How about "NO!"

Live Science is asking the question: Is Mother Nature out of control?

It reports,

"One scientist, however, says that relative to the time period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Earth has been more active over the past 15 years or so"

So as the world watches Haiti recover from an earthquake, Chile deal with a brand new one, Hawaii watch its shores for a tsunami, and New Orleans still not be able to shake the memories of a giant hurricane, people would be fair to conclude that, yes, Mother Nature is truly out of control, the end times are near, and the world will end at any moment whenever big Mamma Earth wants to belch another pocket of air out of her hog-like mouth..

Live Science never truly answers the question that the title of its article introduced to the masses, those asses. Is the earth ready to kill all of its inhabitants.. A frightening thought.

Until you look at history.

1906: The Great San Fran earthquake..
1918 flu..
1925 tornados--and that pesky 'dust bowl' that added misery to the Great Depression..
1980s eruption of Mt Saint Helens
1993 Storm of the Century blizzard
Hurricane Katrina in 2005..
Tsunami is 2005..

There were countless other stories on major hurricanes, snowstorms, summers without heat and winters without snow, earthquakes, and both human and nature-related suffering throughout the ages--this is not even taking into account non-recorded history, including a possible calamity that killed off the dinosaurs.

So the assumption a thoughtful person could make is that, no, mother nature is not an out of control drunk, or a drug addicted pill popper that gets into tirades of violence. Instead, it's somehow persistent, mechanical, and doing it the way it should be done. The earth is a living, breathing thing. Does it have a soul? A few pagans and wiccans would say yes, while christians may debate it.. but it's clear that nature itself has a rhyme and reason to nearly everything--even if we don't understand it.

So over the next few weeks we will hear accounts of the earth being crazy-angry at its populace on the crust.. or maybe experts telling us that doomsdays is just around the corner. But just stop and think.. our few decades of life each of us have on this planet are simply a tiny spoke in the wheel of human history---and prehuman history was even longer!

Mother Nature may need a rolaid, but it's not out of control... It's guided by a power larger than any one of us.

Prayers for those that nature hurts, but it's all apart of a grander scheme that no one on earth understands, regardless of the amount of Ps, Hs, and Ds after their name..