Our Life Purpose on Earth
I write this thought
below in reply to a question sent to me by my former course mate Dr. Janet on
her and on her colleagues’ behalf.
My answer:
Thank you Dr. Janet
for your email and long list of technical questions
On your first
question, no, I did not get your previous email. Which email address did you
use?
I have many email
addresses previously that cannot be used anymore. It is best you use the
current e-mail address you sent, or WhatsApp or text message me the next time
to alert me for future communications.
Yes, on your e-mail
question you shared with others, I really do not know the answer Janet. For
instance in question 7 you asked on your list, I have been wondering myself the
purpose of our physical existence in this world
Here’s what’s I
feel and can share with you
Our Purpose in
Life:
We were born into
this world, go to school, onwards to college or university, look for a job or
some kind of a livelihood, get married, have a family, then we die off, leaving
completely everything behind us, and let our children take over to do exactly
the same aim and objective generations
after generations.
If the Creation of the Universe through the Big Bang was 13.8
billion years ago, and if our human life span at maximum last for a 100 years in
comparison, then it is only (7.2 x 10-9) or 0.0,000,000,072 of this,
and only 2.2 x 10-8, or 0.000,000,022
of a fraction compared the creation of Earth 4.543 billion years
ago.
Another way of putting this is, if the age of
the Universe at 13.8 billion years was just one day of Creation, then 100 years
of our lives lasts for just 6.3 x 10-4 second (0.00063 second)
But if the age of Earth at
4.543 billion years was just one day in Creation, then 100 years of
our lives last just 1.9 x 10—3 second
(0.0019 sec) or 0.002 second
Mankind has been
doing this for a few hundred thousands of years after his existence and
agricultural life in this world.
But what is their
aim, objective and purpose for this repeated cycle in life most of us may not
have not much of a clue
The uncanny feeling
I have here is there must be some other purpose for our existence than merely to
enjoy life as your colleague Prof Dr. NC Tan thinks which of course I highly
disagree.
My feeling is there
must be a very much higher purpose of our flickering and extremely short
biological and physical existence in this world. We shall discuss this as I
write on. But first, let us understand just a little bit on astronomy. Let’s
begin with the size of this world of ours.
Size of this World:
I have written a
tiny bit on this earlier in my blog here:
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=grain+of+sand
But let us illustrate this in another way.
If we take the
Earth radius from its center to a point on its surface, its dimension
is from a near maximum 6,378 km at the equator to a near minimum
6,357 km at the poles.
If we consider the
distance from equator to pole along the circumference as 10,000 km, its radius
is roughly 6,367 km, somewhat close to halfway between the minimum and maximum.
Normally for all
astronomical calculations we consider the Earth’s radius as 6,371 km with 0.3%
variability (+/- 10 km) for various reasons we shall not go into.
Let us now consider
the size of the Sun. Its solar radius is defined as the radius to the
layer in the Sun's photosphere where the optical
depth which is 2/3 of its layer.
Without going into
the complexities of its structure we would put the value of its radius as:
6.957 x 10^5 km or
= 6.957 x 10 5 km
= 695,700,000 metres.
Hence its volume V is:
4/3 π r3 = 1.41 x 1027
cubic metres.
The volume of Earth
from her radius = 1.08 x 1021 cubic metres
Hence, volume of
Sun-Earth ratio = 1,305,000
The Schwarzschild radius
(2GM / c^2) of the Observable Universe is 13.7 billion light years or
1.3×1026 m
(1 light year =
9.461x 1015 metres).
Hence its Schwarzschild
volume is 9.1 x 1078 cubic metres.
In other words, 8.4
x 1057 (84 followed by 56 zeros) Earths can go into the volume of
the Universe while 6.45 x 1051 (645 followed by 49 zeros) Suns can
enter into the Universe.
Number of Worlds:
Now let us look at
our Solar System and other stellar systems. Our Solar System has 8 planets –
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and a number of
dwarf planets including Pluto, Eris, Ceres Haumea and Makeke. Let’s put the
number as 10 for convenience.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way,
is a large disk-shaped barred-spiral galaxy about 30 kiloparsecs in
diameter and a kiloparsec thick.
It contains about two hundred billion
(2 x 10 11) stars and has a total mass of about six hundred billion
(6 x1011) times the mass of the Sun.
Some estimates put the numbers of
stars in our Milky Way Galaxy as 150 – 250 billion (1.5 x 10 11 –
2.5 x 10 11).
We do not really know how many galaxies are there in
the Universe. Various estimates among different experts have been given between
100 billion – 250 billion.
