Expanded Horizons

I've been enjoying cosmology documentaries at home for the last few days, many of which focus on the question of how the universe began. Scientists are endlessly intrigued by this question. Each time one of them has a breakthrough, it adds more complexity to the problem. The most humorous example was that of a Russian [I will insert his name later] who, along the way to trying to explain the singularity of the universe at the moment of the 'big bang', discovered a mathematical means of proving the existence of a 'multiverse', or an infinite number of universes for every possibility. That'll slow them down. Our laws of nature are impressive and empirical, but they only account for the universe as it is at this point in time. When they theoretically shrink the universe down to how it was in the beginning, these formulas are rendered useless. Darwin's natural selection is an elegant theory and any biologist will tell you that its principles are effective in their experiments. But one aspect of Darwin's natural selection dissatisfies me. It does not wholly explain our sentience and our mastery of this planet. How did we come to rise so far above other primates? Wouldn't it take millions of years for, say, chimpanzees to evolve to our level? I think it is unnatural for primates to be driving cars instead of swinging from the trees. How did this happen? [July 3, 2017: I wrote the following before I learned that our planet would be a lifeless ball of ice without the Moon.] The Moon is another mystery. Our moon is much larger in proportion to our planet than any other moon in the Solar System. It is one fifth the size of Earth, big enough to protect our world from threatening bodies drifting in from the asteroid belt. Look at the craters in the Moon. Maybe that's what the surface of the Earth would look like by now, cold and barren, if the Moon weren't up there. And those solar eclipses are quite remarkable. Such pinpoint positioning, almost impossible to imagine it occurring at random. To top it off, the Moon helps us to tell the time by its quarterly cycle. Is all this natural? One way I have of summarizing God is to call God 'unattainable knowledge'. Even a scientist may resort to using the name of God to help explain a problem which, for the moment at least, is over his head. But I'm sure these gifted intellects will ultimately move forward with their findings in this area and I wouldn't dream of discouraging them. Maybe it will be a scientist who makes the greatest discovery of all: God.
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