Sunday, March 8, 2009

Thoughts on the movie "Watchmen"

So last night, I went out with some friends to see the new movie "Watchmen." I hate to say that the movie was one I found very disturbing and yet thought provoking. It was filled with quite a bit of socialism crap, and some scenes in the movie really didn't need to be in there. However, there was one quote in the movie, by Dr. Manhatten that was very interesting....


Doctor Manhattan: Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.
It really made me think just how awesome God is (not thermo-dynamics) in making each human being. It's beautiful and amazing.




1 comment:

Unknown said...

It is good that you were able to find a pearl amid so much swill. I am really glad someone told me about the naughty bits before I let someone in my family see that particular movie.