When we look at the world today, we can’t help but feel proud of mankind’s development. Science and technology have brought us many wonderful things. But in spite of all that, there remain mysteries that science cannot explain.
A child prodigy
An American resident Akiane Kramarik is notably a child prodigy in the field of painting. Since the age of four, and without formal instruction, she has been producing amazing art. By age eleven her paintings were commanding prices in the tens of thousands, and at times in the millions, of dollars. Remarkably most of her earnings are donated, worldwide, to charities for starving children. Akiane attributes her talents to the messages received from heaven via her teacher, Jesus.
Mystic, theologian, and scientist
Another mystic is Sweden’s theologian and scientist named Swedenborg. Within the last two decades of his life, Swedenborg said he was able to travel freely in and out of the Spirit World and became a witness to many detailed spiritual sightings and revelations.
Hubble discovers a heavenly world
On February 8, 1994, a top-secret photo was published in the Weekly World News. It was a photo of a large bright city floating eerily in the middle of the blackness of space. Researcher Dr. Marcia Masson said this photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on December 26, 1993. The story goes that NASA analysts couldn’t believe their eyes, and after checking and rechecking the data, they all agreed the city could not have been inhabited by life as we know it because as far as we know, life cannot exist in a cold, airless space.
NASA did not make public the real universe that it discovered because these images would probably change the thinking of all mankind and society as a whole.
Macrocosm and microcosm
This universe is truly vast and infinite! We human beings are actually quite minuscule. Buddha Shakyamuni said: “There are 84,000 creatures in a drop of water”. The word “Buddha” means enlightened one. He can see the truth of the universe, and he can see everything under the microscope. Only later did modern technology slowly begin to detect these microscopic worlds.
Here’s how we can expand our thinking by looking at macro and micro worlds from one spot on the globe. We start by looking at a height of one meter and then increase by multiples of 10.
At 10 meters, we can see the surrounding landscape. Further up, we get a bird’s eye view of the whole town, and then the entire city. At 1,000 kilometers, we have a satellite view. Further on, we see the orbits of the Earth and the moon. At 10 billion kilometers, we can see the orbits of the solar system and the stars. Going 10,000 billion kilometers further, the solar system looks very small. In this infinite universe, we can hardly see the sun anymore; all that remains are stars and nebulae. If we continue to travel in the Milky Way, at this distance, all galaxies become very small and very distant from each other. It’s amazing how big the universe is.
Okay, let’s go in the opposite direction and look into the amazing microscopic view of the world and decrease our distance in the opposite direction by multiples of 10.
At ten microns you can see the white blood cells, and at one micrometer you can see the chromosomes. Moving to 1,000 angstroms, we can see the ends of chromosomes, and moving further we will enter the quantum realm of the atom. Inside the atom we have the atomic nucleus, moving further there are neutrons and protons. Then we go down to the quark, which is the microscopic limit of science right now, but how microscopic can matter really be?
Does the Earth look as small as a sand particle from the vast and infinite universe? If such a small Earth can hold billions of people, how many unimaginable and immeasurable lives could there be on countless other planets?
Newton and Einstein’s insights
Isaac Newton is the scientist who was hit on the head by an apple and thus discovered gravity. Halley, the famous British astronomer who projected the orbit of Halley’s Comet, was a close friend of Newton’s.
At one time, Newton built a model of the solar system, with a gold-plated sun in the center and the planets arranged neatly in their respective positions. The design was very exquisite and with one pull on the crank, each planet immediately rotated in accordance with its orbital pattern. One day, Halley came and saw the model and took an immense liking to it. He asked Newton who made the model. Newton patted Halley’s shoulder and said: “This model is exquisite, but compared to the real solar system, it is nothing. Since you believe that someone must have made it, then the solar system which is a million times more sophisticated than this model must be created by the Almighty God using the highest order of intelligence.”
Einstein also said: “Some people think that religion is not scientific. I am a man of science, and I am acutely aware that science today can only prove the existence of an object, but not the non-existence of an object. Therefore, if we can’t prove the existence of an object now, it does not conclude that it just does not exist. The reason science has not proven the existence of God so far is that science has not yet developed to that extent, not because God does not exist.”
Have you noticed that these very accomplished scientists tend to have something in common? Despite spending most of their lives studying science, in their later years, they have become devoted to religion and are believers in God. Is it possible that at the end of science lies theology? What do you think?
