OUR LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, MY STUDIES AND WRITINGS HAVE PRESENTED THE FACT THAT CREATION AND THE NATURAL WORLD ARE EXTREMELY COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND INTELLECTUALLY. I HAVE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT SCIENCE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY HAVE MADE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR EFFLUENT LIFE STYLES, WHILE ACCELERATING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATURAL WORLD. LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY IS HINDERING OUR ABILITY TO FULLY THE NATURAL WORLD. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT OUR RELIANCE ON SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF CREATION, ARE LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND THE RELATIONSHIPS LIFE RELIES UPON FROM THAT WORLD. THE GRASP THE COMPLEXITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE NATURAL WORLD. OUR RELIANCE ON SCIENTIFIC REASONING IS COMPLICATING OUR ABILITY TO DISCUSS AND APPRECIATE THE ROLE NATURE PLAYS IN EARTH’S LIFE SYSTEMS.
SCIENTIFIC REASONING TENDS TO SEE THINGS AS RIGHT OR WRONG, TRUE OR FALSE, WHICH LIMITS OUR ABILITY TO COMPREHEND COMPLEX TOPICS LIKE NATURE AND LIFE ON EARTH. THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES USE OF VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS AND NUMERICAL LABELING MAKES PUBLIC COMPREHENSION MORE DIFFICULT. THE SCIENCE OF FORESTRY IS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE, WHERE FORESTRY HAS BEEN DEFINED AS “GROWING TREES AS CROPS”, RATHER THAN THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS FORESTS PROVIDE IN THE SUSTENANCE OF LIFE ON EARTH. FORESTS ARE AN AMALGAMATION OF INDIVIDUAL ECOSYSTEMS WHICH SUSTAIN, CLOSE TO EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE LIVING ORGANISMS ON EARTH. OUR INTELLECTUAL REASONING IS LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE APPRECIATION FOR OUR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN LIFE SYSTEMS ON OUR PLANET.
ONE CANNOT DENY THE TREMENDOUS ADVANCEMENTS HUMANITY HAS MADE IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE, BUT THE COMPLEXITY OF MANY OF TODAY'S ISSUES DEMAND MORE. TO OBTAIN FULL ENLIGHTENMENT ON THESE COMPLEX ISSUES REQUIRES ETHICAL, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROSPECTIVE. UNDERSTANDING NATURE, FOR EXAMPLE, REQUIRES COMPREHENDING THE UNIQUE ELEMENTS, LIKE CONNECTIONS, DIVERSITY, RELATIONSHIPS AND NATURAL PROCESSES, THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNED INTO THE NATURAL WORLD. WE KNOW HOW TREES, THROUGH PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE AND CONVERT IT TO NUTRIENTS, WHILE RELEASING OXYGEN INTO THE AIR WE BREATH. WE HAVE LEARNED HOW THE TRANSPIRATION PROCESS RECYCLES THE WATER THAT SUSTAINS LIFE. HOWEVER, UNDERSTANDING FROM WHERE, WHY AND HOW THESE PROCESSES WERE DESIGNED INTO NATURE IS BEYOND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION. COMPREHENDING THE ROLE, THE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES WITHIN AN ECOSYSTEM CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUNCTIONING AND BALANCE OF THE ECOSYSTEM REMAINS A MYSTERY.
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED WE ARE NOW ENTERING A NEW ERA WHICH IS DEFINED BY HUMANITY’S ABILITY TO INFLUENCE THE PLANET AND NATURE. OUR INTELLIGENCE HAS ADVANCED SO MUCH, WE CAN NOW MANIPULATE AND CONTROL GOD’S CREATION! IN THIS NEW ERA, WE NOW HAVE THE ARROGANT INTELLIGENCE WE BELIEVE, TO CHANGE AND MANIPULATE THE EARTH TO MEET OUR NEEDS AND DESIRES. WE CAN DESIGN A BETTER PLANET! THIS NEW ERA HAS BEEN LABELED, “THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA”. THE TRUTH IS, THE INNER MOST WORKINGS OF NATURE, EARTH AND LIFE REMAIN BEYOND HUMAN EXPLANATION OR COMPREHENSION. YES, WE CAN SEND MANKIND INTO SPACE AND BRING THEM BACK, BUT UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS REMAINS A MYSTERY.
