Cosmosis

Posted at September 11, 2010

Supernova

Have you ever spent time pondering why things exist? Why we exist? I was watching a show last night and I found out. We exist because some star exploded like a gazillion years ago and the dust left over formed our planet and us along with it. That the fusion inside that star is what forms the molecules of all the elements that make up matter, including us, and we are just the leftovers from this cosmic explosion. I have heard lately that famed physicist, Steven Hawking, also currently claims that science can now rule out the necessity of a “god” in creation. That all that is necessary are the laws of physics. Yea, but why do those laws exist in the first place? I mean, doesn’t the enactment of a “law” require some divine deliberative body? I have to say I am more than a bit confused by all this. So the suggestion is that “god” really is an exploded star? But wait, what about those “things” that can’t be reduced to molecular elements. Were our thoughts and feelings, our capacity to imagine, dream, be creative, be sad, be happy, be angry….were all those fused and then released during this cosmic catastrophe? What are those things made of? Can a star think? It would seem to me that trying to explain creation in this way leaves a huge unanswered gap. And that is, where do thoughts and feelings originate and why do we humans seem to have a corner on that ability? In short, there has to be some originator of this intelligence, or else what makes the difference in us being just a mound of flesh versus the living, breathing and thinking person that we are? Can an exploded star solve that mystery? I seriously doubt it, but if someone out there can enlighten me, I am a dry sponge ready to soak up your knowledge. But make sure you also answer this question for me in the process…what elements from that exploded star created thought…created consciousness? Could it really be that my capacity to think about these things originated from an inanimate object that was completely devoid of that same capacity? If that is the suggestion, then where, how and (most importantly) why did that “capacity” enter into the picture.