As a person of faith my reaction to the Cosmos series is just the opposite of the fundamentalist Christians who want Creationism to be given equal time I wrote about last time.
Each episode leaves me in awe. Even more, the series as a whole makes me want to live forever.
Given all we have discovered about the universe and our place in it, I want to live long enough to see what the next great discoveries will be, which means I need to live forever because those discoveries will never end.
The great minds of the past that opened the door to today’s exploration of space, and often against great odds – Halley, Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Einstein, and on and on – will be matched by great minds today and tomorrow, and I can’t wait to hear about what they will discover.
I am so very grateful for the marvelous gift scientists of old gave the world. And I take delight in knowing those standing on their shoulders will make similar contributions.
The process is as amazing as it is endless…each new discovery not only increasing human knowledge and understanding of the universe, but raising more questions that point the way to more discoveries.
And we get to witness it happening.
What an incredible time to be alive, but tomorrow is going to be even more incredible, and I want to be there.
I know I won’t be, but that doesn’t stop me from wishing I were.
I hate the thought of missing out on any of it. But I take solace in knowing my children and grandchildren and their children will be.
I just hope they remember that I wanted to be there with them.
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Chief Seattle is reported to have said, from his inner knowing, “There is no death, just a change of worlds.” The resurrection story testifies to this as a reality in the Christian tradition. You WILL live forever and witness it all … from a different vantage point. 😉
But I want to see it “up close and personal,” not from afar.
Totally! Love it, although he does get his religion facts wrong. Like Newton wrote more about the letter of the Romans and Grace than he did about Gravity. Or how Jewish Mysticism influenced his thoughts on white light and prism. Or even how Newtonian Physics created the watchmaker deism, not destroyed it like Cosmos wanted to portray. But these are minor things in the scheme of the show. Annoying, but still… I give the show a B.
Many thanks, Luke. You know more about science than I do and know details I don’t. I’m just along for the ride and am loving every minute of it.