How Science Saved My Soul

I do not follow any form of organized religion. However, science often leaves me humbled, awestruck and downright ecstatic. Musing about how all things are materially and energetically interconnected in the vast scheme of the universe brings me a kind of meditative peace there is no real word for (as the following video aptly points out).

Science and spirituality are one and the same to me, so I find the separation of these matters baffling. I am in what I gather to be a minority: those who worship reality and find “soul” in harmonious complexities of nature and properties of energy.

This video does a nice job of presenting my case (yes, it is 15 minutes long, but I highly recommend it to all with an interest in the wonders of science).

We are so very small and insignificant. Yet, with the incomprehensible particles, patterns and occurrences in the universe…simply existing at this place in time is miraculous.

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One response to “How Science Saved My Soul”

  1. To quote Dr. Manhattan:

    “…thermo dynamic miracles… events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.

    And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son, that exact daughter… until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you that emerged.
    to distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood.

    the thermodynamic miracle.”

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