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--------------------------------- 2375 - Welcome to the Natural World
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- The last review was entitled “ 2319 - Welcome to the Quantum World ”. It was about the small stuff at the atomic level that you can’t see. Let me know if you missed a copy. This review addresses the Natural World, I will call the Universe.
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- Of course, the Quantum World is what the Natural World is made of. It is just the part that you can see. When we observe the Universe it seems to be too fine tuned to be a statistical accident.
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- All the laws of physics that we discover and all the natural constants that we encounter are so precisely tuned and, somehow, ideally suited for life on Earth. The probability of all this happening on Earth by mere chance is totally beyond reason.
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- The four fundamental forces, electromagnetism, gravity, strong and weak nuclear forces control every object in the Universe. These forces control every atom in your body and they are somehow precisely tuned for life. Even the slightest change to the farthest decimal point of these attributes would render the Universe lifeless. Yet, here we are? And you are reading this stuff?
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- Not only are all the laws of physics so precisely tuned they are enormously complex and simple at the same time. To calculate the probability of a single DNA molecule forming spontaneously is so small as to be mathematically impossible. Then, somehow, you have all the DNA molecules in the human body all working together in a miraculous system to create life and consciousness.
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- In order to supply the proper number of chromosomes to an offspring, each parent’s reproductive cells under go a remarkable process called “ meioses” Meioses leaves the cells of each parent left with half the usual number. This process prevents the offspring from having too many chromosomes.
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- Normal body cells contain 23 pairs of chromosomes ( 46 total). Meioses in egg cells and sperm produce single sets of chromosomes instead of the pairs. During fertilization an egg unites with a sperm to form a single cell again in the fertilized egg with the correct number of chromosomes.
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- This same process is occurring in all the species. How did the first mother and the first father get the right number of chromosomes in their reproductive cells to begin with? If the process happened gradually through evolution, how did the species survive while these vital features were only partially formed? The chance that this reproductive interdependence could arise in one species after another throughout all the diversity of like defies reasonable explanations.
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- If evolution proceeded over eons of time we should be able to find intermediate links between the major types of living species. After countless fossil finds the missing links are still missing.
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- Whenever any basically different type of life first appeared on Earth, it was complete with organs, structure and fully functioning. Animals and plants continue to reproduce after their kind. The in-between forms have never been found. This is true for all the species not just humans, although we are still looking for the right monkey that will fill this gap.
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- Richard Philips Feynman, renowned physicist, told a graduating class at the California Institute of Technology that scientists need a specific, extra type of integrity. It required bending over backwards to show how maybe you are wrong. It is your responsibility to have this level of modesty, humility and integrity. He does not describe a politician.
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- The more we learn about the complexity and order for the Universe the more we are awed by its design. Somehow there is an intelligent design evident in nearly everything we observe in the natural world.
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- Science cannot establish proper morals and values. There are no equations for these things. Evolution is but a struggle for survival. How can it explain the human qualities needed for a moral, good life?
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- Human knowledge will forever remain limited. But, we must continue to pursue the truth and be bending over backwards to show that truth is wrong, or that it can be improved.
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- The ancient Greeks at the time of Homer, Hesiod, and Thales, 585 B.C., saw the natural “ world as something ordered and intelligible, its history following an explicable course and its different parts arranged in some comprehensible system.”
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- There is always simply something more behind the complexity of the grand design. The journey of life is to keep trying to find truth but not to expect enlightenment without a great deal of faith.
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- Science is constantly searching for simplicity. The Egyptian astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy in 150 A.D. held that nature, under its complexity and astonishing diversity, hides an order that can be articulated in terms of simple elements and their interactions.
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- The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that we are here trying to comprehend it. If you are not totally confused by this you obviously do not understand the problem. We have had 2,300 years of scientists working on this and they are still confused. Me included.
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- May 22, 2019. 68
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