Some estimates have put the numbers as high as two trillion
galaxies in the Universe. Most of the estimates were based on studies from the Hubble Space Telescope. An acceptable range is between 100 billion and 200
billion galaxies.
Let us use just one
rough estimate for the sake of easier understanding and calculation. We shall
scale this down to just 200 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, and equal
number of 200 billion galaxies in the Universe.
Since we really do
not know how many planets (exoplanets) are there in each stellar system, we
need to use our Solar System as the sole example. We may roughly say instead of
8 planets, there are 10 including dwarf planets asteroids or minor planets and
planetoids in other stellar systems.
We shall for easy
calculation, we shall use one out of ten planets in each stellar system that is
exactly like Earth that harbors life. However in most stellar systems the
picture may be entirely different
They may have much
more than 10 exoplanets or less circulating around each star, but we have no
idea how many are Earth-like planets that can harbor life as we know it on
Earth.
They may even have
not just one Earth-like planet, but a group or a family of them at equidistance
from their star, but spaced apart among them in their star system all within
what we call a habitable Goldilocks Zone where it is neither too hot, nor too
cold that can support life. We just do not know what’s out there in such an
unspeakable immensity of this Universe.
In 1961 Frank Drake, an American
astronomer and astrophysicist wrote out an equation to stimulate our thought,
not just on the existence of life in an Earth-like exoplanet outside our own,
but even intelligent civilizations. He wrote out his equation during the first
scientific meeting in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). But
we shall not go into the equation.
Let us presume a
very modest average of just 200 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy and
a modest average of 200 billion galaxies in the Universe, and assuming we only
have one planet we call it as an exoplanet in each stellar system that has life
on it similar to Earth within its Goldilocks Zone, then this works out to be:
= 4 x 10 22 (40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
Earth-like worlds in the Universe.
This estimate is
just a very, very modest number so as to be within our human comprehension
Possibilities of
Far More Beautiful Worlds:
Given this very
humble estimate on the numbers of Earth-like worlds in heavens, if you were to
ask me, I am very convinced there may be far, far more advanced and far more
beautiful worlds out there that we have no idea.
There may be worlds
out there where there is no pain, no suffering, no illness, and where there is
no death unlike us here. I really do not know because so far we have not
detected the existence of any life in other planets, or do we have any acceptable
definition of life or something living out of more than 100 definitions being offered.
If our sole purpose
in life on Earth is merely to enjoy life in this world from birth-to death for
a maximum of 100 years life-span then vanishes away into the soil from where we
came as star-dusts without any more memory of past enjoyment, this to me makes
completely no sense or for any purpose.
On your question
Janet on what are our requirements here.
My answer Janet is,
we are so unique and inimitable because throughout the evolution of life on
Earth since the Cambrian Explosion 542 – 488 million years when most life
on Earth suddenly bloomed peacefully like flowers in a field overnight, we are
the only one that emerged much later who requires more than just food, and
unable to live in peace with each other.
No other life in
the open fields requires houses and large bungalows too, cars, transport,
telephones, televisions, computers, or worry about the type of clothes we need to
wear or the food we must or must not take …etc. down the material list. If they
need shelter they will just burrow into the sand, mud, or find a hole in among
the tress or live in a cave without the need for cement, concrete, bricks and
steel or anything that destroys their simple habitats like we do.
No other species of
life demands any of these yet God feeds and take care of all of them including
the birds in the air and the lilies in the fields until they live out their
natural lives. But for humans we cannot survival without these demands. We are
truly very exceptional, very unique and biologically the only animal of its
kind among an estimated 10 million other life forms God created
Spiritual Purpose:
What then is a
purpose in life for us at a maximum of 100 fleeting short years is, we need to
answer ourselves. There must be a much higher spiritual purpose outside our
biological existence merely to breed, feed, consume, enjoy life, and die off.
“Let
us eat and drink, (and be merry) for tomorrow we die.” (Isaiah 22:13)
First of all, we have
neither the knowledge, wisdom nor the vision to fathom across the physical and
material dimension of this world other than eating, drinking and be merry
before we die. In short we live here like a frog-in-a-well.
Spiritually Blind
in a Physical World:
Without this wisdom
and vision, far as I know we are the only species of life on this tiny-tiny
world that is multiplying, consuming, destroying, congesting and polluting and
also who fights and goes to war to kill and destroy each other for neither any
biological purpose nor spiritual gains.
No other animal on Earth, an estimated 10 -12 million other species of life on
this planet does the same as us. We are very unique. Most other animals fight
or kill solely for food but we fight for no rhyme or reason other
than to support our rights and egos.
