What is a Naturalist

A Naturalist is someone who views things in the way Nature intended them to be viewed. There are many ways to view things; among those ways is religiously or through the eye of anarchism. One who views things religiously is one who views things through the eyes of religion. While the anarchist views things with no order.

The Naturalist understands the natural order of things. They know that there is a reason for everything and it is all based around the laws of nature, which they believe are the true laws of the Creator, the law of gravity, the law of consequence to name a few.

They also look at every situation that a person could be involved with, and know that there is a natural solution to a problem or a natural way to deal with it, whether it may be a physical ailment or what you might want to wear or eat for a meal. All of these views can be backed up by studying the Bible from a Naturalist point of view, which is what we will be examining in the literary work. In particular, I base everything on this one premise, Micah 6:8, He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does yy require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?

There was a story I had read about a baby being born prematurely to a drug addicted mother. The baby was born with several problems of which hospital doctors were trying their best to fix. The mother had abandoned the baby and the parents who first wanted to adopt the baby had backed out, but the doctors still did all they could to save this infant. Eventually a couple came along that would take up the challenge of caring for this baby.

In a naturalist world, the baby would have died. I know this sounds cold and cruel, but it is part a nature, part of life. By the doctors practicing God, they upset the natural course of things and the lives of everyone around the area, because somebody has to pay for the care of that child. Nothing is for free.

Doctors and scientists play or practice God almost everyday of their working life. They are constantly thinking of ways to make our lives “better”, but they often create other problems, while trying to fix another problem.

For instance, scientist wanted to make a stronger silk so they took the Gypsy moth from its natural habitat and placed them in America to produce their silk and soon discovered that their silk was not that good. As a result they released them back into the wild, but instead of taking them all back to their natural habitat, they released them into the wild of America and created an epidemic, because there were no natural predators to the Gypsy moth and to this day there is still a problem with the Gypsy moth.

See, here you had a group of scientist not walking humbly with the Creator. They thought they knew more than the Creator. There was a reason the Gypsy moth were not in the United States of America and it should have stayed that way. Hence, it is the same thing with a lot of the projects the scientist endeavor to start and complete. They experiment with the DNA of plants and animal to make what they think are better strains of plants and animals, but in reality they are destroying our own ecosystem. We grow crops that we can not properly digest. We have cattle for food that altar our genetic makeup. Hence, we have a shorter lifespan and we have people dieing of cancers we have never heard of.

Man has eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and now man has the power to be the Creator, but man does not have the wisdom to be the Creator. That is the curse of eating from that tree. Another result of that action is this, I believe the Creator has stepped back from taking an active role in our lives, because man has said that they can do a better job and as a result the Creator has said “Okay, go ahead and prove it.” Man still has not learned, even after Thousands of years of trying to be the Creator. They try to be the creator by making better crops, by genetically modifying the vegetables. They are also cloning animals. They are also changing the way the farmer plants their crops which in the end depletes the crops of valuable nutrients, which in the end makes for an unhealthy populace.

Man has to get back to understanding the way the Creator had intended man to live. The Bible can be translated so that it is not a religious book, but a manual on how to live a healthy, peaceful and prosper life, in harmony with his neighbor and in harmony with nature. So that mankind can live a long and fulfilling life.