Friday, February 12, 2010

Week 5: John Polkinghorne (post 5)

John Polkinghorne talks about the universe and how all things exist in the universe it self. He talked about stars and how gravity keeps all hings aligned in it's right format. Even talking about why stars don't burn out in space because of how things just work together keeping them burning. He finds the universe to be so remarkable and unique because of how it works to keep human life on earth. He does believe that the world may be weirder than we all may think it to be. I like that he even stated that the world is even filled with unpredictability dealing with chaos, the butterfly effect and the weather, we will never know what to expect in the future about there occurrences because they happen out of nowhere and without humans approval, it just happens.

That is a fact of life, that we will never know anything we are all ignorant to all around us. Each day is a new day and we never know what it will bring to us all. He said that we don't know what is going to happen but it still leaves room for openness and many variables can come into effect when we have that with us, things can change. He even stated that we may all just be ignorant and have no power and openness but it is something that we cant decide, it's making me wonder if we all really do have the power to make our own decisions or if they are all set in stone for us all at the time of our birth and whatever happens to us is uncontrolled by us and we have no say in who we are and who we are going to be in the future if so and that quantum physics says that the world is undetermined. There are so many questions that we will always have dealing with life and the universe but we may never know all the answers to them we just can believe what we want to.

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