Dream From The Fathers: Science Vision and Inheritance
Dream From The Fathers: The Vision and Inheritance of Science
Generations of humans come and go, but the world remains. Their memorials are the inherited cumulative imprints of knowledge and artifacts that serve the platforms for the reigning age to see yet, the future. Vision – a picture of the future has the potency to generate the needed momentum to rally resources and people, and strategically fashion an encompassing alleyway to its attainment. It updates the versions of our ecosystems.
There are those whose task is to see and write the vision, yet, there are those born to read the vision and run with it.* There are some people who just grasp a glimpse of what to do, where to go but do not make it to the end – abandon or uncompleted dream. Yet, there are those who go all the way to accomplish their goals and become crowned and celebrated here on earth – they see, write and run with the vision. Another set of people got to figure out a way of bringing to a logical conclusion that which perhaps their predecessors started. Abraham - the father of faith for instance belong to this group. The dream and journey to Canaan was actually his father’s [Terah] initiative.** To this, Thomas Edison – inventor of the incandescent light bulb who is also reputed as Americas foremost inventor with 1,093 patents to his name, said; “I start where the last man left off.” This brings to null the 10th way to simplify one’s life: “Refuse to Start What You Cannot Finish” contained in the book: 100 Ways to Simplify your Life by Bestselling Author Joyce Meyer. You have to perhaps sojourn or live in the Wilderness to only dare what you have to finish in order not to leave anything behind: “gather only what is enough, what you can finish for the day.”s In this case, think nothing of and leave nothing for the future. Or, like the woman of Zarephath, “I have but a handful, a little to dress for me and my son, that we may eat and die.ss” The Scripture says “a good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children.”sss This cannot just be limited to properties and money which children of these days will sell off, and lavish the money on wasteful spending. Dream is the best gift anyone can leave to drive a future generation. In other word, the best inheritance to leave behind for this child is not money, not wealth, and it may surprise you that you do not even have to leave him with the inheritance of how to fish. Leave for this child a dream and he will find his way to attain it and attract riches and honor as additions. We have to live beyond the parenthesis of our short lives here on earth – dream big so as to leave some future behind.
The world thrives on initiatives, concepts and projects – innovations of our generation and those left behind by our predecessors. Vision is what you have seen for even the generations to come after you. Barack Obama, before he even thought of contesting the US presidential election by which he went on to become the first African American President of the United States of America, wrote his first (best seller) book in 1995 – with the title: “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” This his “father” is an array including Martin Luther King, Jr. - the hero of American civil right movement noted for his “I Have A Dream” speech delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. You could see the word ‘inheritance’ as used in the title of the book by Mr. Obama. Obama, whom in his bid for American presidency, paid an historical record bill, climbed over an historical hill in the American politics, and was scolded with a near antiquity adult-martial gain, all the way to the Whitehouse, was gracefully sustained and helped in part, I believe, by the historic inspiration and sacrifice of the heroes past.
Father Abraham was the first to take on the dream of his father – Terah left the dream to go to Canaan for Abraham. King David left the dream to build God’s temple – an edifice for the worship of Jehovah Energy for his son Solomon. Albert Einstein left a dream of the theory of everything to many theoretical physicists of this era. Michio Kaku, a descendant of Albert Einstein by profession, would make such a strong and compelling testimony about inherited dreams when he says in his book The Physics of Impossibility of how he was inspired into the work of unifying the laws of physics to a single theory (String theory) – the impossible of Einstein’s time (that Albert Einstein left behind):
“I was just a child the day when Albert Einstein died, but I remember people talking about his life, and death, in hushed tones. The next day I saw in the newspapers a picture of his desk, with the unfinished work. I asked myself, What could be so important that the greatest scientist of our time could not finish it? The article claimed that Einstein had an impossible dream, a problem so difficult that it was not possible for mortal to find it. It took me years to find out what that manuscript was about: a grand, unifying “theory of everything.” His dream – which consumed the last three decades of his life - helped me to focus my own imagination. I wanted, in some small way, to be part of the effort to complete Einstein’s work, to unify the laws of physics into a single theory.”
In his bid to shine his search light and convince his readers as to why science of the Dark Age, however shady, should be researched and be traced to Islam, Ehsan Masood in his book Science & Islam: A History offers an interesting and true supply chain of science which indeed
applies to all spheres of life:
“Advances in our understanding of the natural world happen when scientists absorb the latest knowledge in fields such as physics or biology, and then modify or improve it. They work rather like runners in a relay race, passing the baton of learning from one scientist to the next. Modern science, regarded as a hallmark of Western civilization, achieved its place through the passing of many successive batons, which were handed to the scientists of Europe from the world’s non Western cultures.”
