Why God Created Monkeys

Katy Pelchy
Why God Created Monkeys
Making Nature Sacred

“The point of the dragonfly’s terrible lip, the giant water bug, bird-song, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together lick clockwork – for it doesn’t particularly, not even inside the goldfish bowl – but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, fringed tangle. Freedom is the world’s water and weather, the world’s nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”

The creator loving pizzazz made me think of God having a sense of humor, which I think can be proven that He does. Why else would He have created monkeys? Or orangutans? Or elephants and manatees? Or even the sloth? True, they all have their place, but really, there is definitely some humor in that.

I had always thought that nature was interconnected down to the tiniest bit of matter. That no matter what, every bit of everything was used by something else, and that the connectedness could never be broken because everything is interdependent. At least, that’s what biology teaches. This quote from the book gave a different perspective, and got me to thinking about the true definition of freedom. Really, there CAN be no freedom if everything is so rigidly connected within its place. There is no room for it. Everything in the world DOES seem chaotic, and perhaps rightly so. The weather, creatures, death, life…it’s all somewhat random and cannot be predicted or expected. And I find it beautiful. To never know what is going to happen next, or where something’s place truly is, is a gift. It makes every moment new and exciting and gives us something mysterious to have hope in. There in beauty in chaos, and God knew this. That’s why he created the monkeys.