touch |
| have a liking to do so. This is what the BBC | | | | the strange and peculiar world found in our oceans. |
| Documentary Series: Planet Earth does. And there is | | | | Those massive hump back wales, how grotesque |
| no shortage in Episode 6 - Ice Worlds, of the | | | | they are, but also how utterly fascinating and |
| tremendous gravity and stark totality of the carnal | | | | captivating they are. The great expanse of the earth - |
| nature of life. | | | | how microscopic our lives are in comparison. How |
| Watching this episode, I'm struck with the impression of | | | | minute we stand against the backdrop of history - of |
| nature's unrepentant cruelty. A polar bear literally | | | | nature. It begs to question, who are we, when all of us |
| starving to death because he's had to swim for days | | | | - every last one of us breathing in and out right now - |
| to find food, and doesn't have the strength to kill his | | | | will be long in the dirt in 200 years. And yet, science |
| prey. A massive giant to us, this bear looks so tiny | | | | tells us that the earth is billions of years old. |
| against the backdrop of enormous walrus, who stab | | | | That man has been here for 50,000 or more? Even |
| him with their tusks for trying to steal their young. You | | | | the young earthers claim the earth is over 6000 years |
| can't blame the walrus, but you also can't help but to | | | | old. that is 60 one hundred year generations. In 100 |
| feel for the starving bear, who has lost half of his body | | | | years, you will be nothing more than history. Something |
| weight in less than three months. Half. Can you imagine | | | | for someone to maybe read about if you are lucky - |
| what that must be like? I weigh 300 lbs and whenever | | | | most of us (as has most of humanity) will drift away |
| I get even a twinge of hunger, I leisurely stroll into the | | | | into eternity without any record to account for us. How |
| kitchen and grab something to eat (which is why I | | | | many people have been born, have lived and have |
| weigh 300 lbs). After discovering that this bear has | | | | died, without even the acknowledgment that their life |
| literally been starving for months, his roar seems like | | | | amounted to anything but a brief instant in time? How |
| desperate and frustrated cries of agony, as he | | | | many more animals? Creatures? Insects? it is an |
| starves to death. | | | | unthinkable number. |
| I ask again and again: why is nature so cruel? If God | | | | The arctic fox raises her young in the snow. The birds |
| created the universe and the world we live in and | | | | scare away the threats from above and below. We |
| everything in it, why did He create such a horrible | | | | humans in the western world do not think beyond our |
| system of death and torture and depravity. Of course, | | | | stomachs or our refrigerators or our WiFi, BlueTooth |
| He didn't. The bible says our fallen nature has been | | | | enabled, convoluted, self-gestating lives. The imperative |
| subjected onto the world and everything in it. The | | | | to procreate has been all but lost on humanity. It is |
| ground has been literally cursed because of man. So in | | | | sport now, while our children are tossed aside on the |
| the end, as I defy the curse of Adam by no longer | | | | State run trash heaps to be raised and educated and |
| living off the land that he was shackled to, as I live and | | | | put to the mill to mass produce our consumer plethora. |
| breath and the world draws closer to the end, I am - | | | | It is a terrible tragedy words cannot adequately |
| mankind within me - is responsible for this carnage. | | | | describe. Existence. But this episode of Planet Earth, |
| But there is such joy and beauty mixed together with | | | | captures the very essence of that tragedy, without |
| the unthinkable tragedy. The penguins, as they find their | | | | words. |
| mates, and copulate, raising their young - mother | | | | |