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The fact that very
strict laws govern the Universe, science has already discovered,
verified and admitted, and for quite some time now. So on the behalf
of science, the recognition of these laws has been continuous and
growing.
Since the first astronomical discoveries of ancient
people through the solid foundations of Newton's classical physics,
until arriving at the not so obvious postulates of the quantum
physics; with its strange “principal of uncertainty”, expanded time,
events that only exist when observed and others even stranger still
that are even more difficult to understand, this has been in progress.
With further advances of scientific discoveries, in
its multiple fields of work, it increasingly verifies an immense order
in everything. The coherent results of its experiments; be they simple
or complex, testifies the existence of laws in the Universe, according
to which the phenomena are formed. They are perennial and unchangeable
laws that in many cases, it is even possible to foresee the result of
an experiment even before its execution. And in the cases where the
result is not predictable, it can be affirmed in advance, with
absolute safety, that it will never be in conflict with the known
laws.
In each new phenomenon discovered by science, the
performance of those same inflexible laws is recognized.
The study of the “fractals”, for example, among
other effects demonstrates that when enlarging the view in microscopic
scale of an any natural element, no matter how many times it may be,
the same geometric form always reappears, this also includes the
magnificent spiral formations, re-entrances and saliencies of
geological appearance. It is a world in itself, which emotes by its
unexpected beauty something that has been totally unknown of until
recently. For example, in natural formations that until now had been
considered as contingent, like the simple snow flake, it was
discovered, in a well magnified scale of observation, an unsuspected
order that follows an unalterable pattern right through.
Lately, it is Biology that has contributed with a
surprisingly large amount of such material to the annals of
mathematical science:
A live cell has about twenty amino acids, whose
functions depend on two thousand specific enzymes. Researchers have
discovered that the probability of half these enzymes, thus a
thousand, assemble in an orderly way, according to the cell, it is a
chance of 10 over a 1,000. This number is represented by the figure 1
followed by a thousand zeros... Only for us to have a faint idea of
what this means, it is enough to consider that the size of the
observable Universe now is in the order of 10 over 28 centimeters,
that means, a number of centimeters represented by the figure 1
followed by twenty-eight zeros. If one day that number arrives at 10
over 29 centimeters, it will mean that the observable Universe will
have increased by ten times. A chance in 10 over a 1,000 for the
contingently ordered arrangement of half the enzymes of a cell,
simply, is it the same as saying that the possibility of the life
having appeared by chance in probabilistic terms is zero.
Are they not impressive discoveries? Of course they
are. So much so that they would leave anyone amazed in astonishment.
However, there is still something more impressive
amidst all of these scientific discoveries. There is something capable
of leaving an attentive observer even more perplexed with these
fantastic discoveries. It is, the surprising lack of scientific
interest in knowing, Who in fact put these laws into the Universe. By
the way, laws that science itself proved to exist and tries to
understand with growing accuracy and has already verified by them to
be absolutely uniform and impossible to bypass.
If earthly human laws, notoriously imperfect and
fragmentary, have well-known authors, how can one suppose that these
universal laws, intangible in their perfection and impassible in their
inclusion, could have appeared from nothing? By what phenomenon,
through the countless scientific studies in the last millennia was it
stated that perfection could have appeared by chance?
What makes science, that is so demanding in
tangible and measurable results unable to see for itself the obvious
conclusion, of an infantile obviousness, that only a superior Will
could have inserted laws like this, so perfect and understanding, into
the Universe? What strange and powerful force is this, what shuts the
lips of sciences’ disciples and impedes them from mumbling the word
“God” to themselves? Intellectual pride? Or is it the presumption of
knowledge? Fear? Shame?
Without a doubt a little of everything, added to
the voluntary spiritual atrophy of these humans, that previously
condemn as nonexistent or lacking sense, whatever they cannot see,
weigh, or measure... That, wanting (or defenseless) of the most
elementary sense of ridicule affirm, “that there is no proof” of the
existence of a Supreme Being, while they themselves constitute the
most evident proof...
If the scientists could reach the conclusion that
only a Creator could insert laws in the work of Creation, a world of
new discoveries would open up to them immediately. They would not be
so firmly tied to the restricted wondering of the intellect, but they
would principally use their spiritual capacities. And thus free
themselves of the nickname “scientists”, for they would have reached
to the stage of “sage.”
And the wiser they become, through this growing
recognition, the humbler they would be too. With respect to this, you
can be absolutely sure. The harmful weed of presumption can only
flourish in soil withered by stupidity. And against stupidity, as you
well know, even gods would fight in vain...
With the growing recognition, on catching a glimpse
of the existence of a Wisdom and an order that surpasses by far the
visibly and touchable physical phenomena, the former-scientists would
understand just how little, in fact, they know of the work of
Creation. And then they would arrive, finally, at the evolutionary
state that Socrates had already reached 2,400 years ago, that made him
the wisest man of his time, for he was “the only one who knew that he
knew nothing.”
Scientists today, with their dormant spirits and
intellectual presumption, are unhappy and noxious creatures in the
complex whole of Creation. The wise persons of tomorrow, with their
awakened and humble spirits, will irradiate happiness of life and will
be really useful servants in the vineyard of the Master.
* In the second part of this essay we will examine
some concrete examples of the visible earthly effects of the universal
laws.
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