Evolution redeemed the idea of Creation from the shackles of a necessary Higher being, but something still troubled the investigators who preferred to deny a Creator. They still researched, still analyzed, digging deeper and deeper in a quest to solve the mystery: was there a beginning to all this?
Man what drives you? What are you so relentlessly seeking out there in space? What makes you so determined to conquer the expanse of the heavens that you’re willing to spend many billions of dollars to remove the veil of mystery from the secret of Creation? What is the source of this fierce craving to know and understand everything about everything down to the ultimate tantalizing question: how did it all begin?
Is it really mere curiosity?
It’s understandable that you send satellites into outer space for purposes of communication weather monitoring and intelligence. But why did you also shoot a gigantic telescope into the heavens in an attempt to look upon the first moment of the “Big Bang ” which according to your theory was the beginning of this universe?
For some reason you are mesmerized by this riddle. Its mysterious enchantment has you in its hold and won’t let go. You feel that you urgently need some kind of answer in order to be released from this vague incomprehensible discomfort. Is this where the explanation for you insatiable curiosity lies?
There were times when you thought you’d found it the solution that would free your soul. The 18th century mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed a theory of an eternal universe with no assumption of a Creator as a First Cause. Afterwards you said to yourself “Evolution. Development through natural selection aided by mutation.” For a while it seemed that you were released from the enchantment — all was known. You found happiness in the embrace of evolution your redeemer from the shackles of mystery.
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