Let’s take a breath and think about something simple. Your phone. The one you’re probably reading this on right now. Maybe it's the newest iPhone, maybe it's a hand-me-down, but one thing's for sure — it's nothing like the phones we had twenty years ago.
Now imagine someone handing you an old flip phone from 2007. No internet. No camera worth using. No apps. You’d probably say, “No thanks.” Not because you’re ungrateful, but because you’ve evolved. We all have.
That, my dear reader, is what evolution is like. It’s not just bones in the dirt or monkeys turning into people. It’s everything. Our tools, our minds, our understanding. Evolution is just the universe upgrading its software — from version 1.0 to something smarter, faster, and more connected.
Some people look at life and say, “This is too complicated. There’s no way it’s by accident.” And they have a point. The universe is full of finely tuned things — the distance between Earth and the sun, the way atoms stick together, the fact that water can be a solid, liquid, or gas. All of it feels... well, just right. Like the universe was built for us to live in. Like someone baked a cosmic cake and followed the recipe perfectly.
Scientists call this “fine-tuning.” And they’ve come up with theories — some say there's an infinite number of universes out there and we just live in the lucky one. Others say it’s all a grand coincidence. But maybe, just maybe, the reason everything works so well is because it was meant to.
Now here’s where things get beautiful.
Maybe to God, all the tangled wires of science and math and evolution are as clear as a child’s bedtime story. Maybe the Theory of Everything — that one big idea scientists are still searching for — will someday be so simple, even your grandma will nod and say, “Oh, I get it now.”
After all, she doesn’t need to understand how Wi-Fi works to FaceTime you across the country. It’s not magic. It’s just the universe getting better at talking to itself.
Albert Einstein once rode a bicycle through the streets of Cambridge. Imagine if someone had handed him an e-bike, Bluetooth connected to a podcast about quantum theory. He’d probably laugh and say, “Spooky action at a distance? Try remote unlocking your Tesla from space.”
What we think is magic today is just tomorrow’s understanding. What feels impossible now will one day be obvious. That’s the drift of time. That’s the whisper of wisdom. That’s evolution — not away from God, but toward Him. Maybe the universe is God’s way of slowly explaining everything… in a language we can grow into.
So no, I don’t want to go back to an iPhone 4. And I don’t want to go back to a world where we thought stars were holes in a blanket or that illness came from bad air.
We are learning. We are drifting forward. And maybe, just maybe, the Author of it all is smiling — knowing that someday, we’ll look back and realize:
It was never magic.
It was always love, unfolding.