Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

I received a message from someone yesterday saying that I am not being specific enough on this blog. I wrote back and told him I can operate a wheelbarrow and everything else is instinct and intuition.  Those of you that follow my thinking, and I have a huge amount of sympathy for you and don't think there is a cure for that, understand the point I was trying to make to this man.  We are talking about issues and facts that are sitting right in front of our face.  So I am not going to bore you with the scientific theories about evolution.  I am going to point out that science has discovered a species called dinosaurs and that the Bible, the Koran and most other religious texts say nothing about them.  Not particularly scientific but true.

As we talked about yesterday, it is clear there is some order to the universe.  As a friend pointed out this morning in a message, if the moon and its orbit was off just a fraction things would be as romantic as they are when we stand on the beach with someone special and look up at the moonlight and feel all kinds of chemicals bouncing around.  We would feel chemicals bouncing around but not from romance..it would be from the fear of that green cheese orb coming straight at us. It is hard to be romantic when you have a giant celestial body coming at you.  Fortunately though, we can be romantic under the moonlight because somehow our nearest neighbor and creator of moods to stays where it is supposed to.  The sun, for example, is 93 million miles from the earth.  If it were just a few miles closer we would not have to worry about making coffee this morning, paying bills or having a romantic moment under the moonlight.  There would be no moonlight and there would be no us.  So it is pretty clear to my feeble brain that in this Big Bang that science tells us was the opening salvo of creation, things turned out ok for a random act. That is the kind of good fortune that would make any gambler in Las Vegas green with envy!  

The problem is that despite the seemingly ordered nature of the universe around us we have stuff flying around out there that is not in the right place at times.  Astronomers were gleeful to be able to photograph a comet hitting the surface of Jupiter a couple years ago and are still observing the rather sizable dent it left.  I would like to see how gleeful they would have been if that stray comet was headed for earth. There is evidence that we have had encounters like that with some rather off course celestial bodies. One in particular hit what is now the Gulf of Mexico and anialated the dinosaurs and whatever else was alive on our planet at the time. This is only a theory of course because no news crews were around to cover that event in history and I am not clear the video would have survived anyway.  Clearly things are not as perfect as they appear and in fact, we know that the universe in  constant flux, stars being created and others in their death throes all of which is about as big a fireworks display as is possible to imagine.  So if there is some celestial boss in all this , it was not very considerate in making things a little more stable for us. Kind of makes me wonder if things were planned as well as it seems at first glance.

I am going to suggest that the answers we seek are not going to be found in looking through a telescope.  They will not be found in understanding the laws of the universe, physics or chemistry although it certainly is a great help to know that these laws exist and that they operate in a way that are consistent and never violated.  That is why a comet, reacting to the law of gravity, hit Jupiter.  It had no choice.  If I were a comet and saw myself speeding toward a collision with an immense planet and my subsequent doom I would change course and take a slight detour to avoid disaster. Unfortunately it appears that all guidance systems, as they say in space lingo, are set on the same frequency.  One that can not violate the laws of the universe that someone or something put in place.  Whoever or whatever created this system has not come and apologized for putting us in this situation which seems to be the least it could do and just basic good manners. Many religions teach that Gos is the creator of the universe and is a loving being that cares for us.  Get out of here!!! That kind of plan, that puts in the way of randome flying objects does not seem very loving to me.   My Mom and Dad taught me to apologize for much less offensive behavior than putting a planet in jeopardy. Come on whoever you are out there, get with it, show some love!!!

If there is a force behind the creation of the big bang, the orgin of what we see as reality and the universe in all its complexity, right down to the little lady bug crawling up our leg in the grass at a summer picnic, it is clearly something that is not concerned with our best interest.  Our best interest from the perspective of living on this planet, is to stay on this planet as long as we can. To continue to exist.  To continue to function Will Robinson!!! As we all know for a fact, that is not what happens either.  We know our existence here is not permanent.  It is not something infinite which is a concept we can not understand anyway.  Each day is an eternity to many of us, especially when we are doing something distasteful or going through difficult times. We only have this limited view from the surface of one planet though. One telescope with a very weak lens and it may be that what seems to be apparent by observation of the laws of nature and the scientific facts around us, revealed through the course of history by our own persistence as a species in uncovering basic truth,  may not be all there is to the story of our place here.  As pointed out above it may be that some of the answers may lie within us.  If the universe and all that exists in it is controlled by these laws, and we are certainly no exception to that rule and therefore do not go floating off the ground because of one of them ( gravity), is it not possible there may be some rules of the universe that govern our thinking and feelings within also?  We will talk about that tomorrow...It is interesting to me at least and I appreciate any who are following this.  I have a law of nature right now that is calling me..first stop bathroom, second stop, mow 2 acre yard I have outside before it rains..we will continue in the morning...