Sunday, May 7, 2023

Even the BIG BANG gets reduced to metaphysical poetry !

At best reasonable people can be reasonably certain about what genuine SCIENCE thinks it knows about the BIG BANG. To be sure there is a big difference between EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS and what we can know with our human brains . I am convinced that what we can know about OUR Universe, our BEGINNING, can confirm nothing about the existence or non-existence of the God of Christianity. As the French existentialist writer, Albert Camus ,reflected in an essay on the ABSURD : ultimately even cold hard science gets reduced to metaphysical poetry. Perhaps we should take a more ORGANIC view of the primal " field " of quantum foam NOTHINGNESS before the very beginning of TIME. That field was definitely comparable to a primal Garden of Eden which could grow its own its " seeds " of INFINITE POTENTIAL , each of which quickly coming into existence and passing out of existence , leaves behind " seeds " and new " fields " ( gardens ) of a more enduring VIABLE universe in which all sorts of WONDERS are possible including our GOOD EARTH in which LIFE itself evolved with infinite possibilities including fully CONSCIOUS human beings. And who knows if a real SATAN was not lurking way back then to mess up CREATION ? Who knows if SATAN is still a palpable EVIL PRESENCE even today 13 billion years after the BIG BANG ? IN THE BEGINNING there was DARKNESS and LIGHT ! AND " LET THERE BE LIGHT ! " If we can never become MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE , we can at least THANK GOD for the GOOD EARTH and take loving care of it ! Any INTELLIGENT species must be able to survive for at least a MILLION years to begin to understand the MIND OF GOD. WE have only just begun. Human wisdom does not culminate in the New Atheism ! So much contradiction in our own minds : Often enough LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL . And too often LIFE is a phantasmagoria of EVIL. meaninglessness. HOPE arises from the DARK ABYSS . Albert Camus quote in an essay on the ABSURD : [ "Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases. At the final stage you teach me that this wondrous and multicolored universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know.” ] Albert Camus

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