Regardless of our skin colour, eye colour, hair colour or features whether Asian, Caucasian or Negroid we are all one people made up of the same matter, Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, etc. shared amongst all humans, animals. plants and even inorganic forms.
Life as we know it originated from Amino Acids. Where did Amino acids come from? They came from chemical reactions between molecules. Where did these molecules come from? They came from atoms coming together in unique arrangements. Where did these atoms come from?
They were formed within stars which then exploded and provided the heavier elements (Carbon, Oxygen and Calcium for example) that formed planets. In the stars nuclear fusion crushed the atoms of Hydrogen and Helium into heavier elements to form Carbon, Oxygen, Calcium, Iron and all the elements on earth so essential to life. Where did Hydrogen and Helium come from? They came from an arrangement of Protons, Electrons, Neutrons and other sub atomic particles. Finally, where did the Electrons, Neutrons, Protons and other sub atomic particles come from? They came from a condensation of energy created by the Big Bang.
Where did the Big Bang come from? Surely it could not have come out of nowhere! Surely there must have been a Creator. This Creator could be external to His/Her creation (segregating the Creator from Creation) or could be, with the Big Bang, a self transformation to become an aggregation of the Universe. In other words our Creator could have been external to the Universe prior to Creation and the Big Bang but transformed Himself/Herself into the current day Universe. Both are reasonable, viable, and deserve equal respect.
Scientifically what we do know today is Matter and Energy are manifestations of the same thing – lets call it momentum – governed by the equation E = MC2. What we do know is the sum of all Matter and Energy in our Universe, momentum as we have called it, is a constant. This “momentum” has not changed at all since the Big Bang. Over billions of years this momentum whether measured in Ergs (energy) or grams (matter) has not changed by a single unit or a fraction thereof. I argue that this “momentum” post Big Bang is equivalent to its corresponding “momentum” pre Big Bang. So in effect this “momentum” is a constant without beginning and without an end, both in momentum and in time. Matter and Energy today are manifestations of this “momentum” today. Does this “momentum”, a summation of Matter and Energy in the Universe include Life and Intelligence?
If this is true and Life and Intelligence are products of an arrangement of “momentum”, an arrangement of Matter and Energy in unique ways, then did Life start with amino acids, did intelligence start with the formation of man or even animals, did consciousness begin with man or perhaps other higher animals predating man, or are life, intelligence and consciousness derived from the creation of the Universe, the Big Bang? Max Velmans has expressed this best. Like magnetism and luminescence for example, Life, Intelligence and Consciousness could very well be properties of matter that only manifest themselves under certain arrangements of matter.
We are all made up of matter, Carbon, Hydrogen & Oxygen to mention just a few elements. Each of these atoms of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and other elements while being identical to other Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and other elements respectively, are distinct individual units. If we wanted to and if we could, each atom in this universe could be given a part and serial number. So if the part numbers of Carbon, Hydrogen & Oxygen were C, H & O respectively and each atom of that element numbered starting from 1 then every single atom in the universe could be uniquely identified by its part and serial number. Every Carbon atom would have a serial number between C1 & Cn, every Hydrogen atom a serial number between H1 & Hn, every Oxygen atom a serial number between O1 & On etc. where n is the count of the last atom of that element in the universe.
We were all born with a certain set of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and other atoms each of which could be uniquely labeled by part and serial number as defined in the preceding paragraph. In each of us today most if not all of the original atoms we were born with have left our bodies through exhalation and excretion. The original set of atoms of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, etc. which were once part of our bodies are now elsewhere on earth, some in other plants or animals or even in other men (or women). The atoms of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and other elements that constitute us today have come from the food we have ingested, the plants and animals we have eaten and air we have inhaled. Even the strictest vegetarian or vegan has within them matter from other vegetable and even animal life through what they have ingested and inhaled. The matter of which our bodies are made up of today, Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and a host of other elements have traveled around over billions of years supporting other plants, animals – and yes humans – before they arrived into our bodies.
In conclusion then, we human beings are unique arrangements of matter that gives us life, intelligence, consciousness and individuality – the concept of “I” - the same matter that existed in other life forms and contributed to their life, intelligence, consciousness and individuality depending upon which life form they supported.
If all of us blacks, colored, whites, African, Asian, European, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jew, Muslim, people of all colour, race and belief are made up of the same matter why do we kill each other? (Link to next blog)
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Dear Folks
Howdy. I think I've been led here tonight. Because this is my stuff; I think about it all the time.
More.
sincerely
Phillip
Posted by: Phillip Bowman | 11/23/2009 at 02:30 AM