MANY OF THE ISSUES INVOLVING CREATION AND LIFE SYSTEMS, REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE VARIETY OF RELATIONSHIPS FUNCTIONING WITHIN THESE SYSTEMS. SCIENTIFIC REASONING ATTEMPTS TO SIMPLIFY THINGS BY BREAKING THEM INTO INDIVIDUAL PARTS FOR ANALYSIS. UNFORTUNATELY, UNDERSTANDING THE UNIQUE NATURAL WORLD AND ITS COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS, DEMANDS SEEING THE INTEGRITY OF THE WHOLE AND THE VAST RELATIONSHIPS THAT SUSTAIN LIFE ON EARTH. WE MUST STUDY OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH THE WISDOM TO SEE OUR INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS AND LACK OF HUMILITY.
SO, THE BIG QUESTION, “HOW DO WE FIND THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE TO APPRECIATE THIS COMPLEX MAGICAL WORLD WE LIVE IN?” AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE SEARCHING FOR WISDOM, WE HAVE EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO ELIMINATE HISTORICAL DATA FROM OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES. THESE EFFORTS WILL ELIMINATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MUCH-NEEDED INTELLECTUAL REASONING REQUIRED FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR REMAINING NATURAL WORLD AND FUTURE LIFE. INSTEAD, WE NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON EXPANDING THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF OUR YOUTH. A CONTINUED FOCUS ON ENGLISH, MATH AND SCIENCE IS NECESSARY, HOWEVER HISTORY MUST FOCUS ON NOT COMMITTING THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST. CONSIDERABLY MORE COMPREHENSIVE REASONING IS NEEDED IN UNDERSTANDING THE LIFE SYSTEMS THAT DEPEND UPON THE NATURAL WORLD.
I HAVE EXPRESSED THE NECESSITY OF INTRODUCING EVEN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TO THE PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY IN PAST WRITINGS. I EVEN PUBLISHED A BOOK ENTITLED, “I’M JUST A TREE-LIFE DEPENDS ON ME”, TO ILLUSTRATE HOW TO BEGIN TO INTRODUCE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS TO ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS. ECOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL FOR BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURAL WORLD. I HAVE PRESENTED SEVERAL PROGRAMS, AT PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, WHERE I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO EVEN REFER TO CREATION. THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW POLITICAL SEPARATION OF RELIGION FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION HAS INTERRUPTED LEARNING ABOUT NATURE AND LIFE SYSTEMS. STEPHEN JAY GOULD SUGGESTS THAT TODAY, “WE REQUIRE A DEEPER REVERENCE AND RESPECT FOR WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND”. EXPANDING OUR PHILOSOPHIC KNOWLEDGE BASE IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMANITY’S FUTURE. RELYING ON A SCIENTIFIC DERIVED UNDERSTANDING AS THE ONLY BASES FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD, PROVIDES ONLY LIMITED BELIEFS IN MATERIAL AND UTILITARIAN OUTCOMES. IF WE FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE INADEQUACY OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING ABOUT NATURE, WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WE REQUIRE FROM THE NATURAL WORLD. TO PROPERLY MANAGE AND PROTECT THE FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMS THAT MAKE UP PLANET EARTH, SCIENCE MUST ACCEPT, WITH HUMILITY, THEIR LIMITS, AND RECOGNIZE THE EMOTIONAL, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL REASONING THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED INTO THE WORLD OF NATURE. THIS WILL REQUIRE BROADENING OUR EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES TO INCLUDE EMPIRICAL OBSERVATION, FAITH, HUMILITY AND EXPERIMENTATION. HINDERING THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF OUR YOUTH BY REMOVING HISTORICAL DATA AND OPEN DISCUSSION IS UNACCEPTABLE. INTELLECT MUST BE SUBLIMATED WITH WISDOM. WE NEED SCIENTISTS THAT ARE NOT ONLY SMART BUT WISE!
