My intent here is not to argue the theological vs. scientific debate, but reconcile it and place ancient scriptures and writings as recognizable beacons. My exercise on the last page is to step back a bit to review these writings, as well as scientific theories, from a more objective and uninfluenced perspective. As I demonstrated, one little shift, asking, "What if," flattens the creationism/anti-creationism arguement -- logically, reasonably and with no acrimony to either view. It can be further examined, as some discrepancies between a scientific accounting and the biblical accounting did arise, mainly the sequence of life as it appeared. But, it wasn't my point to go too deep into this at this point.

As many of the concepts when regarding the universe, cosmology, micro and macro infinities, space and time are incomprehensible to most of us, so are concepts of spirituality, life, death and God. I would like very much for the man of syntax, sitting on the limb of the oak tree recognize the man of the other syntax, sitting on the opposite limb and vice versa. Sitting on the one limb, the man of syntax directly faced another oak tree and could see no farther and no more than that tree's foilage and could even touch it. The man of the other syntax sat on a limb, on the other side of the tree, that stretched over the edge of a mountainside and could see far-off objects. He couldn't touch them, but he could describe what he observed (within his frames of reference) -- far off mountains, a valley, dramatic sunsets as well as changes of season. A celestial dome encompasses the sky. It's not until they leave the shelter of the oak tree do they see the tree for what it really is -- and they are from the same origin. And it's not until they share each other's perspectives, observances and experiences do they get broader, more comprehensive knowledge, an understanding that breeds wisdom and vision.

Scientific man says that if the history of the universe, to date, were fractalized into a single year, modern man's place in that history didn't appear until 11:58 PM on December 31 (Bennet 43). The dinosaurs roamed here just after Christmas. The first forms of life appeared on Earth sometime in mid-September, just a month after the planets formed, though the Milky Way was born way back in February (Bennet 42).

In real terms, the universe is said to be between 10 and 16 billions years old. If we scale the size of stars to that of atoms (1 to 1019), the Milky Way Galaxy alone would extend the length of a football field. If you were to count each star in the galaxy, basically greater than the equivalent of every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, with one second for each Milky Way star, it would take over three thousand years (Bennet 41). Multiple this by about another 100 billion galaxies. How can we even fathom such extraordinary scale, measurements and distances? Now add the interactiveness, influences and forces abounding within this expanse. Add to this the multi-dimensionality of the human factor with two minutes of mental activity and galaxies of thought. How can one visualize such intricate concepts, no less make logical sense of it -- with our speck of reference? As we did on page 9, with a fractal model, and... fractal thinking. Let's go back to the "Universe" level fractal that we had started our micro examination with, but now, go macro -- beyond the universe -- and find God.




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