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The Ultimate Truth and Answer to Everything is 42?

Added by GordonAten on Jun 18, 2009 | Visited by 5127 | Voted by 73 persons

Reading on the Truthsquare the two interesting truths about "Angels and Demons" movie and about the devastating consequences of global warming, have provoked some strange thoughts in my head, and I'd like to test their truthfulness.



In the fascinatingly excellent movie "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" the super computer was asked what is the ultimate answer to everything, so it thinks 7.5 million years and then finally answers that the ultimate answer to the universe and to everything is ... 42. After all that tough and long thinking the computer breaks.



I do not have 7 millions of years to find the answer, neither do you. We need an answer to the questions of our lifetime now: what is it, why is it, and what shall we do with it?



In this context 42 has its rightful meaning in the sense that 42 seems to be the Rubicon of our lives, its middle top: until that age one collects, absorbs and learns, while after that age we are expected to give, teach and help.



I wonder what would Charles Darwin reply to this question? Especially taking into account the catastrophic consequences of human activity like climate change, wars, depletion of natural resources, enormous production of waste as a result of rapidly growing civilization, which it cannot process. Why would monkeys turn into human beings so that those human beings would destroy the habitat not only of the same monkeys?



Maybe explaining evolution from materialistic point of view was easy for Darwin at that time. But from the point of view of logic and taking into account the amount of knowledge the humanity possesses nowadays, the Darwinist model seems to be quite misleading.



First of all, Mother Nature is perfect through its genial simplicity. Everything has its simple role and Purpose. So, even if we assume that some kind of lightning and fire produced the first protein, which developed into some sort of mono-cell organism, then that should have been the end of story, because that bacteria should have consumed itself. There might have been a lot of other fires with lightnings for the mono-cell protein to evolve into a fish, then into a crocodile, then into a crocodile with hands, who got onto land, then stand up and so on. But it had no Purpose, if this had been the right explanation to life.



Secondly, Mother Nature is genial through its Beauty, proportions and right and logic geometry. Even millions of years of lightning and fires and "accidental mutations in chromosomes" would never truly explain the genial Beauty of the World. Because, again, the evolution would have selected the simple forms for simple purpose of eating for survival. Nothing more. (In this case we should have probably been some octopus like creatures with many arms and mouthes, no skeletons, and eyes all over around to better see the prey.)



Thirdly, Mother Nature evolves on antipodes: male and female beginnings. From the point of view of evolution, this is an unnecessary complexity, whereas Hermaphrodism is a far simpler and reliable solution.



Fourthly, the revolutionary development of material science lately is unexpectedly raising much more questions about the exclusively materialist theory of this world, than Charles Darwin and other convinced materialists even recently would have foreseen. Scientists are unable to explain many archaeological and historical findings. (Until now no one knows for sure how pyramids have been built! Or what was really first: chicken or egg?) But the most important in our context are the huge "missing link" in the evolution from primates to homo sapiens, and where comes the light of conscience from.



Last, but not least, if according to Darwin theory the homo sapiens is the evolutionary peak and perfection, then why we kill each other, why we destroy our habitat? Why we actively can use only about 15% of our brain capacity (some more, some - less), and evolution didn't help us overcome this "imperfect" limitation? (Probably we will be able to use the brain's full capacity when we will become able to manage its full power and not ultimately annihilate ourselves!)



Frankly, I don't know the Truth. I guess, we are simply not the top of the evolutionary pyramid, and there is something or someone over us. A creative universal cosmic force, unknown to us, or extraterrestrials, or, simply, God.



Obviously, I'd like to know it, and I keep "digging". But let it remain a big Mystery - that's another Beauty of Life.



However, I definitely agree with the 7.5 million years answer to everything: IT IS 42! It is 42 things for everyone: values, words, meanings, principles, years, and so on. It would be good if such values as God, love, peace, compassion, help and so on, would become a common denominator for all. And when these 42 true meanings will coincide for all people, then the ultimate Truth will be discovered.