The Three Ultimate Philosophical Questions That Plague Humanity: Who Am I? Where am I from? Where am I going?
This seemingly vexing philosophical question is actually about the relationship between matter (existence) and consciousness (thinking). Whether it is tracing the origin of human beings or the birth of this world or the universe, the difference between matter and consciousness is to always look at the problem from different angles and positions, to put it bluntly, this is more like a dispute between idealism and materialism.
Where did humans come from? How was the world born? Interested readers here can also take a look at an article that came out a few days ago: Who arranged everything in the universe behind it? Yang Zhenning: There is a Creator, and the universe is not accidental, and there are some personal views on the existence of the Creator, and I am very much looking forward to discussion.
In the materialist view, the entire universe is formed from matter in atomic units; in the doctrine of creation, everything in the world is created by God. While these two views have always existed and are occasionally disputed, one thing that has to be made is: Where did matter and God come from?
In fact, the above question can be regarded as a question at the fundamental level, which is nothing more than asking one order and one step up: Matter forms the universe, so how does matter come from? Same. God created man and all things, so where did God come from?
Most human beings have a lot of wild ideas about the emergence of everything in the world, believing that everything in the world and the birth of the universe were created by the Creator, and there are many people who go to explore the truth of the existence of the world.
Newton, Einstein and other physical scientists have put forward their own views and corresponding explanations for many laws in the universe, and many views in gravity and relativity have been borrowed to this day.
However, some statements about "physicists devoting themselves to theology in their later years" have pulled people into an embarrassing situation of not going up and down, and can only be laughed at: the end of science is theology.
So what makes the universe think that a Creator exists? Personally, I believe that this is due first and foremost to the subtle laws of operation between all things in the universe, and secondly to human curiosity.
Laws are a wonderful state of development and are pervasive in all aspects of the universe.
The closest thing to humanity is the Earth we live on, and everything on it seems perfect: there is an inevitable connection between air, water, temperature, and all animals and plants, and no one can exist independently.
In this universe, human beings have not yet found any "similar" life or similar planets (of course, it is not excluded that human beings have no chance to discover it due to technological reasons), which is a surprising thing in itself.
The relationships involved in this (the relative position of the Earth in the solar system just enough to form a suitable environment, the regular motion of the Earth's rotation and rotation, the way the energy is exchanged between stars and planets, etc.) never go wrong.
The earth is still a unique existence in the universe in the human mind so far, but the probability that "only the earth in the universe has life" may be too small in the entire universe, almost close to zero.
Why is it so coincidental, that is, there is an environment on the earth that contains and links with each other, and only life is born on the earth, that is, human civilization has developed on the earth. It all seems like a premeditated or rehearsed experiment or plan, waiting for creatures to appear without their knowledge.
So, would such a regular universe and all things in the world have been created by the Creator? Who created the Creator?
The initial confrontation between matter and consciousness may be the moment when Darwin's theory of evolution emerged. Evolution completely overturns creationism in the traditional religious sense.
Although it has changed many people's views on the origin of the world's species, it has also touched the scales of religious believers. So 66 years after the theory of evolution was proposed, the famous "ape lawsuit" appeared.
This case is simply a discussion of the origin of human birth. Obviously, evolution does not subscribe to God's creation theory, and those who believe in God do not agree that their ancestors were "apes."
Thus, in human society, the exploration of the universe is divided into two schools, one is biased toward the movement of matter, and the other is believed to be God's creation of man. But at the next level, we can't explain how the matter in the universe came from and who Created God.
At the same time, I personally believe that there is still a great contradiction in creationism here, that is, there are different gods in the East and the West, and the time of their appearance and existence is also different.
For example, the West sees Jesus as the God who created all things in the world, calling him "God", while the East believes that Pangu opened up the world and incarnated into all things.
Let's not discuss who is the god of the "beginning of heaven and earth", take the time of the emergence of these two theologies, Christianity originated in the first century AD during the reign of the Roman Empire, and China has developed into Han Dynasty society at this time.
Ah this... I don't know what you mean by getting here?
We often say that matter determines consciousness, whether it is creationism or the birth of the universe at the level of physics, which has a lot to do with the difference in human beings' own unilateral understanding of the world. Just as the concepts of "God" and "universe" do not arise in a newborn's mind, these are acquired information, and these differences in views can also be seen as cognitive differences.