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The following brief essay is from an interesting new site one my readers recommended.
Why ?
John Stevenson
The universe, an incredible complex of matter, space, time and process, is without value or purpose - it merely is and does, and no more. Natural processes within the universe developed life. In the beginning life was nothing more than natural matter that could reproduce. The natural process of evolution then combined with this reproducing matter to develop many life forms (species of life). Many of these new life forms were no more than complex arrangements of matter that could survive. Evolution then developed a life form with intellect, an invention as far reaching as life itself.
The universe is non-thinking. It has no goals or plans. Other than a habitat for life, it has no value. It does, however, have order (spiced with a bit of chaos) and can therefore be understood. The human is a child of life, which in turn is a child of the universe. The universe has no voice and therefore cannot speak its behavioral requirements to the human, but the human has intellect and therefore can learn from (listen to) the universe. From this search into the universe for the answers to life, the following human philosophy emerges:
1. The magnificent and awe-inspiring universe is real and the human must glory in that reality. The universe is consistent, reasonable and understandable. It is toward this universe that the human must turn for all knowledge. All truth is contained therein.
2. There is only one life and all living things share in that life. All other living things are not the brothers or cousins of the individual human, they are one and the same. A human that does well by all of them, does well for himself.
3. The human, because of its intellect, is unique and the most wondrous and valuable of the strains of life. The personal value of each human lies in its degree of dedication to the service of all life.
4. Life began and at first survived only by chance. With evolution, life now blindly seeks survival. With the human, life will gain intellectual control of evolution and the survival of life will be planned and provided. Through the human, a part of life, life will gain immortality.
5. The major impediment in the road toward the immortality of life (and thereby the human) and the intellectualization of the universe, will be the resistance within the human toward intellectual control of its inherited animal instincts. Each human must strive for intellectual control of its life.
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