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, MY STUDIES AND WRITINGS HAVE PRESENTED THE FACT THAT CREATION AND THE NATURAL WORLD ARE EXTREMELY COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND INTELLECTUALLY. I HAVE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT SCIENCE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY HAVE MADE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR EFFLUENT LIFE STYLES, WHILE ACCELERATING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATURAL WORLD. LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY IS HINDERING OUR ABILITY TO FULLY THE NATURAL WORLD. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT OUR RELIANCE ON SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF CREATION, ARE LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE NATURAL WORLD AND THE RELATIONSHIPS LIFE RELIES UPON FROM THAT WORLD. THE GRASP THE COMPLEXITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE NATURAL WORLD. OUR RELIANCE ON SCIENTIFIC REASONING IS COMPLICATING OUR ABILITY TO DISCUSS AND APPRECIATE THE ROLE NATURE PLAYS IN EARTH’S LIFE SYSTEMS.
SCIENTIFIC REASONING TENDS TO SEE THINGS AS RIGHT OR WRONG, TRUE OR FALSE, WHICH LIMITS OUR ABILITY TO COMPREHEND COMPLEX TOPICS LIKE NATURE AND LIFE ON EARTH. THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES USE OF VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS AND NUMERICAL LABELING MAKES PUBLIC COMPREHENSION MORE DIFFICULT. THE SCIENCE OF FORESTRY IS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE, WHERE FORESTRY HAS BEEN DEFINED AS “GROWING TREES AS CROPS”, RATHER THAN THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS FORESTS PROVIDE IN THE SUSTENANCE OF LIFE ON EARTH. FORESTS ARE AN AMALGAMATION OF INDIVIDUAL ECOSYSTEMS WHICH SUSTAIN, CLOSE TO EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE LIVING ORGANISMS ON EARTH. OUR INTELLECTUAL REASONING IS LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE APPRECIATION FOR OUR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN LIFE SYSTEMS ON OUR PLANET.
ONE CANNOT DENY THE TREMENDOUS ADVANCEMENTS HUMANITY HAS MADE IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE, BUT THE COMPLEXITY OF MANY OF TODAY'S ISSUES DEMAND MORE. TO OBTAIN FULL ENLIGHTENMENT ON THESE COMPLEX ISSUES REQUIRES ETHICAL, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROSPECTIVE. UNDERSTANDING NATURE, FOR EXAMPLE, REQUIRES COMPREHENDING THE UNIQUE ELEMENTS, LIKE CONNECTIONS, DIVERSITY, RELATIONSHIPS AND NATURAL PROCESSES, THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNED INTO THE NATURAL WORLD. WE KNOW HOW TREES, THROUGH PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE AND CONVERT IT TO NUTRIENTS, WHILE RELEASING OXYGEN INTO THE AIR WE BREATH. WE HAVE LEARNED HOW THE TRANSPIRATION PROCESS RECYCLES THE WATER THAT SUSTAINS LIFE. HOWEVER, UNDERSTANDING FROM WHERE, WHY AND HOW THESE PROCESSES WERE DESIGNED INTO NATURE IS BEYOND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION. COMPREHENDING THE ROLE, THE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES WITHIN AN ECOSYSTEM CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUNCTIONING AND BALANCE OF THE ECOSYSTEM REMAINS A MYSTERY.
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED WE ARE NOW ENTERING A NEW ERA WHICH IS DEFINED BY HUMANITY’S ABILITY TO INFLUENCE THE PLANET AND NATURE. OUR INTELLIGENCE HAS ADVANCED SO MUCH, WE CAN NOW MANIPULATE AND CONTROL GOD’S CREATION! IN THIS NEW ERA, WE NOW HAVE THE ARROGANT INTELLIGENCE WE BELIEVE, TO CHANGE AND MANIPULATE THE EARTH TO MEET OUR NEEDS AND DESIRES. WE CAN DESIGN A BETTER PLANET! THIS NEW ERA HAS BEEN LABELED, “THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA”. THE TRUTH IS, THE INNER MOST WORKINGS OF NATURE, EARTH AND LIFE REMAIN BEYOND HUMAN EXPLANATION OR COMPREHENSION. YES, WE CAN SEND MANKIND INTO SPACE AND BRING THEM BACK, BUT UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS REMAINS A MYSTERY.
