After a long and harrowing week, like I am sure you had too, I finally kicked back and watched a new program on the Science Channel. The program was called "Curiosity". It featured Stephan Hawking and his subject was that science had come to the point where it did not need God to explain the creation of the Universe.
Science could explain the what, the how, the where and the when. But the Theologians retorted that it was God that provided the why and we have not gotten an answer for that as yet.
The great Albert Einstein, who had laid the foundation for all of science as we know it today, said that "he wanted to know the mind of God". That is he wanted to know what God had in mind when He created the Universe or why did He do it. And this the scientists have not been able to do. This also brought into focus the question of life after death which science has a hard time getting its head around. And what about quantum physics where particles keep winking in and out of existence? What about the Cosmos where Stars are blowing up in spectacular supernovae and then re-forming as matter accretes with matter? Science has a perfect description of these phenomena and even has crafted mathematical language to describe it so that they may predict these events. But to ask what is the purpose of all this leads to a dull dead silence.
One scientist even invoked consciousness saying that he did not know what happens to consciousness after we are dead. The same scientific mind espouses the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed as a universal law. But more and more of our research on the brain has shown that consciousness is an energetic process. So then can we conclude that consciousness too can never be destroyed? And if so where does it go after we die? Perhaps to another universe to be born again since another scientific point of view takes the position that there are a multitude of universes in existence.
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