And because man did not eat the fruit of the tree of (eternal) life, many do not live as long as their long term plans and dream - which often stretch beyond our target timelines (following in part, the unsteady universe). Hence, vision is and has to be handed down to successive generations. Javier ‘Chicharo’ Hernandez who quit his job as manager of the reserve side of one of Mexico's biggest and most storied clubs - Chivas in order to watch his son play in the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, for instance, claimed his stunning decision was helped by once-in-a-lifetime experiences. In his words, “one is not eternal.” Javier went on to conclude that we are here but in passing: "Institutions remain for lives and one doesn’t. Moments from your life is what makes you take that decision. I understand the institution and that no one is above it, but one is also just here in passing."
The race with vision, in some part does not lie in how early one finishes, unlike it is the case in most athletic sports. It is, however, the serenely to transcend the hurdles, that filters only the tough and rigidly focused fellows to the honor platforms of life bargains. A man’s easiest path to fame is in being firm at his enterprise. In other word, if you are firm at your enterprise, you will likely become famous in it. In my opinion, scientists are maximizing the brain God gave us. The journey would not be this colorful and intriguing had it been without the historical resistances science has faced and surmounted – science and religious divides, science and cultural divides, science and the moral law, amongst others. But doing anything including living outside the vacuum is impossible without resistance. We are ‘in this world’ – the material world, even though we have a spiritual part of us. What is required therefore is to pull the resistive particles to the behind and keep accelerating toward the goals of our enterprises as in aerodynamics, knowing that motion is only possible with friction.
In the 21st century, world leaders are responding to global tensions arising from economic competition, regional clashes of enlightenment with traditions, struggle for energy and other strategic resources and global environmental issues. Issues related to security, the environment, and energy resources are also being confronted. These new international challenges will require continued scientific advances to tackle cost effectively.8 Scientific dreamers have to be funded to not only see, but be able to write and run their visions to tackle these challenges. With the completion of the genome projects, the pinnacle of science now revolves around life demystification. God does not place any limit to humans’ dreams and visions as far as such dreams and visions are for good. God has said that there is nothing man would imagine to do that will be restraint from him. So it is left for us to look into our conscience and decide what is morally right before going ahead to do it.
“The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you …” Genesis 13:14-15
Vision of Science: Michio sees a future of science that seems to be beyond mere materialism - a spiritual or science of the spirits when he begins his Physics of the Impossible thus,
“One day, would it be possible to walk through walls? To build starships that can travel faster than the speed of light? To read other people’s minds? To be invisible? To move objects with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?”
What science fiction writers do is give dreams to scientists, engineers, developers and technologists; and investment opportunities to the merchants. They have brought us this far. And now, Michio’s and indeed science vision of the future is entirely spiritual in the language in which it is expressed. The implication of this is that we should expect our quest for knowledge and technology innovations to take us to spirituality even without the vehicle of religion.
This article is an extract from Mortal Gods: The Stars and The Laboratory. http://www.amazon.ca/Mortal-Gods-Ubong-Afiaowo-Ambrose/dp/1462612393
* Habakkuk 2:2: “And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
** Genesis 11:31-32: “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Urof the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”
s Exodus 16:19: “And Moses said, Let no man leave of it [manna] till the morning.”
ss 1Kings 17:12: “And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat, and die.”
sss Proverbs 13:22: “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinners is laid up for the just.”
References:
1] Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible – A Scientific Exploration Into The World Of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, And Time Travel, Doubleday Publishing Group – Random House, Inc, New York 2008.
2] George Gamow, The Creation Of The Universe, Dover Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., 2004.
3]Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Three Rivers Press, New York, 1995
4] Richard Alleyne, Scientist Craig Venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god', 20 May 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7745868/Scientist-Craig-Venter-creates-life-for-first-time-in-laboratory-sparking-debate-about-playing-god.html
5] Silverberg, Robert, ed. (1970), The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964, Tom Doherty Associates
6] H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes, Published by Unknown in 1899.
7] Robert Heinlein, The Roads Must Roll, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940.
8] Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, Solid State Sciences Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy. (1997) The Physics of Materials: How Science Improves
Our Lives. National Research Council.
