Why can’t we just admit that we do not know why we exist or how the universe came to be, and try to use science to find out why things are as they are? This seems a better view than to say that because we do not know the answers, some all-powerful being must have made everything and put us here.

Why is it so hard to admit? It is because it does not make us feel content. Science questions the comfortable feeling that you or some great being knows exactly who, what, when, where, why and how everything happens.

The handwriting is on the wall that organisms on the earth today descended from earlier organisms, and that great changes occurred along the way. It is also clear that universe is expanding, and it is logical that it must have expanded from somewhere. Why can’t we continue with further hypotheses, and try to find the truths of the Universe?

Hippocrates of Cos, the man who brought medicine out of the realm of superstition wrote, “Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things.”

The astronomer Carl Sagan wrote, “For me it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

I agree.

Jonathan Fortney

Sophomore

Physics