Thursday, March 20, 2008

THE COSMOS AND US - 5

The materials from a previous Nova explosion form the heavy elements which our planets are made of, while the sun is still composed mostly of hydrogen gas, being turned to helium.

The key materials of our planet are carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, and a lot of other things, including metals like iron. Many of these have been formed by complex nuclear cycles in a larger sun than ours, perhaps at the core of our galaxy. We really are made of star-stuff, each of us.

The planets came together the same way the stars did, a bunch of space debris pulled together by its own gravity. Our earth got luckier than most, and came together at the right distance from the sun to keep us alive. The Martians didn’t have that kind of luck, and neither did the Venusians. That’s likely why we can’t find them today.

On our Earth, there is no reason to suppose that life formed any differently than the stars did. There is an intelligence within all things that presses forward to become more and more. That intelligence has evolved into us, and continues to press onward, to greater and greater glory. We cannot be the end.

All human life on Earth has DNA that is identical to 99.99%. We are brothers and sisters, all of us. Recent work shows that all modern people can be traced back to a population of less than two dozen, some 200,000 years ago. This includes all colours and races of humanity.

The Mind within the Universe has brought us up from the ooze of Earth to express itself and be itself. We can have no greater glory than that. We get to express the creative energy of the builder of the stars. We have not merely been brought out of the ooze, but out from the Stars, where it was hot, so that we can be cool.

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