Generations of humans come and go, but the world remains. Their memorials are the inherited cumulative imprints of knowledge and artifacts that serve the platforms for the reigning age to see yet, the future. Vision – a picture of the future has the potency to generate the needed momentum to rally resources and people, and strategically fashion an encompassing alleyway to its attainment. It updates the versions of our ecosystems.
There are those whose task is to see and write the vision, yet, there are those born to read the vision and run with it.* There are some people who just grasp a glimpse of what to do, where to go but do not make it to the end – abandon or uncompleted dream. Yet, there are those who go all the way to accomplish their goals and become crowned and celebrated here on earth – they see, write and run with the vision. Another set of people got to figure out a way of bringing to a logical conclusion that which perhaps their predecessors started. Abraham - the father of faith for instance belong to this group. The dream and journey to Canaan was actually his father’s [Terah] initiative.** To this, Thomas Edison – inventor of the incandescent light bulb who is also reputed as Americas foremost inventor with 1,093 patents to his name, said; “I start where the last man left off.” This brings to null the 10th way to simplify one’s life: “Refuse to Start What You Cannot Finish” contained in the book: 100 Ways to Simplify your Life by Bestselling Author Joyce Meyer. You have to perhaps sojourn or live in the Wilderness to only dare what you have to finish in order not to leave anything behind: “gather only what is enough, what you can finish for the day.”s In this case, think nothing of and leave nothing for the future. Or, like the woman of Zarephath, “I have but a handful, a little to dress for me and my son, that we may eat and die.ss” The Scripture says “a good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children.”sss This cannot just be limited to properties and money which children of these days will sell off, and lavish the money on wasteful spending. Dream is the best gift anyone can leave to drive a future generation. In other word, the best inheritance to leave behind for this child is not money, not wealth, and it may surprise you that you do not even have to leave him with the inheritance of how to fish. Leave for this child a dream and he will find his way to attain it and attract riches and honor as additions. We have to live beyond the parenthesis of our short lives here on earth – dream big so as to leave some future behind.
The world thrives on initiatives, concepts and projects – innovations of our generation and those left behind by our predecessors. Vision is what you have seen for even the generations to come after you. Barack Obama, before he even thought of contesting the US presidential election by which he went on to become the first African American President of the United States of America, wrote his first (best seller) book in 1995 – with the title: “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” This his “father” is an array including Martin Luther King, Jr. - the hero of American civil right movement noted for his “I Have A Dream” speech delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. You could see the word ‘inheritance’ as used in the title of the book by Mr. Obama. Obama, whom in his bid for American presidency, paid an historical record bill, climbed over an historical hill in the American politics, and was scolded with a near antiquity adult-martial gain, all the way to the Whitehouse, was gracefully sustained and helped in part, I believe, by the historic inspiration and sacrifice of the heroes past.
Father Abraham was the first to take on the dream of his father – Terah left the dream to go to Canaan for Abraham. King David left the dream to build God’s temple – an edifice for the worship of Jehovah Energy for his son Solomon. Albert Einstein left a dream of the theory of everything to many theoretical physicists of this era. Michio Kaku, a descendant of Albert Einstein by profession, would make such a strong and compelling testimony about inherited dreams when he says in his book The Physics of Impossibility of how he was inspired into the work of unifying the laws of physics to a single theory (String theory) – the impossible of Einstein’s time (that Albert Einstein left behind):
“I was just a child the day when Albert Einstein died, but I remember people talking about his life, and death, in hushed tones. The next day I saw in the newspapers a picture of his desk, with the unfinished work. I asked myself, What could be so important that the greatest scientist of our time could not finish it? The article claimed that Einstein had an impossible dream, a problem so difficult that it was not possible for mortal to find it. It took me years to find out what that manuscript was about: a grand, unifying “theory of everything.” His dream – which consumed the last three decades of his life - helped me to focus my own imagination. I wanted, in some small way, to be part of the effort to complete Einstein’s work, to unify the laws of physics into a single theory.”
In his bid to shine his search light and convince his readers as to why science of the Dark Age, however shady, should be researched and be traced to Islam, Ehsan Masood in his book Science & Islam: A History offers an interesting and true supply chain of science which indeed
applies to all spheres of life:
“Advances in our understanding of the natural world happen when scientists absorb the latest knowledge in fields such as physics or biology, and then modify or improve it. They work rather like runners in a relay race, passing the baton of learning from one scientist to the next. Modern science, regarded as a hallmark of Western civilization, achieved its place through the passing of many successive batons, which were handed to the scientists of Europe from the world’s non Western cultures.”