We may be highly
knowledgeable and intelligent in science, technology, in medicine, and in all
other knowledge and information technology existing in this physical dimension because
we currently exist in this physical world but in this dimension we are
spiritually blind because the spiritual world belongs to another dimension we
cannot cross over till until our spiritual body leaves our physical body.
In such a scenario
the existence of spiritual worlds in heavens is blind to us as we see
everything now darkly through a glass. We are the only creature of creation or
from evolution on Earth that makes us so very unique, with no purpose here
except our biological and physical existence.
We are the only one
of its kind as a thinking, intelligent and social animal zoologically speaking.
You may be tempted to ask what then is the purpose of other life forms on this
planet. You may be excused to answer all other animals and life species do not
have the same thinking brain as we to be able to ask and answer this question.
However, as far as
I am guided in answering to honor and to worship our Creator I have a different
answer.
My guided thinking
for the purpose of this vast diversity of life on this world is to clearly show
us there are also as many other types of life and civilizations elsewhere among
the estimated 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Earth-like worlds in the Universe
as there are life forms in this world – a credit I wish to adore and worship my
Creator.
In short, other
types of life and civilizations exist throughout the immensity of heavens as
much as we have the vast biodiversity in this world. That’s somehow my uncanny guided
answer.
A Lesson in
Bacteriology and Cancer Biology:
In what manner is
our purpose in life if we are not only in constant conflict with each other,
but multiples like cancer cells only to consume the limited resources
available like petroleum, gas, coal, energy, water, given to us, and use them
to construct buildings, factories, houses, cars, trains, planes to congest and
pollute.
Our existence here
is not just like cancer cells that finally kills the entire body, similar to
killing all life on Earth, but similar to colonies of bacteria cultured in a
Petri dish that begins with a lag phrase of no growth, then a sudden
accelerated logarithmic growth rate, then stabilizes its population or colonies,
before finally all die off due to depletion of nutrient (food shortage), lack
of space, and accumulation of toxic waste (pollution).
That’s
exactly also the physical purpose of our existence for most people in this
world as far as I can see. We are just like a colony of bacteria in a Petri
dish watched by a bacteriologist outside his culture dish.
In the
laboratory of a scientist, he may have countless other empty culture plates lying
around that he did not culture any bacteria on them, but among these empty
culture plates he has placed many other life cultures nearby as much as we
think this world is the only planet that is teeming with life while other
worlds are all devoid of life. That’s what we think. Remember the figure of 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or 40,000 billion, billion Earth-like worlds in the Universe or heavens in
spiritual term
On this Earth as
our culture plate, not only consume, congest and pollute to destroy the entire
eco-environment meant for other life species that too have the right to be
here, but we also use all the resources to increase our population to
construct bombs, biological weapons, missiles, rockets, guns and weapons
and store them as arsenals of all sorts ready to destroy ourselves and others.
This is our political purpose.
Even for the
peaceful but selfish needs our purpose is to build and destroy the natural
environment, and in so doing, we are also destroying the existence of other
species of life by destroying their habitats. What rights have we?
What then is the
purpose of life here when Earth is the only dwelling place we have? There must
be a much higher purpose of our existence blind to most people because we are
all teeming like frogs inside a well. No other life forms out of the 10 -12
million others are as destructive, exclusive, and distinctive as we.
Evolution of Life:
Life goes into a
chain of cycles. The largest and strongest of life preys on the weakest solely
for food, while we have no larger and stronger predators except the most
primitive and the smallest bacteria and viruses here to stay. Bacteria and
viruses were the first to emerge 4,000 million years ago when the first
prebiotic chemistry became possible.
Three thousand
eight hundred (3,800) million years ago RNA world shown by the first chemical
fossil became available as viruses, and 3,600 million years ago the first
DNA protein life came into existence. We were the last to emerge, but
we shall also be the first to be wiped out from the surface of this planet. As
far as I understand most of us have no purpose here.
The humble bacteria
and viruses shall be the last to exist when the Sun runs out of nuclear fuel.
We shall go into this later.
Emergence of
Humans:
I strongly believe the first true human created was Adam and Eve as given in Genesis.
However from the anthropological point of view as scientists see it, primitive hominids so unlike Adam and Eve may have existed about 1.8
million years ago when Homo habilis emerged out of Africa, and 1.6 million
years ago Homo erectus was found in Asia, 600,000 years ago Human /
Neanderthal spilt, 500,000 years ago Homo erectus use fire, and 355,000
years ago Homo heidelbergensis footprints were found, while 200,000 years ago
anatomically modern human emerged, followed 250,000 – 160,000 years ago
when we found the emergence of Homo sapiens.
