Looked up for a reason, apparently

I remember looking closely at this before.



It may have been on the top of a house boat on Lake Powell. Maybe it was looking up from a sleeping bag somewhere. Maybe it was one morning about 5AM coming down back out of Millcreek canyon. I guess I don't look up often enough. Seems like the black looked blacker and the light looked lighter from those places.

Why

I liked this book. It covered a lot of territory. It was a surprise in a way when this author asked the "why" question rather than just the "how" question. That usually does it for me and of course that is "why" I picked his book to reference on a day when just "why" is a good enough question.

When you ask why a lot you tend to forget that perhaps everything happens for a reason. Can it all be for a reason if you can't answer why?

Stephen Hawking has spent a lot of time writing about the Universe but then in this book he concludes the book and his thoughts with this:

"The real question that you need to ask when begin to understand the universe is not "how" it came to be but "why".

He says that to understand "why" would be to begin to know the mind of God.

Einstein sort of concluded one of his books (see prior blog) with a similiar thought. I might add that he comes from the point of view that everything happens for a reason. Einstein says all things happening from cause and effect and thus for a reason, and then he concludes that to see that reality is to know the mind of God.

Two approaches

Short blog tonight. Just a couple of thoughts and a book