Parents, there will NEVER be a “perfect time” to start taking care of yourself. It’s going to have to happen moment to moment. You need to make a plan, take action, get small wins, and repeat the process. The time is NOW!
No one has ever observed a universe spontaneously generate from nothing, and no one has ever observed a single-cell organism gradually become a human being. The transitional fossil record has never been completed, and no lab has ever produced life from non-life.
But those ideas get textbooks, grants, and PhDs behind them. The moment you say God created it, suddenly you’re the one who needs to prove something. That’s not science - that’s a belief system with a better PR team.
I’ve thought long and hard about this, and I’ll take the Designer who left His fingerprints all over creation over a theory that somehow turns an explosion into order, beauty, and consciousness.
Call it faith if you want. At least I know what I believe and why. Can you say the same?