the big bang theory is not the answer..........

As human beings, we all have self-
awareness, the awareness that we
exist as an individual being, driving
us to ask such questions as: Where
did I come from? How did I get here?
What is my purpose in life? Other
animals may also have self-awareness
to a greater or lesser extent, though,
it is unlikely that a chicken will be
asking questions about the meaning
of life as it scratches for corn. The
domestic dog, which has been bred
to be 'man's best friend', may or may
not have self awareness, though my
son's Alsatian dog, Scout, seems to
believe that his master, Sean, is a god,
and shows his devotion by leaving
offerings of half eaten rats on his
lawn every morning.
Although, we do not really know
much about the self-awareness of
other animals, as human beings, we
ask big questions about where we
come from, and how this world came
into being. In ancient times, people
worshiped the sun, or various
gods that represented the forces
of nature, such as Thor, the god of
thunder. Then from this pantheon
of gods, we developed monotheism,
the worship of one God whether
the Jewish God, the Christian God
or the Muslim God. Understanding
where we came from, or the meaning
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of life, lay first within the sphere of
mythology, then philosophy and
religion, now we look to physics and
mathematics. Religion still plays a
fundamental role in helping us to
make sense of life, and science is no
necessarily in conflict with religion.
But in the middle ages, they saw it
differently and people were burned
at the stake, as heretics and witches,
if their scientific beliefs differed from
the accepted orthodox religious
beliefs of the time.
Today, science has been accepted
as a valid way to understand the
world and within the last 150 years,
many modern scientific beliefs have
impacted our world view, such as
the world being round and revolving
around the sun. Before that, we
thought that the world was flat
and stationary and everything else
revolved around us (some people
still believe that the world revolves
around them). In the 20th century,
Einstein put forward the theory of
relativity and subsequently we have
had an 'explosion' (pardon the pun)
of theories in quantum physics. I do
not pretend to understand all this
stuff, and much of it, is exactly what
it says - theory, because one cannot
see the particles, pathways and
waves that it is talking about. I have
no idea what a quart is, but I know
it is hypothesized and makes sense
to quantum physicists. Most of the
classical laws of nature break down
when one starts to look at matter in
terms of protons, neutrons, photons
and quarks and measurements of
events, which took place at far greater
than the speed of light. In fact, one
cannot even carry out measurements
since the act of measuring changes
the measurement itself.
Many of the theories of the
origin of life cannot be proved,
but the postulations are consistent
with observations of the galaxy,
and with certain measurements
and experiments which have been
carried out with more powerful
telescopes and means of detecting
and measuring minute differences in
temperature and cosmic radiation. So,
theories postulate that thirteen-and-
a-half billion years ago, the galaxy
came into existence through an event,
which has come to be known as the
'big bang', Before that, time was
another dimension of matter and
energy and all matter was condensed
into an incredibly hot and dense
small ball, which then exploded more
rapidly, than the speed of light and
threw out the universe as we know
it. Our solar system was one small
particle of this explosion and the
conditions were such that over the
past 13 billion years, our planet has
been able to create the conditions for
complex life. Homo Sapiens has been
on this planet only a tiny fraction of
that time, but during that tiny amount
of time, we have developed so rapidly
and become so dominant over other
species, that we are in danger of
destroying the very planet we live on.
So, we may well be the author of our
own destruction.
There are those who cannot accept
such a theory of how we came into
being, and feel it makes more sense
to believe the creation story from
the Bible - that the world as we
know it came into being in six days.
However, both theories only explain
the how, and not the why, or what is
our purpose. For me, it is much more
important to have a sense of direction
and purpose in life as an individual,
than it is to understand the detail of
how we came to be here.
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