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Purpose of Creation
Part 4
By
Dr. P.C. Simon
Copyright 2003
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We found in the previous sections that the universe exists
because of attraction, affinity or love. We are looking for further
proof that the creator is love.
The nature of love must tally with the nature of the Creator
in all respects. The first nature I looked for was freedom. Love
should give complete freedom to its beloved.
Complete freedom means independence, the right to disobey the
Creator, freedom to do evil, to commit atrocities, hurt fellow
beings, to create havoc in the world, destroy His creation, even
attempt to destroy Him and declare Him Dead as Friedrich Nietzsche
did. In spite of all these possibilities the Creator has given
freedom to his creation because that is the nature of love.
Therefore, evil in the world is the result of love, infinite
love. We could argue that the Creator should have given freedom to do
only what is right and not evil. That would not be complete freedom.
Granting full freedom further proves that the nature of the Creator
is love.
The next characteristic of love I investigated was
attraction. Love must attract his beloved without infringement of
freedom. I found attraction emphasized in Quantum Chromodynamics
which asserts that the force that holds quarks together within the
proton is gluon, an attraction. When quarks move farther apart, the
gluons get stronger and pull them together. The farther the quarks
get, the stronger the gluons become. For this reason quarks cannot
break off completely and an individual quark has not been seen.
On the other hand, the nearer the gluons come, the weaker the
attraction becomes. This is the opposite of what we expect. Why does
this happen? It is to give freedom for the quarks to move within the
protons. This tallies well with the nature of love that allows
freedom to everything. This is a classical proof that the universe is
created with love and that the Creator is love.
When we are convinced that love is the basic element of
existence, we will persist to uphold that truth just as when we know
that two and two is four, we will not accept any other answer as
correct. If we get another answer, we will look again and again until
we see where we made the mistake. That is what we have to do in
assessing the nature of the Creator.
Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-born American citizen, poet,
painter, and philosopher, wrote in his book, The Prophet, that those
who look at their own shadow, thought that the sun is a caster of
shadows. We can look in the wrong direction and get wrong answers. So
to find the truth, we must repeatedly investigate our findings.
There is an anecdote that illustrates this point. An
engineer, an experimental physicist, a theoretical physicist and a
philosopher were hiking through the hills of Scotland. From the crest
of a hill they spotted a black sheep on the next hill. The engineer
spoke out first, "Look, the sheep in Scotland are black". The
experimental physicist interjected. "Some of the sheep in Scotland
are black" The theoretical physicist thought for a while and
countered, saying, "At least one sheep in Scotland is black". The
philosopher broke his long silence as conclusion, "At least on one
side." If we critically examine our findings we will find the right
answer.
The next important character of the creator I investigated
was "giving." "Love" should give everything it has and not just a
pittance out of his or her resources. Creator cannot be satisfied
after giving me an iota of his immense assets. St. Paul wrote, "Love
bestoweth everything." This is to say that, if the Creator is love,
He/She has to share His/Her wisdom, knowledge, power, strength and
everything it has with us. This has not happened so far. Why?
The giver cannot give more than the receiver can receive. We
cannot give a one pound gold brick to a four-month-old infant who can
hold only a quarter ounce rattle. We cannot teach infinitesimal
calculus to a third grade student. So, the Creator has to upgrade the
ability of human beings to receive divine knowledge and power. This
is happening now.
We are in the age of information. Knowledge is doubling and
redoubling in shorter and shorter periods. There is an explosion of
information.
Isaac Asimov, the prodigious science writer, in his
Chronology of Science and Discovery, recorded hundreds of discoveries
taking place in shorter and shorter periods.
I gathered and tabulated them and found the first twenty-five
discoveries took two million years, the next twenty-five took only
sixteen hundred years and the third twenty-five took only three
hundred years. Then the time lapse reduced and the number of
discoveries increased. Now, there is an explosion of information
every day about outer space, space travel, radio galaxies, quasars,
genes, nucleotides, genetically altered drugs, food products, growth
patterns, sex alterations, cloning, disease prevention and
treatments, microsurgery, nanotechnology and on and on. Computer
knowledge is advancing so fast that new models become almost obsolete
within a short period. The next generation computer is in the making
before marketing the present model.
This proves that knowledge is increasing at a very fast rate.
Of course, it is evidence that the Creator is trying to impart
knowledge as quickly as possible to human beings. But only those with
prepared mind will grasp the significance of all this explosion of
knowledge.
In the next section, we will investigate how far we have come
and when and what will be the final end.
Resource Box: The Purpose of Creation by Dr. P.C. Simon, Copyright
2003. Also by Dr. P.C. Simon, the informative, inspiring, and life-
changing book, The Missing Piece to Paradise. More articles by Dr.
Simon and a description of his book can be seen at
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htmAbout the Author
Dr. P.C. Simon is a retired research microbiologist, philosopher,
philanthropist and author.
