"In nature there are
neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Robert Green Ingersoll
American social activist, orator and agnostic (1833—1899)
(Please, don’t forget, we are part of
nature.)
I shall no longer pretend to follow in Richard Dawkins’s illustrious footsteps.
Any man who purports that the phenomenal Universe ‘happened’ out of nothing, or
even out of a ‘Big Bang’, does not deserve to be taken seriously. On the other
hand, I do like his sense of humour. Anything he does not understand he deems
to be nonsense. Like the Bible, which he, (as well as all people who wish to
use it to control people’s minds, behaviour, and pocket), regards as a
religious document, whereas in fact, it has nothing whatsoever to do with any
religion.
The Bible is no more and no
less than a compendium of knowledge, compiled over countless millennia, which suggests how to lead a happy life. Hence, it teaches us, how to
create our own phenomenal reality.
Admittedly, it has been usurped by various religious fraternities, and
used it as a carrot and stick to control those of weaker minds, or even just
softer hearts. Don’t get me wrong: there are a few bona fide saints amongst their ranks. Very few, and very many
ersatz saints who had been canonized for political purposes. Just like the
Noble Prize.
While I still admire Mr. Dawkins’s predisposition to praise the
literary merits of the King James Bible of 1611, while ignoring its content, I
do wish he’d stop deluding himself that he has any idea what the Bible is
about. For that one needs at least an elementary knowledge of symbolism, of
which he is sadly bereft. He might find my DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM of
some help.
By contrast, the rest of our illustrious scientists continue to treat the Universe as
a conglomerate of material objects, completely ignoring the brighter minds
amongst them who reached the conclusion some time ago, that ALL IS ENERGY. Not
only that all matter could be converted
to energy as in E=MC2 but,
as an example, like a hydrogen atom that consists of 99.9999999999996% empty space, and the essence of the remainder is still energy.
And then, in 1927 Louis de Broglie demonstrated the wave-like behaviour
of particles which became the basis of the quantum mechanics, which also, to
this day manages to confuse even the best brains in the scientific community.
De Broglie was followed by Max Planck, Schrodinger, Born, Heisenberg,
Dirac, Bohr, not to mention our dear old Albert Einstein. Finally Richard
Feynman, who (together with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian
Schwinger) has been awarded the
Nobel Prize for “their fundamental work in
quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of
elementary particles.”
Having been awarded the Nobel Prize, Richard Feynman publically assured
us that:
“It is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics.”
I am delighted to belong to such
an illustrious fraternity of famous, ignorant scientists. I, too, am ignorant.
(To be continued)
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