Christmas was two days ago. Once again I find myself thinking, where did the time go? I heard on television that the largest telescope ever is on its' way to wherever. Its' mission is to look back in time. I'm told man will be able to look back further than we ever have. It's all a rather mind boggling thing to consider. Just what do scientists expect to see? More stars, more galaxies, maybe an alien face staring back at them? I don't know. The New York Times had an article saying they were going to look at the morning of time! I pointed out that space was infinite so we can't really know how far we are looking back. I have my doubts about seeing the "morning" of time. I had to chuckle as many of the liberal readers immediately attacked my opinion. They are the ones "trusting the science" to provide all the answers. That's something else I often chuckle about. Man is incapable of understanding the concept of infinite space, science will never explain that. No matter what man discovers about creation, man will never understand what created, creation! Yes, there was a big bang, what caused that? What created the initial piece of matter? Science is nothing more than a hypothesis of creation. It's what we think.
I usually wait until after the first to pack up Christmas but not this year. That will be done before the end of the week. A new year will begin, as scheduled, and life goes on. The year of our lord two thousand and twenty two is upon us. Our earliest written records date about three thousand five hundred years before that. It's safe to say we have records covering about five thousand five hundred and twenty years of man's activities on the planet. The age of the earth is estimated to be four and a half billion years. That means we have records for about .0013% of the time the planet has existed, we think. Personally, I'll stick to celebrating each year as it arrives. I'm not too concerned where it is coming from. Traveling at the speed of light it could be we are already looking at the end, we just don't know it. The Hubble telescope has a pretty good field of vision. What if this new one looks past that and sees nothing but darkness? What then?
Now the Mayan people had a perpetual calendar. Some scientists disputed that and were predicting the end of time. The Mayan apocalypse, remember? That was back in 2012. Other scientists and scholars explained that the calendar was perpetual, it had no end, like the universe itself. It's interesting to note that the Mayan calendar says the earth began in 3314BC. That's close to the earliest written records known to exist. Could that be when man first arrived on this planet? Well man that could read and write that is. Just how did that happen? Science can't really offer an explanation for any of that. The best science can do is offer a hypothesis. And what is a hypothesis? An idea that explains something in terms we can understand. It should be understood that no assumption of truth or fact is made with a hypothesis, it's just a maybe. Belief in science, and belief in God, share equal validity. Science attempts to explain things in terms we can understand, and faith is belief in an understanding God. The truth is simple enough, we really can't understand either one. That being said it is a good thing to ask questions, to take a good look around, all knowledge is good.
Isn't it amazing? Science, with the launching of this newest telescope, hopes to gain knowledge of humanity by looking at the past. Well, except it isn't the past yet, it hasn't gotten here. So, you could say they are attempting to look into the future. Can you see the future by looking at the past? You can if it is all a big circle, that's my hypothesis. But then the future becomes the past because you already saw it. See what I mean about not really understanding it? Will we welcome a new year? Maybe it is just an old one making its' return.
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