Recently I read this article and was struck by one of the quotes. “It’s my data” say Sharon Terry, the CEO Genetic Alliance. So I got to thinking that each person has a unique ID in their DNA and how tables in databases also have unique keys. What if the Database of Heaven used our DNA as its unique ID. For each new person that arrived on earth, it would made sense to create a new unique ID from combination of the two unique ID’s that begot that person. I mean maybe Angel of Data in Heaven could just makes a unique numeric ID that was increased from previously used number. Adam being 1, Eve being 2, etc.etc. This would make some sense except for people who were conceived a the same time. The moment that DNA combines is like a new entry into the database of Heaven and that unique key can not be used again. This would be a rationally way of maybe convincing some that life begins at conception. Every time an embryo undergoes artificial or natural splitting for a twin then a new ID is created each time because a new viable life has been formed!. (“But wait! what about Identical twins?” Okay I didn’t have that on my mind when I originally thought about this, but maybe God throws on another identifier somewhere in the key, like mass, or some SequenceID field.)
I love that at times I get to zoom into a single row of data and at other times I zoom out and look at the entire grandeur of my whole table, and then the whole database. Each thing is thrilling. Sometimes I have to attend to a few rows of data and help them out by correcting something that erred. Other times I am crunching the entire database and visualizing what millions of interactions produces. Sometimes I look and person XXXXX-XXXX-XX and think “you don’t realize this, but I’m making some update to your record, which at times is a really mundane task, but it makes sure your data flies through the database without kicking back errors so you can go on with your life.”
The point of this post is offering up an explanation of the sacredness of life and the importance of each person. Of course this is all from the perspective of a data nerd pondering verses in the Bible such as these:
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Of course the second verse harkens to something that indicates that maybe the ID’s already exist and are predestined… but more on that later.