Credence: God, Science and Life
(11/10/2004)

THE year of 1973 Reader’s Digest published a quotation of the most famous scientist of the era, Albert Einstein, which relates the science with the religion. The quotation was like this, “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind”. By this phrase Einstein has given his perpetual view on the existence of relation between the God and science. There have been tremendous efforts seen already from several decades solving the mysteries of the life, universe and the eternal unknown power. For example, the perplexing formation of crop circles in Southern England, Canada, many around ancient sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill (the largest manmade mound in Europe) is termed as the greatest mystery of the modern times. The core mystery of these aspects is always regarded as the unsolved mysteries. Lots of efforts were put forward, very intellectually, to solve the issues in various ways like mathematically and physically. However, all the theories end up as a speculation rather than giving a very solid reason.

The main body that has taken part to build life in the universe were those scattered millions and trillions of protons and neutrons, which was generated after the occurrence of the Big-Bang, which was a massive explosion held in the space 15 billion years ago. The Big-Bang was proposed by Edwin Hubble. However, the theory has a lot of issues, it has the capability to answer the queries that arise in the field of the universe creation, the energy and the formation of the very first deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which leads the way to solve the issue of the creation of life in the very Earth rather than other planets in this Milky Way.

A French scientist named as Laplace was the first man, who has publicly presented the relation of the particle at the present time with its past and future. He stated the theory of “Scientific determinism”. This theory states that if the position and the speed of any particle are known at an instant of the time then, the past and the future of the particle can be calculated. This means that we would be able to know about the things happened in the past and that will happen in the future. The theory of relativity, given by Einstein, also proved, in a different way, that if a particle can travel faster than the light particle then it can go back in to its past and in to the future. Around 1926, a German scientist named Werner Heisenberg put his effort and proved that Laplace was wrong about the theory of scientific determinism. Heisenberg had given the theory of Uncertainty, which is also known as “Principle of Uncertainty”, which mathematically states that there is not a way, where one can calculate the position and speed of a particle at a same time and vice versa. However, Einstein didn’t felt happy about the principle of uncertainty. He had a deep emotional attachment to the scientific determinism. He summed up by saying his famous phrase, “God doesn’t play dice”, stating that the reality of all of the unsolved mysteries, which obeys scientific laws, might be known to the God only. He further says that, “How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?” “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality”. Then people stated his view as the “Hidden variable theory”. However, later on, a British physicist, named John Bell experimentally proved, Einstein was wrong when he said about God. Bell stated that the position and speed of a particle cannot be known in anyway at a same time. However, looking at the results of the experiments, other scientist says that God do play dice to solve the issue. Like Stephen Hawking once stated, on his public lecture that “God does play dice with the universe”. However, Einstein always believed in the fact of the nature, which dragged, dragging and will drag, humans around by the nose, hiding its secrets. Thus, he had once said that, “Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose”.

When one will go through the issue of the life, story and mysteries of the universe and the celestial bodies in the regular motion in the far sky, the power and the existence of the energy of the matter to hold through these billion years, which created life on the Earth by the combination and the chain formation of DNA and ribo-NA (RNA), then, it will give a brief feeling of existence of some perpetual energy which is handling the processing of these universes (WE ARE NOT ALONE; THERE ARE PARALLEL UNIVERSES). This article is not written to specifically create a relationship between god and science, but to raise a question what is that perpetual energy which is holding these all galactic, biological and rest of other actions that takes place on the universe and obey the definite law of science, may be comprehensive or incomprehensive. Above all of these scientific aspects, an interesting fact is that, the science and religion both agrees on a same thing about the end of this universe. They both believe that this universe and all this actions are not designed to continue forever. According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, most stars will have burnt out, and the universe will be approaching a state of complete disorder in another 15 billion years or so. So, almost all of the scientist, physicist and astrologist do have belief in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the earth would be condemned in another 10-15 billion years. In the same way, mythological epics, of several different religions has the same view on the end of the universe, only difference is the duration of time that the end is heading towards us.

There have been lot of theories raised and felled out to solves all the mystery about core energy, which has still has got its beauty to easily perplex us. That beauty shouldn’t be disturbed, in other way, the author believe that no one on earth will come, had came or are there at present, who can find out the truth of all these questions. All only one can do is speculating things. I want to end here now, because it will go on and on, if we go on asking questions which are not made for us to answer, or at least we can’t. I thought to end up with other very meaningful thoughts once said by Albert Einstein, which goes like this,
“A human is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison
for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”

“LEAVE THE COMPLEXITIES TO THE GOD, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO KNOW HIM, UNLESS WE DON’T STAY IN THIS DIMENSION”

By :- Milan Khanal
Australia
 

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