Today's readings are unusual, the epistle especially so. It is little more than a salutation of Paul to the Corinthians, a hello and a declaration of their unique responsibility in the world as a people believing in revelation as an explanation for the world.
Indeed our species seems to be special. SETI, the off-again-on-again search for extraterrestial intelligence that is"listening" for non-random patterns of electromagnetic emissions such as radio or television waves to establish the existence of other intelligent life, continues to hear nothing. There are a lot of reasons--narrow time constraints and staggering distances are two important factors--but still, nothing. The welkin is silent.
So far sentient man is the only way the universe has of understanding itself.
Indeed our species seems to be special. SETI, the off-again-on-again search for extraterrestial intelligence that is"listening" for non-random patterns of electromagnetic emissions such as radio or television waves to establish the existence of other intelligent life, continues to hear nothing. There are a lot of reasons--narrow time constraints and staggering distances are two important factors--but still, nothing. The welkin is silent.
So far sentient man is the only way the universe has of understanding itself.
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