Science Stuff That Should Blow Your Mind and Humble You and Lead You Towards God

Dear Readers,

I recently watched Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary by Ben Stein about how professors who teach Intelligent Design lose their jobs and don’t get tenure and stuff.

I’m also in the middle of reading Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D’Souza, and it’s blowing my mind.

Like did you know that if the moon wasn’t there, we wouldn’t have seasons? (And if we didn’t have seasons, we couldn’t grow food, probably.)

And did you know that Jupiter has absorbed a bunch of meteoroids that probably could have destroyed the Earth? So if Jupiter wasn’t there, we’d probably all die, or already be dead.

And if the Earth was a little closer to the Sun, we’d all burn up and die. Did you know that?

And if the Earth was a little farther away from the Sun, we’d all freeze and die? Did you know that?

Well,

all that scientific stuff goes to show that this Earth seems especially suited to harbor human life.

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth… for humans to live on.

And did you know that scientists can’t figure out what the mind is all about? They can sort of figure out a lot about the brain- they can dissect it and weigh it and measure it and poke it and see what happens, but they can’t figure out consciousness.

Do thoughts have mass? That’s something that we can’t currently determine, scientifically.

Ever heard of dark matter?

Dark matter makes up 95% of the Universe, and we have no way of detecting or studying dark matter. Our current laws of physics only apply to the 5% of regular matter.

So how can scientists say that they know all about the Universe and they know about the origin and purpose of humankind if they’re really only able to observe and talk about 5% of the Universe?

And if you observe an atom, it behaves differently than if you don’t observe it.

Bwaaaaah!!!

All that stuff should humble you. It should make you cower at the mystery of the universe. It should make you kneel down and try to get God to reveal the important stuff to you.

Remember this poem:

"Conversation Among Mountains"

You ask why I live
in these green mountains

I smile
can’t answer

I am completely at peace
a peach blossom
sails past
on the current

there are worlds
beyond this one

(written by Li Po, translated by David Young)

Meditation led Li Po to the conclusion that "there are worlds beyond this one." That's what I think, too.

Strange how studying science leads some people toward God, and some people away from God.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa