A Universe Without Humans
G.K Chesterton, the English author, once wrote:
I doubt it. While humans are clearly an integral part of the universe, I can find no evidence that we are a more significant part of it than were, say, dinosaurs or passenger pigeons.
Indeed, as the American poet, Richard Purdy Wilbur, wrote:
My guess is that humans are nothing more a momentary, one-time blip on the universal radar screen in the overall scheme of things. Yes, an animal that went entirely off its head.
The Blue Ridge Mountains were here long before humans made their appearance and will be around long after humans, a certain "disease of the dust", are extinct.
"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."I keep coming back to the concept of the universe without humans. The physical evidence is that, indeed, the universe existed billions of years without humans. Was it just hanging around all those years, waiting for us to appear on the scene?
I doubt it. While humans are clearly an integral part of the universe, I can find no evidence that we are a more significant part of it than were, say, dinosaurs or passenger pigeons.
Indeed, as the American poet, Richard Purdy Wilbur, wrote:
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know."How can we possibly be at the center of something that we cannot even understand?
My guess is that humans are nothing more a momentary, one-time blip on the universal radar screen in the overall scheme of things. Yes, an animal that went entirely off its head.
The Blue Ridge Mountains were here long before humans made their appearance and will be around long after humans, a certain "disease of the dust", are extinct.
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