Question by Mogk: Does the universe have a purpose? IF so, what is this purpose?
If not, is it, as some modern philosophers have argued, just a universe of “matter in the motion” – particles and electromagnetic field acting according to the laws of physics?

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Answer by Shnike
That’s the big question, isn’t it?

What do you think? Answer below!

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The universe and ourselves are made of atoms. Atoms are made of protons and neutrons. These are made of quarks. Quarks are made of strings, if we accept String Theory as real, as most scientists do. Well, think, if matter is the substance that explains our universe and ourselves then atoms are at the heart of everything. No atoms, no matter, no universe and no life dimensions where we belong to. Take a look at dust, earth, mud, clay!

Take a look at air, this etheric matter form. Take a look at fire, it is made up of atoms, no atoms no fire. It is atoms expulsing its energy. Take a look at water, it is made out of atoms (OH2). Take a look at black, or dark, matter! It is made out of atoms. Atoms construct our universe of which we are dimensions of matter in time and space, like every thing else. Nothing in this universe is made out of anything else but atoms.

Atoms, everywhere, must come together to consist every object whether solid, liquid or etheric or energetic.

Now, the question what are atoms? What is matter? No one knows, not even Einstein. Unless you happen to know, then tell us all!

Until now no one knows how the universe began. Most scientists believe in the Big Bang, but no one scientist knows how the big bang came about and what started the process of the big bang. No one knows what are the ingredients of big bang. But all agree on atoms underlying the process of setting off the process and activating it in such a way to create our universe some 20 billions of years after. Galaxies and there are hundreds of billions of them, planets and stars, and there are trillions of them, are all made out of atoms.

No one knows where atoms came from. No one knows why atoms make matter and matter constitutes our universe. What was before the big bang? Who instigated the big bang. Should you be like Stephen Hawking and change your mind with respect to the big bang and believe in the eternity of the world then you face the same question once more.

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Atoms and atoms everywhere. Whether the world is eternal of a singularity we are still facing the same phenomenon. This is atoms. Nothing can have a presence, form, shape, color, energy and hundreds of other characteristic features if it is not made out of atoms.

So, we come back to the same question, what are atoms and what made atoms as they are?

All is a mystery, all constitute a perfect enigma. No one can break through this mystery. No one broke through the universal enigma. Ultimate questions lead to ultimate answers. These ultimate questions are related directly to fundamental principles that underlie what we see, what we experience. These questions deal with the presence, the origin, the how and the why of everything. An M Theory does not exist.

String Theory explaining the smallest particle to the biggest, but does not in any way explain the presence, the origin, the finality and the why questions.

Look at our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is made out of millions of solar systems like ours. Trillions of stars and planets. Each is made out of matter and matter is made from atoms. Look at our solar system and see how the sun is made out of atoms in constant colossal energy form, constant atomic energy.

Our planet earth was a ball of fire of atomic energy and then the atoms cooled down by a miracle and formed the crust on which we live. Then the mantle that separates us from the molten fire form. At the heart of the earth and not so far away from us (about 2900 Kms. inside) there persists the ball of solid fire ( made up of the outer core of molten metal and the solid metal inner core (at a degree of 3700 C). Volcanoes are nothing but the safety valve of such a metal ball of molten metals.

Every layer of the earth is made out of matter being atoms put together to form what it forms.

On the outer crest we live with other life manifestations. Life conditions are made as such to make life possible, otherwise, we perish with all life dimensions. We ourselves are made of matter and atoms are at the heart of everything within us, cells, blood, nerves, bones and the rest of it. Al animals are the same, they are made of atoms. Flora, minerals, microscopics are al made of atoms. Atoms of all sorts had to be created and then put together to form what we see and can measure. Time is but one dimension of atoms, just like space and place.

Thus, the material world is made of different types of atoms. Every type constitute its own form and shape. Unless these atoms are self-made and self-productive and self assembled and self-controlled, then there must be something that made these atoms, put them together and has absolute control over their form, shape, color and conduct.

Atoms with its mysterious origin and presence and all its characteristic features are metaphysical in origin, presence, nature, form, shape and finality building up everything that we observe. Atoms share all of them the same underlying principle of structure and have the same principle of manifestations.

