Immediately, everyone knows the philosophical question I am going to ask. The most baffling, perplexing, question that has bested millions, if not billions, of our ancestor's way before my fingers ever reached these keys. Of course I'm writing about the question: "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
The smile, or possibly even the chuckle from that one question is understandable, that one question is what some would probably consider... let's just say a little less than important. What seems more important to me is that there was not a scientific answer for that simple of a question until recently, a quandary against the evolution of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg
(Yeah, some people have a thing against Wikipedia, not me.) :)
For those that do deem these questions as less important, or possibly even stupid, it's hard to figure out what the meaning of life could be when we are having a hard enough time trying to figure out what the chickens are doing.
But as none of us really know what we're doing let's just start.
German philosopher, polymath, and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz once asked,“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
A quote from Robert Lawrence Kuhn from the Science + Religion Today website, best summarizes the problem with the idea of ‘nothing.’
“Why not Nothing? What if everything had forever been Nothing? Not just emptiness. Not just blankness. But not even the existence of emptiness. Not even the meaning of blankness. And no forever.”
If there was nothing in the beginning of the universe how is there something now? Is there any type of organization to the universe that can be possibly seen and objectively observed? Or, is everything just a vast array of moving matter, particles, and waves that just so happened to position themselves exactly where they are to create planets, solar systems, and suns then provide one planet with the ability to create a ‘somewhat’ intelligent being. (Now don’t get uppity because I said “somewhat.”)
From an everyday stand point thinking about something of this magnitude, the evolution of the universe, may be a little perplexing and even agitating. (Especially for those out there that find it quarrelsome to linger over different concepts) But, it can also set into reason that the larger nature of the universe cannot be discovered by thought or belief alone, that rather than looking for answers from UP/DOWN answers must be discovered from DOWN/UP.
http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2009/06/05/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100319234356AAy6rTL
(That last one's just kind of funny.)
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