Wednesday, 2 March 2011

a Moment for Wisdom…

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DAILY WISDOM:

“There are only two ways to live your
life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

“The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and
elegant.”

Garrett Lisi

Personal Wisdom:

What are the miracles of your life? List them in two categories:

• Extra-ordinary, supernatural and/or inexplicable events.
• Everyday events that are to you
  “miraculous”.

Where is the beauty in your life? The simplicity? The elegance?

Societal Wisdom:

Do you have any experiences (in any country or culture) of people recognizing and/or honoring miracles? (I would suggest you discount the “Jesus image on the toast” variety of “miracle”.) What are those miracles? How are they honored?

Do you have any experiences (in any country or culture) of people searching for beauty, honoring simplicity, recognizing elegance?

a Moment with Sharif…

Greetings;

Einstein & Lisi: two theoretical physicists, one of the 20^th Century and the other of the 21^st Century. They also happen to be spiritualists and poets.

What is a “miracle”?

Let me give you a couple of entries from my “miracle” book:

• A baby caribou, at one day old, can outrun a fully grown, hungry and determined
  wolf. (There’s truly amazing footage of this, on the “Planet Earth” series…) This ability cannot be explained by “evolution”… why didn’t rabbits develop this ability?

• There are lots of examples of people developing super-human strength in a crisis:
  the woman who lifts a car off of her child.
  

• The calcium molecule is very powerful and amazingly binding. It likes to bond with
  itself. There’s only one place in the Universe where calcium atoms don’t bind… inside your kidneys. If they did, you would have died at two days old.
  Scientists don’t know why calcium misbehaves… but it does.

• A bumblebee gets its fat butt off the ground and in the air. It’s too heavy to fly, and its wings are too small. According to scientists, it literally should not be able to fly… but it does.

• Ice floats. It is the only substance in the Universe that expands when it gets hot and expands when it gets cold. If it didn’t… Life would be impossible.

These (and many, many other instances) cannot be explained by “evolution”. There’s only one explanation… one that gets most scientists twitchy… THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BEND TOWARD LIFE.

Most scientists act as though nothing is a miracle… if something is unexplained, its just that they haven’t come up with the right theory, the right test, the right experiment. They haven’t yet broken the code. They are the “Breaker” scientists…

Einstein and Lisi are examples of “Mender” scientists… while looking for answers, they do not lose their sense of wonder at the Mystery and awe in the face of the Intelligence of
the Design.

Peace,

Sharif

PS: The photo of Saturn (backlit by the Sun) holds a very special surprise. Look at the outer ring (of water vapor and invisible from Earth), then one more ring inward. Look around the ten o’clock position… see that little dot? That’s… us. That’s the Earth, from 1,000,000,000 miles away. Everything that we know, everything that we ARE, occupies exactly nine pixels on the photo. If that doesn’t make you humble, nothing will.

PPS: Google “Cassini Saturn” for all of the beautiful Saturn photos. Feel free to download your own copies… your tax dollars already paid for them!

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Acknowledgments:

Sharif Abdullah photo: Lisa Norton

All other photos by Sharif Abdullah, unless otherwise noted.

Saturn courtesy of NASA

Atom courtesy of www.physics.rutgers.edu

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