This means they all come from one origin and one source. They all behave according to the same laws and this leads to one law-giver. They need, to be what they are in their observed world, to be created, programmed and formulated and then controlled, otherwise, they disintegrate, they must be held together and kept together. A metaphysical power must have ordained all these atoms to be what they are.

This power is God.

Unless yourself have done it all.

If so, then, we are metaphysical creatures in form and nature; metaphysical in all our presence and origin being part of the metaphysical universe we happen to be in; metaphysical in all our dimensions.

From God we come and to God we belong.

 

 

Why would a preeminent physicist make the claim that “the universe can come from nothing”? This is precisely what Dr. Stephen Hawking has done in his new book, The Grand Design, when he notes, “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”

 

Everyone has his, or her, own convictions about life, the universe, being and God. Religion asserts God’s indispensability for the presence of the universe and life. Philosophy searches for truth, and ultimate truth and it purports to demonstrate the relation ship between three enigmas: the universe, man and God.

It attempts to establish a comprehensive perspective for the three such as that God has created the universe and created man in order to look into the universe and find God. Metaphysics, on the other hand searches for reality and ultimate reality at that. Its subject matter is first principles and first causes for the universe and life manifestations.

Real reality for the metaphysics does not lie in the physical, sensible aspect of the universe but in the intelligible aspect that cannot be reached except through thought and spirit. Man in his totality is engaged to find answers to fundamental questions about the underlying principles of the universe in its presence, origin and finality, It purports to find out the reality behind existence in all its aspects.

Life and death, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred, value and morality are the domains of metaphysics, as much as religion and philosophy, but metaphysics looks for the reality in these and behind these phenomena. Religion invites humans to think and consider the universe as the creation of God and invites humans to acknowledge God, love Him, serve Him and worship Him.

God is is the thesis of religion. Philosophy wonders following the urge for fining out truth in man. What represents the truth and is the truth are the domains of philosophy. Thus philosophy is a personal outlook while religion is a general communal outlook. Metaphysics, searching for reality studies religion and consider its premises and presumptions and attempts to disclose the real principles in religion and also in philosophy.

Metaphysics goes beyond religion to examine its premises and conclusions. It purports to uncover the principles of the universe and life in religious thought as well as in philosophical thought.

Thus for example religion prescribes belief in God and His worship, while philosophy attempts to find out the truth in religious thought and whether there is or not a God that has created the universe, life and its manifestations and the relationship between man and the universe, with or without God. Metaphysics attempts to find out the reality of the religious disposition and the reality of philosophical thought.

If God has created the universe then, according to religion, philosophy and metaphysics, He is worthy of worship, love and service. While religion asserts this, philosophy looks into its truth and metaphysics into its reality. While religion asserts God as creator and disposer of the universe and man, philosophy accepts or rejects the idea of God and metaphysics looks into the reality of sensible to search and establish the reality of the intelligible.

God is, in religion. He might be in philosophy and He is to be discovered in metaphysics.

While religion invites to believe or disbelieve in God with all the consequences that stems from this alternative, philosophy aspires to find a rational disposition for God or a rational to deny God. While science concentrates of the sensible-physical and rejects the metaphysical, metaphysics considers the sensible-physical in the light of the intelligible and spires to uncover the reality of the principles in the intelligible. The first principle in metaphysics is God. He is the first cause and the creator of the univrse. He is ultimate good. He alone is worthy of thinking and contemplation. He Is Reality.

The common difficulty shared by religion, philosophy and metaphysics lies in the attempt to resolve the enigmatic problematic of the three principle subjets of meditation namely that of the universe, of man and that of God.

Not to panic, every one of us attempts to think and refelect and concludes his, or her, personal conviction with regard to the universe, man and God. The key in all these aspects is lack of proof but the proclaimations by any perspective are founded on the strong plausibility that there is a need for a God cause and creator, in opposition and comparison to the absence of the universe and man ,which is not the case, and thus man recoils upon his own convictions.

Science does not help, rather the ocontrary it confirms dogmatically a notion limited only to the sensible, neglecting the intelligible, unless our convictions are not blinded and limited only to the physical aspect but transcends to the metaphysical level, fundament of the real.

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