The Universe goes round and round, as does the Earth and Life on it! What is the reality behind the ever-changing activities within each of these? The eight essays included in The Reality of Human Life present an overall vision of the diversity of human life. Based upon author Bedrich Hettich's life experiences and observations, this collection offers a modern perception of the invisible existence of God, a Spirit revealed behind the reality of the power existing throughout the Universe right down to planet Earth in it with the diversity of human life on it. These essays address the questions of why and how we got here, what we are supposed to do while we are here, and what happens to us when we die. The topics of these essays relate human activities directly to God, serving as an extension of the essays in Hettich's first collection, The Reality of God in the Universe. Human life creates its own diversity, including the diversity of integration with other life forms that still exist on the Earth. These essays seek to build an understanding of how this diversity relates to the process by which we learn, collectively and individually, to work and live together in harmony referred to as the tuning of human life.

The Reality of Human Life

A Home for Life on God's EarthBy Bedrich V. Hettich

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2012 Bedrich V. Hettich
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4620-8336-7

Contents

Preface..................................................................viiPreface from the Reality of God in the Universe..........................xiDiversity: A Problem for Humankind.......................................1How Humankind Relates to the Reality of God..............................12An Overview of Technology and Science....................................19Miracles.................................................................32Rights, Freedom and Liberty..............................................40Human Values.............................................................51The US Constitution Preamble: "A More Perfect Union".....................57MIT Sesquicentennial: A Nearly Perfect Union.............................71

Chapter One

Diversity: A Problem for Humankind

So the stars we see in the night sky above us are power plants, are they? Yes! They supply the energy that creates the ever-changing conditions for all activities and their results throughout the Universe right down to God's Earth with human life on, in and above it. Those conditions are responsible for the diversity of the results we can perceive associated with each and every activity in it. It is only from science that we are enabled to understand these realities. What do I mean by diversity?

Human life, the late comer to the Earth, creates its own ever-changing conditions for its activities and their results. As part of the activities in the Universe, we are also subject to the ever-changing results that the Earth's activities create. The results of both these activities reveal the diversity of existence that we can perceive in the skies above us as well as in human life on the Earth that surround us.

The Earth is actually a Home for Life. It is clear that Life on Earth is a totally different process from the process that created the Earth. Both processes were created from the energy coming from out of the Universe.

The process that created the Environments for Life on Earth, the Home for Life comes from a star within the Solar system, the Sun that shines on us from the Milky Way galaxy. This was and still is the ongoing process within this "infinitely tiny speck" within the Universe and thus creating from it the necessary and essential conditions for the "birth" of Life to occur.

These condition include: 1) the Earth's distance from the Sun with its time of rotation and its north/south axis set at an angle from the plane of its orbit around the Sun, 2) its daily balance of heat gains from the Universe, especially the Sun that shines on us, and its heat loss into the cosmos of the Universe, 3) its gravitational force balances with the moon and Sun and with their masses all reconciled with each other's orbits.

These ever-changing conditions created the distribution of the substances within the Earth and over time lowered the Earth's temperature to a level necessary and essential for biological life to "blossom". These activities occurred between the time the molten Earth was created and Life could first appear on it. They were the origin for the creation of the Environments for Life on Earth. From within it, do we not see the diversity of the whole process of Life integrated into the unity of its ability to exist? Beyond the Earth, do we not also perceive the unity of the Universe's activities in the night skies above us, along with the diversity they created?

Yes, the creation of Life comes from the resources of the Earth and is sustained to present day, driven only from the power of the Sun that shines on us. The diversity of the results in Life comes from ever-changing necessary and essential natural conditions that created the Environments for Life. Life exists on, in, and within the shell of the Earth and in its waters and atmospheres above it.

All life forms right down to microscopic forms are power plants. The Sun's power gives Life power, as the Force for Life, which becomes an extension of the power in the Universe and sucks up the Earth's resources to create Life. Yes, Life's forms are miniature power plants for as long as the Sun keeps shinning and the resources necessary and essential for Life continue to be available to be sucked up by Life from the Earth. How about that for the origins of the diversity we perceive in all of Life's activities and the ever-changing conditions that these activities create on, in and above the Earth?

The conditions that made Life possible on Earth came 5 billion years after the Sun and its solar system were formed. The Earth became Home for Life starting 3.8 billion years ago in the waters of the Earth. Check with the geologists and paleontologists.

We perceive the diversity of Life in our Earthly Home every moment, every day and every year of our lives from on, in and above its shell. Life superimposes the results of its activities onto the Earth, which in today's human world sometimes even goes beyond the Environments for Life - our space programs for example.

Humankind's ability to set conditions to control its own activities creates its own diversity. This is at the heart of humankind's problems with respect to how we get along with each other and how we adapt to the environment within the Environments for Life. How then can we solve our problems? Like any problem, we need to understand the conditions that create them, a scientific approach - the object of this essay

We also need to realize that Life's propagation is a natural process. The Earth is just the resource for the embodiment of Life. Life continues to exist only from out of "Seeds" that each and every "generation" of Life creates from each and every form in Life, except microorganisms that recreate themselves without seeds. Life's activities are an innate process. Just look at the diversity of all their different attributes of forms and their behavior, as well as their different origins within the Environments for Life over the face of the Earth ever since Life came into existence.

Not all life forms have independence to control the conditions needed for them to remain stable and viable within any environment. Nonetheless there are many that can create conditions that allow them to control how they adapt to the environments in which each exists.

Humankind, however, is a uniquely "civilized", separating itself from all other life forms. We control the conditions over the activities we create to meet our needs and desires, and for how we get along with one another. This brings into light the questions: What do we mean civilized? What is its content? How far advanced are we from our primitive state of being? How does this affect the value we place on our humanness? How does human diversity affect this process?

Science, created from within the human mind, has given us the ability to understand much of the technology that drives the processes of the Earth as well as the separate processes of Life within its Environments for Life. There are also many other forms of Life that are able to make their own homes.

Over the history of human life, technology gave us the ability to become civilized. Science is the late comer for our ability to understand the technology for how we and all other life forms exist and for how we manage to adapt individually and collectively to its environments within...