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Materialists would have us
believe this is all there is to it. What you see is what you get.
Everything, including the galaxies, stars and their planets, all matter, all
energy --- the whole caboodle including the conditions and precursors of
living systems came into existence at the Big Bang. And that ultimately,
billions of years from now, entropy will increase causing the same galaxies
and stuff to stop happening and fizzle out taking all life along with it.
Some allow the probability for a Big Crunch to occur where everything will
once again collapse on itself and blink out of existence. But end of story
either way.
Therefore they have no truck with anything that
have no truck with anything that can't be empirically demonstrated or
falsified. Thus no belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or
intellectual apprehension. Meaning no mystical mumbo-jumbo, spiritual
dimension to being, transcendent orders of experience, other planes of
reality, paranormal phenomenon, psychic consciousness or religion. Hell, not even
God!
At the same time, science
itself is virtually crawling with equally bizarre concepts and with every
passing day more and more things that go bump at night are exiting its
wood-work. For starters, a staggering 95% of the composition of the universe
is now officially unknown. Calling it "dark matter" or "dark energy" is
about as enlightening as saying thought transference is a
fact because it's called "telepathy". As far as the remaining 5% is
concerned, it's now believed it could have up to 26 extra dimensions curled
up inside the three we perceive. And vacuum ---- why, it's a seething foam
of virtual particles, some as small as massless points; others as big as
baby universes, that have the potential to continually pop in and out of
existence as it fluctuates. (And we're not even talking about the spookiness
of quantum mechanics here.)
So where do materialists get
off, considering at their fundamental level too reality as we know it seem
to have gotten into yet another fine mess as in any other system of
reckoning ? The ultimate irony here is that if any of those woolly-headed New
Agers only knew about some of the over the top ideas being casually bandied
about in science, they would let out a collective whoop of joy and embrace
it instead of showing the contempt they normally do. That would teach
materialists a great lesson. |
