Life Lessons
We Have The Smoking Gun
But who committed the crime of creation?
As is my want, as the world goes about its daily business, I often sit out on my porch pondering upon deep matters such as the origins of the universe, who we are and how did we get here. It doesn't hurt to think sometimes.
Before anything let me first of all say that I am very far from being an expert on anything, most especially the origins of the universe. That being said, I am familiar with the Big Bang Theory as an explanation of how the universe all began and has since proceeded about its business.
For many decades the scientific community was divided between those who firmly believed in what is known as the steady state model which was characterised by a belief in the eternity of the universe, meaning it has always been there and it always will be.
The Big Bang Theory holds that around about thirteen and a half billion years ago there was a cosmic explosive event arising from a point of singularity of great temperature and density. It is believed that since that time the universe has been going through a period of expansion, which to this day is still happening and which has brought with it all that we know of the universe that we inhabit.
Let us put those two models to one side a moment and turn our attention to religion. We have it on the authority of the bible no less that......
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Now I am not here to preach religion. However, the biblical version of events has at least one saving grace that the other two do not. It tells us quite clearly who pulled the rigger on that smoking gun. And although to many the idea of God comes across as implausible, naming a suspect with a twitchy finger counts for a lot.
In a recent chat with fellow Medium writer Ulf Wolf he commented that the problem is that what we have throughout the entire universe reeks of intelligence. That is to say, that whole universe, including the planet that we inhabit, along with all forms of earthly life, demonstrate the workings of intelligence, the intelligence of a higher intellect, call it what you like.
In my experience random, unintended if you like, explosive events usually, make that always, are the result of an act/acts of stupidity and only create a big, horribly ugly mess. So what am I missing here?
Let me ask the advocates of the Big Bang Theory one question; what came before the existence of that point of singularity? In other words, where did the point of singularity come from? As a point of conjecture, is it at all possible that in fact before the point of singularity there was in existence another universe which collapsed in on itself?
Let us presume upon the idea of oscillation. Could it be that there is an eternal side to all of this in as much as the universe is eternally oscillating between a point of singularly and maximum expansion? What's more, who is to say if this is or is not an eternal cycle of contraction and expansion? It is no less an idea than any other.
Perhaps the universe is, in its entirety, some sort of cosmic being of which we here on earth are but a minuscule part. That being is born, it lives and it dies, it is re-born and lives again, and so on and so forth ad infinitum. Perhaps in the end, the universe itself is its own creator.
Now this brings me conveniently back to the question of intelligence. Is intelligence simply a human construct, or is it a universal absolute paradigm? I'll take it as the latter and whichever model you choose to believe in, Big Bang or otherwise, it simply has to include the concept of intelligence. Think about the movements of the stars and galaxies, think about life here on earth, the seasonal cycles, the synchronicity within and between all the different life forms that inhabit the earth. Are you really asking me to believe that is all the work of a random cosmic event and chance that took place billions of years ago with without the slightest indication of a prime mover? For me that is every bit as much a flight of fancy as the version of events proposed by the St James Bible.
The super abundance of intelligence throughout the cosmos is undeniable. The question is, where did it come from? Has it always been there? And who, if anybody, is controlling it all? Is it possible that each and every single atom and sub atomic particle has its own unique self regulating intelligence quotient that makes it behave the way that it does? The answer is yes, we do know that to be true by deduction.
Let's go back to that point of singularity. How did it get there, who or what put it there? How did that point of singularity happen to have all that was needed to create all that it has? Is the point of singularity that which Christians call God? Or did the prime mover God concept create the point of singularity? Questions upon questions about the great mystery that has plagued us from our beginning, whenever that was. Who are we, where did we come from, why are we here, where are we going?
The scientific community can bombard me with all that they have at their disposal, but the one thing they cannot do is satisfactorily give us definitive answers to those eternal questions. For this reason I do not buy into any Big Bang Theory as the definitive answer no matter how convincing it may sound.
I, we, would like to know who or what pulled that trigger on the smoking gun to commit the crime of creation. In the meantime I am left with the sobering thought that we all live on a piece of cosmic shrapnel from an explosion that went off billions of years ago.
My last word on this matter is that what we have here simply HAD to be the workings of a higher intelligence, an intelligence (God?) we cannot even begin to grasp let alone emulate. There is no way it is all the result of the randomness of pure scientific chance.