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can also describe the rules of a football game, but the rules do not explain the players'
performance in place and time in relation to the upcoming Super bowl, or a potential Supreme
Being that initiated a Big Bang or origin of life. Furthermore, both our scientific and human
sensors/senses may not be acute enough to detect what we do not know. Our eyes interpret
visible light electric signals for our brains linked to past stored experience but other animals,
like birds see (interpret) different wavelengths; sharks and crocodiles have senses that detect
electrical fields we cannot; elephants feel vibrations we cannot; and when somebody speaks in
Chinese or writes notes of music they understand it but others cannot understand, and that does
not mean these other “realities” do not exist. Most great scientific discoveries have been based
on the idea that things were set into an ordered state that have been hinted to by religious
belief, even in the early period of Einstein's theories of 1905. Both Charles Spurgeon in 1855
and Cyrus Scofield in his translation in the early 1900s, having been under the influence of
both D.L. Moody and Hudson Taylor of China fame, more recently the Roman Catholic Church
since debating the Origin of Species from 1859 onwards, accepted the correlates between the
Torah recount of Moses and scientific discovery. The quandary for religion however is if the
essence of scientific discovery is accepted then an older earth needs to be considered and
when did “kinds” arise, and when did man acquire an ingrained moral compass, a deep feeling
that a Being controls events, altruism and fairness, a view of good and evil, and a soul.
Conversely, science has to explain why these traits exist in most peoples and could they even
be a result of evolutionary behavior. Science and religion have been far more cooperative in
human understanding and knowledge about scientific enigmas than adversarial. I was taught
about and admired the painting of Adam by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling since
the age of 9-10 years and had a poster of it for years, showing the fingers of God and man
reaching out to each other. As reflected in the painting, the religious enigma gets back to the
issue beyond science of man's soul made in the character and attributes in the image of the
materially undefined Being Spirit God and perfected in likeness from the beginning Light of the
world that reaches out to man, as in the painting.
With the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to pastoral and agrarian, trade and
bartering became more important. This can be seen in the Mapungubwe area and Great
Zimbabwe ruins where it was discovered that gold, other metals, and precious stones could be
sold or battered for more cattle or luxury goods like beads. The central aspect of this
civilization appears to have been that cattle were used to get miners to dig for more gold, and
then the political elite would trade the gold for outside trade goods such as glass beads and
pottery, in turn raising their stature in the community. Glass beads from India, Persia, and the
Middle East, like markers on a trail, found their way to this ancient civilization via the ports
on the Mozambique coast, like Chibuene, “Sofala”, Kilwa and maybe even as early as the
seventh century. The problem with the escalating drive for barter, purchase of goods, and
permanent settlement was that the individual's wishes and desires could no longer be satiated.
Bruce likes to quote Stalin on saying that “unhappiness is the failure of reality to live up to
expectations.” In other words, the greater the expectations of luxury the less likely reality will
meet them, with resulting unhappiness and loss of direction or soul. Or to paraphrase Led
Zeppelin, “there is a lady who is sure all that glitters is gold and she is buying a stairway to
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