Scientific Spirituality: A Cosmic Perspective of Life
Let me start off this by saying that after much thinking and a few influences from several famous Physicists, that I now would say that I believe in God. Now before you get on my case, I suggest hearing me out fully because this really shouldn’t be a surprise after knowing me and hearing my stance on this. The God I believe in can not be found in any religions that exist today because it is not anthropomorphic, nor is it able to have a gender ascribed to it and it is far from being any kind of personal God that is able to answer prays. No, the God I believe is the culmination of all the forces that drives this universe that we live in. An abstraction that keeps the universe in harmony that has let molecular machines like ourselves to exist and proliferate on this planet Earth. Really, one could argue that I have chosen to just to name the force of the universe God and I feel they would be correct but there are still reasons why I probably could never believe in a personal God that is found in the Abrahamic religions but these are the same reasons that drives my spirituality which transcends all this. The universe is vast and the Earth itself is nothing but a speck in this enormous universe that I could never believe that God would just pay attention like we are his ants in an ant farm instead it is a Cosmic force that provides the harmony of this Universe that has made life possible and it is this that drives my spirituality which got it’s birth from viewing the universe from the perspective that science has revealed to us.
It began with the epiphany of realizing how interconnected everything is, everything in this universe is connected. All life is connected from those first cells to us, all of us are related because there is an unbroken thread that stretches from these first cells to us. It thrills me that we live in Universe that would allow for the development of the molecular machines that we are. These natural laws which rule the universe allowed for our development and it is the cosmic forces that allowed for the Earth to be created in the first place because we and the Earth are made of star stuff, we are made from the atoms that were made during a star’s life time and was released after that star had died thus creating the materials needed to build planets and at least on this planet, the molecules that would develop into the life on this planet. The molecules in your body, in my body are traceable to some of the most profound cosmic events that we have known; do you know how amazing that is? We are all connected to each other through the evolution of life, to the Earth because it is from these materials that the first cells developed and to the universe because the elements were developed from the cosmic forces that drive the universe. This to me is inspiring more than anything in the world. Life was able to exist because of the harmony of the universe.
Once the molecules came together and formed the first cells, creating the first form of life and these continued to development and evolve. All the cells that have existed are a triumph of Natural Selection, the force that would one day spawn a way for the cosmos to know itself. The imagination of nature is so much greater than our own. This process of evolution by natural selection is such an amazing force that we owe our existance to it, because this universe allowed for the development of molecule machines that we are. Now that the humans have developed we have become self-aware and have started to contemplate the cosmos, star stuff contemplating stars, we are literally a way for the cosmos to know itself. These molecules that have momentarily come together to be you are starting to ask questions about our origins which begins at the beginning of our cosmos.
Now it is not science that I am what one could call “worshipping” because science is only a tool that is used to discover things about the universe, science is the way we discovered all this but it is just having this knowledge about the universe is thrilling and I am definitely glad that we have had science to discover these inspiring things about the universe. It is just that science is the best tool to discover how the universe works.
To me, these revelations are inspiring and really make me celebrate what life is, where life came from, where life is going and what other kinds of life might be out there. There is no despair within in these thoughts, only excitement for this awesome universe.
It began with the epiphany of realizing how interconnected everything is, everything in this universe is connected. All life is connected from those first cells to us, all of us are related because there is an unbroken thread that stretches from these first cells to us. It thrills me that we live in Universe that would allow for the development of the molecular machines that we are. These natural laws which rule the universe allowed for our development and it is the cosmic forces that allowed for the Earth to be created in the first place because we and the Earth are made of star stuff, we are made from the atoms that were made during a star’s life time and was released after that star had died thus creating the materials needed to build planets and at least on this planet, the molecules that would develop into the life on this planet. The molecules in your body, in my body are traceable to some of the most profound cosmic events that we have known; do you know how amazing that is? We are all connected to each other through the evolution of life, to the Earth because it is from these materials that the first cells developed and to the universe because the elements were developed from the cosmic forces that drive the universe. This to me is inspiring more than anything in the world. Life was able to exist because of the harmony of the universe.
Once the molecules came together and formed the first cells, creating the first form of life and these continued to development and evolve. All the cells that have existed are a triumph of Natural Selection, the force that would one day spawn a way for the cosmos to know itself. The imagination of nature is so much greater than our own. This process of evolution by natural selection is such an amazing force that we owe our existance to it, because this universe allowed for the development of molecule machines that we are. Now that the humans have developed we have become self-aware and have started to contemplate the cosmos, star stuff contemplating stars, we are literally a way for the cosmos to know itself. These molecules that have momentarily come together to be you are starting to ask questions about our origins which begins at the beginning of our cosmos.
Now it is not science that I am what one could call “worshipping” because science is only a tool that is used to discover things about the universe, science is the way we discovered all this but it is just having this knowledge about the universe is thrilling and I am definitely glad that we have had science to discover these inspiring things about the universe. It is just that science is the best tool to discover how the universe works.
To me, these revelations are inspiring and really make me celebrate what life is, where life came from, where life is going and what other kinds of life might be out there. There is no despair within in these thoughts, only excitement for this awesome universe.