MANY OF THE ISSUES INVOLVING CREATION AND LIFE SYSTEMS, REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE VARIETY OF RELATIONSHIPS FUNCTIONING WITHIN THESE SYSTEMS. SCIENTIFIC REASONING ATTEMPTS TO SIMPLIFY THINGS BY BREAKING THEM INTO INDIVIDUAL PARTS FOR ANALYSIS. UNFORTUNATELY, UNDERSTANDING THE UNIQUE NATURAL WORLD AND ITS COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS, DEMANDS SEEING THE INTEGRITY OF THE WHOLE AND THE VAST RELATIONSHIPS THAT SUSTAIN LIFE ON EARTH. WE MUST STUDY OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH THE WISDOM TO SEE OUR INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS AND LACK OF HUMILITY.
SO, THE BIG QUESTION, “HOW DO WE FIND THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE TO APPRECIATE THIS COMPLEX MAGICAL WORLD WE LIVE IN?” AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE SEARCHING FOR WISDOM, WE HAVE EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO ELIMINATE HISTORICAL DATA FROM OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES. THESE EFFORTS WILL ELIMINATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MUCH-NEEDED INTELLECTUAL REASONING REQUIRED FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR REMAINING NATURAL WORLD AND FUTURE LIFE. INSTEAD, WE NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON EXPANDING THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF OUR YOUTH. A CONTINUED FOCUS ON ENGLISH, MATH AND SCIENCE IS NECESSARY, HOWEVER HISTORY MUST FOCUS ON NOT COMMITTING THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST. CONSIDERABLY MORE COMPREHENSIVE REASONING IS NEEDED IN UNDERSTANDING THE LIFE SYSTEMS THAT DEPEND UPON THE NATURAL WORLD.
I HAVE EXPRESSED THE NECESSITY OF INTRODUCING EVEN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TO THE PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY IN PAST WRITINGS. I EVEN PUBLISHED A BOOK ENTITLED, “I’M JUST A TREE-LIFE DEPENDS ON ME”, TO ILLUSTRATE HOW TO BEGIN TO INTRODUCE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS TO ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS. ECOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL FOR BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURAL WORLD. I HAVE PRESENTED SEVERAL PROGRAMS, AT PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, WHERE I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO EVEN REFER TO CREATION. THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW POLITICAL SEPARATION OF RELIGION FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION HAS INTERRUPTED LEARNING ABOUT NATURE AND LIFE SYSTEMS. STEPHEN JAY GOULD SUGGESTS THAT TODAY, “WE REQUIRE A DEEPER REVERENCE AND RESPECT FOR WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND”. EXPANDING OUR PHILOSOPHIC KNOWLEDGE BASE IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMANITY’S FUTURE. RELYING ON A SCIENTIFIC DERIVED UNDERSTANDING AS THE ONLY BASES FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL WORLD, PROVIDES ONLY LIMITED BELIEFS IN MATERIAL AND UTILITARIAN OUTCOMES. IF WE FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE INADEQUACY OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING ABOUT NATURE, WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WE REQUIRE FROM THE NATURAL WORLD. TO PROPERLY MANAGE AND PROTECT THE FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMS THAT MAKE UP PLANET EARTH, SCIENCE MUST ACCEPT, WITH HUMILITY, THEIR LIMITS, AND RECOGNIZE THE EMOTIONAL, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL REASONING THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED INTO THE WORLD OF NATURE. THIS WILL REQUIRE BROADENING OUR EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES TO INCLUDE EMPIRICAL OBSERVATION, FAITH, HUMILITY AND EXPERIMENTATION. HINDERING THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF OUR YOUTH BY REMOVING HISTORICAL DATA AND OPEN DISCUSSION IS UNACCEPTABLE. INTELLECT MUST BE SUBLIMATED WITH WISDOM. WE NEED SCIENTISTS THAT ARE NOT ONLY SMART BUT WISE!
