Nature, how normal does that sound?

   So we have all seen the sci-fi movies (or books) where there are those crazy natural disasters. For example rocks falling from the sky, the earth splitting open to form huge chasms, or acidic rain that burns your skin if it touches you. Well now just think about all of the things we have now, think hard, because we essentially have all of these things in our world. Yea I know we don't have acid rain, but we did. You might be thinking, "Yea, but Philip, we don't have rocks that fall from the sky." Well, what about hail?
   There are so many things that happen in our world that just happen often enough that we don't think of them as weird anymore. Okay, so back to rain, one of the simplest types of weather right (well of course besides the usual sunny and cloudy days). Sometimes clouds can dump up to three inches of water, now think about just how much that all weighed. Think, that was all just floating up in the sky! Thousands of tons of water just floating above our heads and we call this normal. Just imagine explaining this to someone who has never heard of, or seen clouds. Good luck on explaining hail and it just gets weirder from there.
   Wind, simple enough right? Well if you get strong enough cross winds, then a Tornado would be the result. Okay if you are by a window, look out side at your neighbors house. If you live in Kansas and have no neighbors, well then you could probably just look out side and see an actual tornado. Anyway, think of how something as gentle as wind can actually have the power to rip that house right off of its foundations.
   Earthquakes, if you think about this, does it not sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel. I can picture it right now: "The solid earth beneath his feet started shaking. There was no where safe, even the old reliable ground was no longer trustworthy."
   Okay enough with the natural disasters, but everywhere you look there is something crazy going on. So crazy in fact that I think calling it normal (Which to me labels something as 'Boring!') is incredibly misleading. A pine tree for example, it starts off with the pine cone. When the cone releases its seeds, the seeds themselves are smaller than a penny, then give it several years and BAM a forty foot tall tree! Yea, sure its normal, but does it deserve that title? Lets see scientists put some piece of equipment in the ground and in twenty years there stands a nice ol' machine that gets energy from the sun and feeds off of the nutrients in the ground. Then on top of that, lets watch it create more seeds so that it can create more machines just like it.
   Now lets not forget all of the crazy animals we have, like fish who breath in the extra oxygen in the water, or birds who have hollow bones and a perfect wing shape that enable flight. What about amphibians who start off the first part of their lives basically as fish, then they grow arms, legs and all the other things you see that frogs possess. Eyes, I am not even going to begin to explain how they work, mainly because I myself don't fully understand them, then there is the oxygenating of our blood which is actually what keeps us alive. Or if you want to get even more narrow, the individual cell. Just think of all the processes your body is doing right now as you just read this. If you ate just a little bit ago, then your stomach and intestines are digesting your food to run all of your bodily functions. Your lungs are constantly expanding and collapsing to allow air flow, your heart is pumping the oxygenated blood. Thousands of veins and arteries carry your blood to and from the muscles that need the energy and oxygen. Each and every single one of the cells in your body is burning calories so that they can do their jobs, and or form new cells. Then there is your brain, the thing that gives you the ability to think, process, see, feel, taste, move, learn, create, draw and remember. Now tell me, how is it possible for all of this to happen by chance?? These are the things that we call normal, so if normal things are as complicated as these things I have mentioned, then just imagine what isn't normal!