The same goes for time; we live a short span, during which our world orbits the sun around seventy-odd times and then we’re gone – but during our ‘spins’ around the sun, some of us may reflect on the nature of the mind-blowing scale of time and the length of our infinitesimal (but oh so precious) lives in comparison.
The recently revised estimate of the age of the observable universe is that it is 26.7 billion years old; our lifespan is not even a brief spark compared to that phenomenal spectrum of time and during our short stay on earth we learn so little.
Our knowledge of history is quite fuzzy; we know something catastrophic happened to those mysterious and weird alien-like beings – the dinosaurs – 65 million years ago, but no one’s too sure exactly what happened; an asteroid might have struck the earth or a nearby star could have gone supernova.
The subsequent emergence of humans – according to the dogma of evolution – is still being disputed. Nature never over-endows a species beyond the demands of its everyday existence – and yet the human brain has a phenomenal cubic capacity (1,400 cc) that is way out of proportion for our everyday needs and goes right against the process of evolution...<<<Read More>>>...
