Nuts?

June 26th, 2021| Topic: RaMbLeS | 0

The other day, there was an unusual heist. Touchstone Pistachio Company, in the San Joaquin Valley, discovered during a routine audit that something wasn’t adding up.

More than 42,000 pounds of pistachios had vanished.

Later, the sheriff’s office in Tulare County, CA, said they found the missing nuts and arrested the thief. Alberto Montemayor, 34, was hiding the pistachios in a tractor trailer parked in a nearby parking lot and then repackaging them to sell.

This is just another in the latest epidemic of pistachio robberies in Central California, where, you should know, nuts are a $5 billion economic engine driving over 45,000 jobs in Central California.

Perhaps it is the lack of serial numbers that make Pistacia vera a nice item to steal, repackage and resell.

Anyway, when detectives inspected Montemayor’s truck, they found the pistachios siphoned into 2,000-pound sacks, making it easier for resale.

It is unclear how many pounds of the stolen pistachios remained in the trailer. The sheriff’s office said all of what was found was returned to the Touchstone Pistachio Company.

And Montemayor was booked in the county jail.

Moral: Don’t steal nuts.

That has nothing to do with what follows, other than the word “nuts.”

Now that’s something Christians have been accused of—no, not stealing nuts, but going nuts.

One pastor writes:

‘Yeah, Christians might be crazy.’ That was my honest answer to the guy who asked if I had considered I might be nuttier than a Planters factory. I had just finished preaching that God had become a man, was born of a virgin, lived without sin, cast out demons, healed the sick, waterskied without a boat, died on a cross for the world’s sins, rose three days later, ate breakfast, hung out for 40 days, and ascended to heaven to take His throne and rule over creation until He returns to judge the living and the dead.”

True, but there is evidence that this is not at all crazy, concocted by folks gone nuts!

What is known about God is evident within [humans];
for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His unseen attributes
—His eternal power and divine nature—
have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made.
Romans 1:19–21

Just look at the DNA we humans carry. It codes the information for everything about our bodies—the blueprint for pretty much everything that goes on inside us. Each cell in our bodies carries all this information in this tightly coiled structure called DNA. If you uncoil it, there’s about 6 feet of DNA per cell.

And we have 10 trillion cells in our bodies (a low estimate). So the total length of the DNA in our bodies is about 60 trillion feet or 11 billion miles. Or 50 roundtrips from the earth to the sun. That’s the total length of DNA in one human. One human!

One scientist calculated that the total information carried by this 11 billion mile-long DNA in each human is equivalent to 150 trillion GB (150 followed by 12 zeros GB) or 150 Zeta bytes. Mind boggling.

And all of this information is coded on DNA in “letters”—6 billion letters in each cell. The entire KJ Bible has only 4 million letters, counting all the As and Bs and Cs and Ds and so on. We have 6 billion DNA “letters” in each cell!

Just that level of information organization and transmittal is enough to convince me I’ve not gone nuts.

(Though I do love pistachios. Try the habanero-spiced up ones. Marvelous!)

SOURCES:
The Washington Post