Hello, it’s TimeEmperor! When Copernicus published his book, explaining that the Sun was actually the center of the universe, the church heavily criticized it, and the pope even banned it. But isn’t surprising to see that the church’s endeavor was to not educate people about the universe, when all it was doing was educating people how to live properly, what to do in a moment of crisis and so on. No, the church didn’t do it for the reason not to educate people, it was because of our place in this world and the church’s power.
You see, back in the middle ages, the church had a lot of power. It made people pay taxes, it allowed for kings to be kings, it even influenced kings to do some things which were profitable for the church. But of course the church spread the word of god, so naturally it said that we, humans are special, that we are the center of our creator’s attention. So naturally, when Copernicus said that we are not the center of the universe, the church was mad, because it made people not that special anymore, they weren’t the center of the universe, but some giant ball of light was. And when Giordano Brumo proposed that the universe was in fact infinite, that the distant stars are like the Sun which had their own exoplanets, and maybe had life on those exoplanets, due to these ideas, he was called a heretic and was burned. Why? Because this would mean for the church, that humans would lose their special place as children of god, who focuses only on us.
But these ideas were necessary, because we had to stop thinking like that. Why? Because this thinking clouded our judgment, to judge ideas, to judge facts and people. Because of these ideas the church lost it’s power to fully influence people, to do as the church says, to believe what it believes, to think that they are special, that they are the center of the universe. But as Copernicus, made us lose the special place of being the center of the universe, but it left some specialty, because we now where orbiting the center of the universe. But later, when it was discovered that the solar system actually orbits the Milky Way galaxy on it’s outskirts, that struck a huge blow into feeling special, we were no longer orbiting the center of the universe closely, but still kept an orbit around it, right? Again, no because it was also later discovered that most of the lights in the night sky we associate with stars, are actually other galaxies, and there is no center of the universe. So now we’re not orbiting the center of the universe, nor are we special, because we live in a galaxy, because there’s a lot of galaxies, which have their own star systems, probably with life on other far away worlds. And with the theory of evolution, we stopped being god’s designed children, because we evolved like every other animal, in fact we are animals, just that we have a consciousness, which is the only thing that is separating us from other animals.
We have lost our crown of being kings of space, because we were just some minuscule species, that evolved from a single organism like every other animal, on non-special rock, orbiting a non-special star, which is orbiting a non-special galaxy in a universe of billions of galaxies in an infinite cosmos. But we still have our crown, because we’re god’s children, we also have a consciousness, right? You already know what I’m going to say. The answer is no. Neuroscientists have shown that consciousness plays a small part in our brain activity, what dominates is the other side of the coin, unconscious processes. Our consciousness is nothing really that special, it’s, like David Eagleman said in his book “Incognito”, just creating a way, to accomplish a task, that is new to us, which after being the way was created, will be accomplished unconsciously. For example, you always lock your doors and unlock. But one day, you come home and see that your door is open, which is alerting, your consciousness kick in, to find a way to get through this, you then decide whether to enter or not, grab a self defence tool or not, it creates a way for you to deal with these new situations.
But what about the god’s children part? Well, think of it like this, where is the evidence for it? A book without an author and that’s it? Belief is not evidence, it’s not facts, because probably the whole bible contradicts all science facts. Even if you say that god wrote it or something like that, then I’ll answer with a question like this: if a book is written without an author is supposed to be taken seriously, as fact? You know, J.K. Rowling could’ve wrote the Harry Potter series and could’ve not put her name on the book, and then would it be fact? Or if I wrote a book, that is the continuation of the bible, but with robots and dragons and not put my name on the book, but simply say that god has written it, would it be then considered as fact? NO. It won’t because it is scientifically inaccurate. Neither is the bible.” But if you bring me proof that god truly exist, then I’ll agree, but only if you have proof, real proof. If you believe something, and it’s not based on facts, because facts don’t require a belief, if you believe that a fact is wrong, it doesn’t matter, because a fact will still be true, because it’s supported by evidence, unlike god.
So why am I saying that we’re not special? Well, yes, we are beings, that evolved from a single organism, without the help of a non-existent god, and we are on an ordinary planet, orbiting an ordinary star, which is orbiting an ordinary galaxy, which is in an ordinary cluster of ordinary galaxies, and the cluster forms an ordinary super-cluster, and our consciousness is rather really limited as to what it does, as far as I know, because I’m not a neuroscientist. But what actually makes us special is something that we have all the time, but we neglect it, all of our scientific theories wouldn’t have been made if it hadn’t existed. It is our curiosity. And no, I’m not talking about the Mars rover, but it does explain why it was named that way. Because we, humans, are naturally curious, we want to explore and understand everything in the whole universe. By the way, forgot to mention the fact that our place in the cosmos could become even more smaller, due to the fact that there’s a possibility of a multiverse existing. But even if the cosmos are so vast and barely comprehensible for the common man ( by this I mean, that he works in a non-scientific field), but we carry something so huge in our brains, that is as huge as the cosmos, our curiosity. Questions arise, and they get answers, but those answers propose even new question and so on, and we’re curious as to why the universe or multiverse is the way it is, and our curiosity is what keeps us going, that passion for science is driven by our curiosity, and even if we have started our journey to understand the cosmos with nothing, we will end up with the most powerful thing in the world, knowledge, knowledge of the cosmos. And that in my opinion is special! TimeEmperor signing out!
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