Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell A Boston Pops Christmas Concert The Boston Pops Christmas Concert is a wonderful event. Over 100 musicians and 100 choristers blend for a delightful afternoon of sacred and secular holiday favorites. During a complex Vaughn Williams composition I was overwhelmed with the lifetimes of individual practice plus the combined hundreds of hours of rehearsal needed for everyone to so perfectly play together. No matter how many millions of times one might try, one could never randomly select 200 people off the street, put them on a stage and have them instantly produce such wonder. Someone would have to compose the music. Someone would have to make the instruments. Someone would have to assign the various parts. Each person would have to learn to read music. Each person would have to master his or her assigned instrument. Someone would have to skillfully mold them into a unit. Such an event as a Christmas concert could never occur without creativity, design, coordination, talent and thousands of hours of education. To me it is just one more cognitive nail in the intellectual coffin of those who believe the complexity of life is a random event in the eons of history. Since no living human being was present at the beginning of earth's history everyone accepts by faith a position supported by a limited amount of evidence. Surely it is more rational to believe the wonder of a human mind that can produce a Christmas concert is the product of a master designer rather than that of primordial swamp juice being stuck by lightening. And God asked Job, "Where were you when I created the earth?" Job 38:4 I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is roger.bothwell@verizon.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives