A Serious Introspection Jerry - Apr 10, 2010
So I’m taking a break (or rather another of my countless breaks I’ve taken already) streaming stuff to watch. A particular video caught my eye; it was a documentary of life. Well, it was more of searching for life on other planets than it was to life already existing on Earth. Though it had nothing to do with kidney function (yes, I’m studying physiology), it truly got me thinking about life when the host, PhD. Brian Cox, said about the true value humans are worth if no other life existed in the universe. We are just a speck of dust compared to the vastness of the universe and even more tiny to the omnipresence of God itself. If life was only found our own unique planet, which so happened to be at some distance away from the sun, surviving the slight opportunity of death by heat or cold, it just goes to show that something like the Big Bang couldn’t of truly created us. The chance of a just a perfect mixture is all too small, even smaller than winning a lottery for jackpot of $2 trillion. God definitely must have had a role in all of this. I know this is just my opinion and I am not forcing someone to believe in it, but it’s just too remarkable to say that everything arose from just chance alone – the odds are just to hard to be believed by any normal human. Now that I think about it, if it weren’t for life to exist so precisely, I probably wouldn’t be here studying for my physiology exam anyways.
For the past couple of nights, I’ve read some interesting quotes from a book called Soul Cravings, by Erwin Raphael McManus. It’s a novel with the attempt of unifying people’s thirst for meaning in life to God, and is a very neutral read. What made me contemplate deeply was his interpretation of mankind’s lust for curiosity. He says its easy to answer the superficial questions that answer the perceived world as is, but becomes unimaginably hard to answer the purpose of all that is perceived and experienced – why?. We tend to ramble on with life, getting a good education, degree, family, car, etc., but have never stopped to ask, “Why do we need a good education, car, degree, career, etc.?” Why do we need all these to satisfy ourselves when the basics are we need to live off of? A question seen so ubiquitously has, yet such an attenuated answer. We result to science, logic, reason, and emotion to explain all that we questioned about and to attempt to answer the purpose. It’s based on the laws of physics and nature; everything happened to fit just by chance. This seems to be what science has brought us to, but it hasn’t quite explained something else – the human spirit and soul.
As what McManus wrote:
Science can explain the human brain, flounders in attempts to explain the human mind and fails completely when it comes to the human spirit.
