Miracles should be managed with care and awe.
There
is cautious celebration over the new discovery of the gravitational
waves, the presumed "aftershock of the Big Bang," by BICEP2. This moment
in creation's history brought the great mysteries of science into
being: Time, light, mass, energy, the strong and weak forces--all did
not exist, then did. Thus began the complexities of our physical world.
From the laws of physics to the building blocks of rock and stone and
trees to us--everything that was or is was created then. Except one
thing: information. It was not until the energy cascade created DNA that
nature had a storage system for information, a system that could be
handed on, that could outlast the individual who was a function of it.
Information--and the potential for Knowledge.
And
then something completely new happened. People, one of the many
creations of that DNA, created another miracle: They created their own
information storage system completely outside the laws that created
them. They created Language and Culture, two new additions to the
universe of the Big Bang, two new ways of collecting Information. And
Knowledge.
After 13 Billion years, a way appeared for creation to understand itself.
No comments:
Post a Comment