WILL UNITING HUMANITY HELP US FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE? by Glen T. Martin
We know a few scientific facts
us, some 37 trillion cells cooperate
about human existence within the
among innumerable organs, all
Cosmos. We know the Cosmos is
coming together to create the
approximately 13.8 billion years old.
beautiful and sublime unity of our
We know from those physicists who
human bodies and minds.
formulated “the Anthropic Principle” that the emergence of intelligent
What is the meaning of this
beings was built into the universe
“immense journey,” as Biologist Loren
from its very inception (see Harris,
Eisley (1959) called it? Why has this
1991). We know that life on planet
creature appeared in the Cosmos? A
Earth has been evolving for some 3.6
creature who has immense problems
billion years and that it has followed
precisely because we are self-aware.
a law of complexification leading to
The other animals may suffer and
us—the most complex production
die under various circumstances. The
of the life force on Earth. Within
lion may kill and eat the antelope. 22
