Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Do you believe in God?

Lots of people say they do, but they don't even do what God is. And I am one of them. I hold firm that an existence like that is somewhere, controlling all the being in the world.

We believe in science, because science has brought forth benefits we can see with eyes. But science moves forward much faster than its applications, because it must keep itself ahead of every day life. When Newton developed the three laws, no one knew how to make use of it in real life, and we still can't use relativity and quantum mechanics to a large extent. Sure we can get help from them in astronomy, but the subject itself isn't quite meaningful to our daily lives. Just how many people care to look up into the night sky every day?

Talking about science, we have already come to the conclusion that the universe isn't deterministic as it seems. On a microscopic level, there is fluctuation, randomness dominates, and there's nothing we can really do about it. But I believe God is in charge of randomness. When energy bursts out of nothing in a vacuum, who decides the intensity and the intrinsic property of it? We don't, and we can't, but God can. When something is at a crossroad, we can only say that it either turns left, or turns right, or moves forward. God actually makes that decision.

Of course we can fathom deeper into the fundamentals of nature, but there won't be a time when everything makes sense and no leftover problems exist. If it's ever possible, human beings, or the entire universe will end. God has to keep an unknown side from us; when we see him naked, he will choose the destruction. It's just like those ancient tales: you can look into the secret of the ultimate being, but if you provoke him, you suffer. You simply do not possess the power to square off with him. If there's someone who knows all your secrets and dark side, you instinctively don't want to keep him alive. This is the incompatibility of human nature.

But human beings will eventually die out, just like there's an end to everything in this universe. Life is followed by death; it's determined from birth. Ying and Yang, negative and positive. They oppose each other, yet they complement at the same time. We can have mind-boggling paradoxes from these certainties, yet every paradox tells a true story. If it's completely wrong, the name of it becomes fallacy. It is just a matter of time before we realize the coming of doomsday. But despair not, because we should accept it, just as we accept who we are.

Science has suggested a number of ways that we can terminate as a species. One proposal is heat death, which implies that the structure of the universe will become overwhelmed by the encroaching of entropy. Everything is the same, yet everything is lifeless. Or the universe will just be too cold to support any life forms. The other is that the gravity will eventually halt the expansion of spacetime, and everything ends at a point, also known as the "big crunch." If you are to be destroyed, which path would you prefer?

For me, I rather let my life consume in a flash of glory, rather than leave the stage with a whispering sigh.

It is up to you to choose your fate. And, believe in God, for he will lead you to the path you desire.

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