The Creation
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More Gifts From Science that Awaken Awe & Gratitude & Expand the Soul By Matthew Fox 2/24/2026 |
In their book The View from the Center of the Universe, Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams discuss humanity’s special moment in the history of the universe. We are living in “the midpoint of time for our solar system” when our sun and planets are about five billion years old. Around six billion years from now, our sun will expand and burn Earth to a crisp. |
Our times are special because accelerating expansion is carrying the most distant galaxies away ever faster, and they are disappearing over the cosmic horizon….Our distant descendants, no matter how advanced |
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their telescopes may be, will never be able to see as many galaxies as we can see now. In this sense, our era is the midpoint of cosmic time. One begins to sense why a creation-centered spirituality is the proper spirituality at this moment in cosmic as well as human history. Joel and Nancy tell us that today represents a special window of time that can only happen during a relatively brief epoch in the entire history of the universe: late enough that intelligent beings have evolved who have instruments to observe the distant galaxies, but not so late that the galaxies have begun to disappear.
Without this period of overlap it might have been impossible for intelligent beings ever to get the chance to figure out the nature of the universe. How happy, how grateful, how aware are we that our species is living at this special moment in cosmic time? Should this reality not permeate all our education and religion
and politics and economics and art and work and worship and ritual? Are we creating a civilization worthy of this moment in cosmic history? Is that a way to give thanks for all this? |
Nancy Abrams explains the “Law of Uroboros”: how realizing the vast range of size scales and timescales lying beyond direct human experience can help to solve the global problems defying today’s small-scale perspectives. Science and Nonduality | Primack and Abrams argue that the size of a human being matters, and we are just the right size. The size of a thing “is not arbitrary but crucial to its nature,” they remind us. Why does size matter? Because our size is “the only size
that conscious beings like us could be.” Smaller creatures would not have enough atoms to be sufficiently complex, while larger ones |
would suffer from slow communication. Humans are “at the center of all the possible sizes in the universe.” Human beings are midway between the size of a living cell and the size of Earth. Primack and Abrams talk about the “Goldilocks Principle”: Creatures much smaller than we are could not have sufficient complexity for our kind of intelligence, because they would not be made of a large enough number of atoms. But the intelligent creatures could not be much larger than we are, either, because the speed of nerve impulses—and ultimately the speed of light—becomes a serious internal limitation. We are just the right
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How does that feel—to be just the right size to be intelligent creatures seeking out the questions of where we come from and where we are, and what the universe is? Contrary to such pessimistic theologians as John Calvin and scientists |
Special and unique within a complex and generous creation: cetologist Nan Hauser shares how a humpback whale saved her from a shark, and checked on her afterward. BBC Earth |
such as Bertrand Russell and Stephen Jay Gould, Primack and Abrams conclude that humans are significant to the universe. We are special. Special for our size, for our intelligence and creativity, for the time in which we live in this solar system at this moment of the universe’s expansion over its 14 billion-year history. By the “interplay of the complexity of our brains and the age of the universe,” and in ways that modern cosmology never could have known, we can now say that “humans are at the center of the universe.” |
Queries for Contemplation How does the playing out of the “Goldilocks principle”—this is too small, this is too
large, this is just right—affect your understanding of relating to the whole? To creation itself? How deeply and often do we recognize and remember and celebrate the original blessing of the universe and creation and how it holds and nurtures our existence and our gratitude for existence? |
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