WHY - A LOGICAL EXPLANATION OF LIFE

                         

WHY - A LOGICAL EXPLANATION OF LIFE

What are the odds that you‟d be here today? For all practical purposes there‟s a 1 in infinity chance. Imagine all the potential beings who would have gotten the chance to exist had things turned out differently. Imagine how they would scream in the darkness with jealousy that you received this coveted chance and they didn‟t. Some people might call that destiny (though there‟s no scientific evidence that destiny exists), but even it was a matter of pure chance that you, specifically, should be alive, it‟s no accident that the universe or life exists. There was a reason The Big Expansion happened and life emerged on earth. We don‟t know what that reason is, but everything happens as a result of cause and effect. If there was a cause there was a reason (even if that reason is purely scientific). If there was a reason there was a purpose. If there was a
purpose then there is value in the life of any creature capable of fulfilling that purpose.

Unfortunately, you weren‟t born with a price tag on your toe. So you can only deduce how valuable your life is, but there‟s evidence of your value in how much work went into creating you. Remember, it didn‟t take 9 months to create you. It took 14.7 billion years. The matter in your body today was present at the Big Expansion. It has traveled the length of the universe. Galaxies rose and fell around you in the great cosmic tidal wave that brought about the conditions necessary for you to be born. The matter in your body used to be in a star. It might have been part of a dinosaur. You might have been in the water drunk by your favorite historical figure.

Spending your entire life on this familiar planet it‟s easy to take yourself for granted while perceiving the beautiful nebulas and globular clusters in the sky as miraculous celestial bodies, but look at earth from their point of view. You‟re a celestial body too. In fact, you‟re even more amazing than the most beautiful astronomical phenomenon. The fact that you, a sentient being, aware of your own existence and capable of self-determination, arose from inanimate matter is as miraculous as The Big Expansion its self.
The contradictory nature of your existence raises some more penetrating questions. We don‟t know why the universe exists at all, but we know that the physical universe is meticulously, mathematically, and consistently designed and behaves according to fixed, unwavering rules. Why and how is it that these rules exist? How is it that those rules allowed for the sublimation of living creatures whose bodies are meticulously, mathematically, and consistently designed? Why is heredity mathematically
predictable? Chance isn‟t predictable. So evolution must not be entirely the product of chance. If that‟s true then what else could it be the product of?