Ultimate Knowledge

What type of knowledge is ultimate knowledge? I am not talking about the knowledge of properties of the universe, the nature and composition of plants, animals, the earth, sky, or stars. This information is available in text books. I am talking about the more intriguing exploration of how the universe came about, why, and what is its future.

Many scientists, atheists and agnostics think that there is no creator. They are wrong. One scientist Robert Kirshner, the Dean of the faculty of Astrophysics at Harvard argued for the existence of a Creator. He had an orrery, a replica of the sun and its planets on his desk. The orrery could be set in motion with their celestial distances and speed of motion reproduced in exact proportion by cranking a shaft. An atheist friend seeing this replica asked Kirshner who made it. Kirshner who was reading a book casually replied,"No one". The friend repeated the question and got the same answer. He was insulted and said "Do you think that I am such fool as to believe that this was not made by someone? Kirshner replied,"This a just a small replica. Whenever I told you that the original was created, you always argued to prove that it came without a creator. Now why can't you accept this small thing came by itself?"

We know that for every pot there is a potter. If the universe came into existence by itself we have to call it "self created universe". If it came by an unknown event, then the unknown event is the creator. In any case there is a creator.

Science tells us that the universe came into existence with a big bang and evolution thereafter. Religionists think that God created the earth with plants and animals old and young. Scientists think that religionists are wrong and vice versa. . But I believe both are right. The almighty omniscient God created and set in motion in perfect order so that He/She does not have to meddle with it every day. The big bang is one of the processes it had to go through to continue the evolution of all that exists.

Our question must be, with what did the creator create the universe, and what existed to cause the big bang. Whatever there was, it was created by a creator. Fossil records prove that the early elements were gases, hydrogen, helium, carbon, methane, nitrogen, oxygen and neon. Because of gravity, the gases could have gathered together and became a cosmic egg to cause the big bang as Abbe' Gorges Lemaitre, the Russian born American nuclear physicist said.

I realized that before anything was created there was only the creator and as such the creator had only the substance of the creator to create with. If so, the universe was created from the substance of the creator. If the substance of the creator and the substance of the universe is the same, the nature of the creator and the nature of the universe must be the same. Now by finding the nature of the visible, tangible universe, I will know the nature of the unknown creator. This was a serendipitous idea that came as intuition.

By finding the nature I may be able to arrive at the purpose of creation similar to the way in which Mendeleyev, the Russian chemist, established the periodic table.

I found the most familiar nature and the one that affects every object in the universe is gravitation. Gravity keeps the earth and the planets of our solar system in orbit around the sun. It affects the sun's movement with its nine planets and asteroids. It plays a role in the geometric structure of the universe. It is the cause of the curvature of the universe. It regulates the motions of the stars and galaxies. Gravitational pull of the earth holds all objects on the surface of the earth. Without this, the 1000 mph rotational speed at the equator and the 66000 mile per hour orbital speed of the earth would cause every object on the face of the earth to fly off into space. Gravitational force reaches great distances. There is no object in the universe which is not in some way affected by gravity. Gravity is attraction, which is affinity or love.

If gravity is the common nature of the universe, love must be the nature of the creator. There was some hesitation in my mind to accept gravity as love. However, I realized that we use different terms for the same function depending on the substance affected or the source. An analogy will clarify this much better than a verbose explanation. There are different names for energy such as mechanical energy, electrical, chemical, etc. Similarly, when the attraction is between atoms we call it atomic attraction, molecular attraction, magnetic attraction etc. In the case of attraction, with reference to earth, sun, galaxies etc. the term mostly used is gravity. When the same attraction is seen in living beings, we call it love. Therefore gravity is attraction, affinity or love.

Love cannot exist without an object to love. My love for my children cannot exist if I have no children. The creator's love cannot exist if there is no creation. The creator, being love, cannot exist without creation. (Here I am asserting that creator "is love" and not that "creator has love".) Therefore, the creator had to create (the universe )for self-existence and as an object to love. This assumption supports the "Strong Anthropic Principle" --- a much discussed concept among physicists nowadays, which states "that somehow the universe requires that life must exist."

If a creation was necessary for the creator to exist, the universe must have come into existence along with the Creator. I must say "almost along with" because by definition the Creator had to have existed before the creation. Therefore, the creator had to appear before the Creation.

What then is the purpos of creation? It was not because the creator liked being worshipped by so many vassals so that he could flaunt himself as the almighty God. The Creator has endowed all mothers from lions to lizards, with love. We cannot give what we do not have. Therefore, the Creator must have had love to bestow it on animals.

Now that we know that the creator is love we can assume that the creator did not create for being worshipped or for persecuting the creation. Then what was the reason for creation? The Bible says that God came into the Garden in the cool of the day looking for the company of Adam and Eve. This is very reasonable probability for love cannot exist without companionship. Therefore we can assume that the creator's purpose was companionship. Now the whole problem is solved.

But that brings us only to the present state and we do not know what the future holds for humanity and the universe. To establish the future, we have to investigate the nature of love.

We know that Love has to share all that He/She has with His/Her beloved. But a giver cannot give more than what the receiver can receive. The creator cannot give all his powers and knowledge to human beings at our present level of understanding. Therefore, the creator has to upgrade our knowledge. And that is what is happening. We are in an age of information.

During the last few decades we have succeeded in replacing various organs such as heart, liver, and lungs with artificial substitutes. We made genes to synthesize antibiotics and chemicals, surgically treated fetuses while in mothers' womb. We transferred human genes to mice, bacteria and plants, produced potatoes with less starch, rice with more protein, coffee without caffeine, fish that grow ten times faster than normal, cows which produce 25% more milk, etc. We developed the ability to locate defective chromosomes and undesirable genes and change them. By altering the genetic make up of animals we will be able to use the organs of these transgenic animals to meet the demands of shortage of transplant-organs. We are making use of pig livers laced with human genes to help patients with liver failure. Injections of viruses armed with suicide genes are being used to destroy cancerous tumours. DNA computers may be used to correct endocrine pathologies or destroy cancerous growths. All these developments, which have taken place within the last half-century, prove that knowledge is increasing at a faster pace.

According to Isaac Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery the 1st group of 25 discoveries took 1,800,000 years. The 2nd group of 25 discoveries took 18,300. The third group took 1,400 years. The fourth group took 276 years. The fiftieth group took two years (1941- 1943). If we extend this doubling to infinity, we will see that knowledge will double every year, every month, day, hour, minute, second, and finally becomes instantaneous. Instantaneous means that as soon as a problem arises, the answer appears or that there is nothing unknown.

The only being that is all-knowing is the creator. When human beings reach this level of all-knowingness, the creator has achieved his goal of elevating companions to his level of understanding and capability.

In the beginning, such development will happen only to few individuals with prepared minds spoken of by Louis Pasteur and not to all human beings as a species. At the same time there will be some individuals, like Gibran's men, who stand in the sun and see the sun as caster of shadows and not as giver of light. But eventually all will have the ultimate knowledge. It will spread by morphic resonance as Rupert Sheldrake described when monkeys, on isolated islands learned to wash potatoes to get rid of sand and monkeys on other islands got the idea without any contact with the first group.

Now we know that there is a creator and He created the universe with his own substance because He needed companionship. This is the ultimate knowledge.
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