And because man did not eat the fruit of the tree of (eternal) life, many do not live as long as their long term plans and dream - which often stretch beyond our target timelines (following in part, the unsteady universe). Hence, vision is and has to be handed down to successive generations. Javier ‘Chicharo’ Hernandez who quit his job as manager of the reserve side of one of Mexico's biggest and most storied clubs - Chivas in order to watch his son play in the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, for instance, claimed his stunning decision was helped by once-in-a-lifetime experiences. In his words, “one is not eternal.” Javier went on to conclude that we are here but in passing: "Institutions remain for lives and one doesn’t. Moments from your life is what makes you take that decision. I understand the institution and that no one is above it, but one is also just here in passing."
The race with vision, in some part does not lie in how early one finishes, unlike it is the case in most athletic sports. It is, however, the serenely to transcend the hurdles, that filters only the tough and rigidly focused fellows to the honor platforms of life bargains. A man’s easiest path to fame is in being firm at his enterprise. In other word, if you are firm at your enterprise, you will likely become famous in it. In my opinion, scientists are maximizing the brain God gave us. The journey would not be this colorful and intriguing had it been without the historical resistances science has faced and surmounted – science and religious divides, science and cultural divides, science and the moral law, amongst others. But doing anything including living outside the vacuum is impossible without resistance. We are ‘in this world’ – the material world, even though we have a spiritual part of us. What is required therefore is to pull the resistive particles to the behind and keep accelerating toward the goals of our enterprises as in aerodynamics, knowing that motion is only possible with friction.
In the 21st century, world leaders are responding to global tensions arising from economic competition, regional clashes of enlightenment with traditions, struggle for energy and other strategic resources and global environmental issues. Issues related to security, the environment, and energy resources are also being confronted. These new international challenges will require continued scientific advances to tackle cost effectively.8 Scientific dreamers have to be funded to not only see, but be able to write and run their visions to tackle these challenges. With the completion of the genome projects, the pinnacle of science now revolves around life demystification. God does not place any limit to humans’ dreams and visions as far as such dreams and visions are for good. God has said that there is nothing man would imagine to do that will be restraint from him. So it is left for us to look into our conscience and decide what is morally right before going ahead to do it.
“The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you …” Genesis 13:14-15
Vision of Science: Michio sees a future of science that seems to be beyond mere materialism - a spiritual or science of the spirits when he begins his Physics of the Impossible thus,
“One day, would it be possible to walk through walls? To build starships that can travel faster than the speed of light? To read other people’s minds? To be invisible? To move objects with the power of our minds? To transport our bodies instantly through outer space?”
What science fiction writers do is give dreams to scientists, engineers, developers and technologists; and investment opportunities to the merchants. They have brought us this far. And now, Michio’s and indeed science vision of the future is entirely spiritual in the language in which it is expressed. The implication of this is that we should expect our quest for knowledge and technology innovations to take us to spirituality even without the vehicle of religion.
This article is an extract from Mortal Gods: The Stars and The Laboratory. http://www.amazon.ca/Mortal-Gods-Ubong-Afiaowo-Ambrose/dp/1462612393
* Habakkuk 2:2: “And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
** Genesis 11:31-32: “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Urof the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”
s Exodus 16:19: “And Moses said, Let no man leave of it [manna] till the morning.”
ss 1Kings 17:12: “And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat, and die.”
sss Proverbs 13:22: “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinners is laid up for the just.”
References:
1] Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible – A Scientific Exploration Into The World Of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, And Time Travel, Doubleday Publishing Group – Random House, Inc, New York 2008.
2] George Gamow, The Creation Of The Universe, Dover Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., 2004.
3]Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Three Rivers Press, New York, 1995
4] Richard Alleyne, Scientist Craig Venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god', 20 May 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7745868/Scientist-Craig-Venter-creates-life-for-first-time-in-laboratory-sparking-debate-about-playing-god.html
5] Silverberg, Robert, ed. (1970), The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964, Tom Doherty Associates
6] H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes, Published by Unknown in 1899.
7] Robert Heinlein, The Roads Must Roll, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940.
8] Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, Solid State Sciences Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy. (1997) The Physics of Materials: How Science Improves
Our Lives. National Research Council.
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