from dust, to dust

As I was browsing a hi-so bookstore in downtown Bangkok yesterday evening, I observed that the overall gist of things is that we come come from apes and are headed toward machines. We are ready to find our origins in the dust of the earth, and ready to meld ourselves with the same. How strange that we are so horizontal...that rather than embracing the vertical that we are capable of, we are very willing to say that behind us, is dust - and ahead of us, which we can determine, we would also like to strive toward dust - albeit a highly developed dust.

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19

I think humanity is working unawares to fulfill this prophecy - in between pre-birth life and post-death life we are adding post-birth dust and pre-death dust. Apes, headed toward machines.

How strange that the same Lord God who said, "You are from dust and to dust you will return" - the One before whose words we must humble ourselves - is also the One who lifts us beyond man's highest position in the most humanistic of thinking. He has touched us with the divine - with His image, with souls, and the capacity to think and reason.