There are some mysteries in this Universe which science has not and cannot resolve. Either the human intellect is limited (needless to say, it is) or there are miracles (natural, Divine or otherwise ... it matters not).
So the mystery begins ...
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness."
http://www.biblegateway.com/...
These words seem meaningless. Undoubtedly they are meaningless. Humans have spent the last several thousand years trying to make sense of them and have failed miserably from the beginning until now.
What is God? Why does God exist? Why would God create anything? How did God create the Heavens and the Earth? How could such an omniscient omnipotent God create the Homo sapiens in such an incompetent fashion?
Science fails to resolve the mystery:
"If you have a habitable world that is sitting around for four, five or 10 billion years around a star, how are you going to stop it from forming life?
It's like taking a refrigerator, unplugging it, shutting the door and then coming back a couple of months later. You'd be amazed to find what's growing there," he said.
"That's what life's like. The fridge analogy may not be the same as the origins of life, but life is so tenacious, it's hard to stop.
"If you had a planet sitting there at the right temperature with water for a million years, something's going to come out of it."
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/...
Comparing the origin of life to what happens in an unplugged refrigerator is absurd. The refrigerator is filled with life. Life doesn't originate in a refrigerator.
Does life originate automatically in a sterile environment? Science has failed to verify that theory. Are the laws of Nature organized in such a manner that there is a natural compulsion for sterile chemicals to self organize into life? Science has failed to validate that theory.
How does life originate from non-life? No one knows. Perhaps no one will ever know. Here is a mystery which must remain unresolved.
Science's "window of opportunity" to resolve the mystery is closing fast, too. A bankrupt and insolvent nation (the United States, in case you don't know) cannot afford to finance this sort of research for very much longer. A depleted and destroyed planet (the Earth, in case you don't know) isn't going to remain hospitable to human life for long enough for some other nation to pick the baton dropped by the United States.
Science seems to have reached a dead end. The same may be said of technology, too. The gods of Technological Civilization are as prone to failure as the gods of the ancients.
Here is an hour long talk which is remarkable and fascinating and ironic (since one scientist is a priest):
The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Are We Alone?
http://fora.tv/...
Pay particular attention to what Lynn Rothschild says regarding the survival of technology vs. the survival of biological entities. The same principle applies with equal force to the survival of technological civilization vs. the survival of Nature.
Simply stated: Technology is dead and must always remain so. Nature is alive and will survive.
Humans need to formalate an entirely new relationship with Nature. After 10,000 years of destruction and warfare, humankind actually needs to formulate an entirely new manner of life.
But how is that at all possible since humankind has run out of ideas?
There's no tragedy in the Universe more tragic than the human tragedy.
Make peace with Nature while it is still possible. Extinction is forever.
David Mathews
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