Since 120,000 years
ago Homo language may have been possible. The earliest civilizations
developed between 4000 and 3000 BCE, when the rise of agriculture and
trade allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability.
What was the
purpose of that human emergence, it is best I leave it for others to
answer?
Early
Civilizations and Wars:
The earliest
civilizations developed between 4000 and 3000 BCE, when the rise of
agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplus food and economic
stability.
Ever since the time
of Mesopotamia, there was constant strife and war. Even after Sargon the
Great of Akkad (around 2334 - 2279 BCE) unified region
under the Akkadian Empire, war was still waged, perhaps mainly against
rebellions or fending off invaders. In the Early
Dynastic Period of Egypt (c. 3150-c. 2613 BCE) war too started
when the Pharaoh Manes of the south conquered the region of northern
Egypt.
In China too
during the Zhou Dynasty battle was recorded in 1046 BCE within
the Warring States Period around 476-221 BCE, and was resolved
when the State of Qin defeated the other contending states in battle and unified
China under the rule of Emperor Shi Huangdi around 221-210
BCE.
Ever since all the
way down the history of mankind we have been fighting and fighting against each
other till the last one Iraq War and Insurgency between 2003 to
2011 beside World War II from 1939 to September 2, 1945.
Wars rained on us
from Above:
"When the Lamb broke the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come."
I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death;
and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of
the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the
wild beasts of the earth"
(Revelation 6:7 -8)
A third of the population of the
earth would be killed by these four angels and the army which they
lead (Rev. Rev. 9:16-18). Death will come by three means: fire,
smoke, and brimstone. See commentary on Revelation 9:18.
The trumpet judgments share a pattern
of affecting one-third of what they target. In the first trumpet judgment,
a third of the trees were burned up (Rev. Rev. 8:7). In the
second trumpet judgment, a third of the sea became blood,
a third of the creatures in the sea perish, and a third of
the ships were destroyed
(Rev. Rev. 8:8-9)
"And the four angels who had
been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to
kill a third of mankind."
(Revelation 9:15).
We are the only
creature on this planet that goes to war, while a Creator above is to kill
us as given in some of the many biblical verses. In contrast all other
creatures that live their lives peacefully are hardly attacked by pestilence
and pandemic like we do. We are unique, very irreplaceable indeed.
Why Only
Us:
It is little wonder
to me why the diseases and pandemics like SARS-Covid-2 and all other
ancient and past plagues, famines, and pestilences befall only upon us as prescribed
by an Intelligent Designer from above as given in Revelation 9:15, while
the meek and humble viruses below created also by the same Intelligent Designer chose
not to attack or touch any other species of life in this world?
You need to ask
both Prof Tan and Dr. Susan Lee for the reason since they claim our purpose
here is just to enjoy life, when they are blind to the untold myriads of
other worlds out there in this horrendous immensity of this Universe.
If we think we are
the most adapted, the most advanced form of life socially, economically,
scientifically, technologically, and the strongest among all other species whom
we can take advantage and for granted, why then are we so afraid of this
SARS-Covid-2 virus that is the smallest and the most primitive down here that
is at war with us? In truth biologically we are the weakest and least
adaptable among all other life because we cannot survival without having all
the material things already described
All other animals
are being attacked by larger predators only for food, but ours exclusively by a
tiny- tiny virus to get rid of us is my personal answer.
Perhaps we are the
most complicated species that needs to be periodically cut down for the
benefit of all other life that too have the right to exist on Earth.
How Long
More:
The life span
of our Sun like most other stars shown in
the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram has about nine or 10 billion
years. The Sun is about halfway through her life's journey and is now
about 4.603 billion years old. It is destroying itself at a
rate of 4,000,000 metric tons every second with an energy output
of 3.8 x 1026 Joules per second so as to sustain all
life on Earth. So this time given to us is more than ample for us to think
this over while the Sun still shines for our existence.
If we think this
thinking of mine is not for you, or good enough for you or for others, you need
to ask someone else with better spiritual vision
My Personal Answer:
But if you were to
ask me what my personal purpose in life is, I will straight away tell you, I
have been sustained long enough so that I can be guided by His infinite wisdom and
power of His Creation for my existence to pen this article as my personal answer.
I shall write to
you again in greater details Janet to answer your other questions as I not
slept the entire night
Thank you again for
your personal communication.
Kind regards to you
and to all your elite and knowledgeable friends and colleagues out there in
your chat group.
Good Morning to you, and have a pleasant day.
lim ju boo
