Nature's indifference to Human Symbols of status

“Religious fundamentalists may deny that evolution exists, but in the natural world it is religion that does not exist.”

John Maisey of American Museum of Natural History




Our symbols convey that we are central, paramount, and immortal but nature's message conveys that we are a part of , equal to, and mortal creatures of nature's system. When a chicken has its head cut off the world still spins and when a man's is cut off the world still spins. It is not just the fact that a man's head was decapitated like a chicken that is the horror but that it is even possible that nature allows for such a sight, that physics allows for such an outcome as higher consciousness on a fragile and vulnerable meat stick.
Whether it is the Adam and Eve myth or the Noah myth mankind is the central actor and God will destroy all of nature or change all of nature due to the actions of Men. Man is the center of the Cosmic drama in the Biblical message. Nature's message paints a different picture where man is no longer the central actor but rather just another part of nature in the long evolutionary history of life on Earth.
Some Humans may deny they are a part of Nature but Nature denies Human superiority in the way it treats the Human body and the Human immortality symbols. Viruses and Bacteria will ravage Humans as they will other animals. And a Human Body will provide nourishment to a Crocodile or a Big Cat just the same.

Man wants to be the central actor in the cosmos, on earth, in history. But nature's message runs something else in the ear if you pay attention. Nature may declare the glory of God...some God...but it does not declare the glory of man. Nature is indifferent to our self aggrandizing symbols whether they be secular or religious.
Humans kiss statues, Birds defecate on them. (accumulated grime, algae and bird droppings which are acidic.)