There exists a wonderful collaboration that we call life. Life is in contrast to the natural laws we observe where things tend to chaos and break down into simple forms. Molecules are gathered together somehow to make predetermined forms with programmed functions. It is fascinating to study every aspect of this orchestration and to some, it begs questions about the personality of the orchestrator.

Inside the human mind ideals exist such as love, honor and respect. These ideals cannot really be described using mere words. We have all this inner creativity that cannot be fully described with music or art. We can admire beauty. This mind doesn’t comprehend endings and finality but strains for the eternal version of everything it sees.

After the initial admiration of life, another big question comes into our minds. Why does it only last for a short time? Death and corruption are equally mysterious to us. The human mind is conflicted about such things, making humans unique among all other living beings. Why start this thing called life only to have it submit to natural laws again?

Ultimate questions belong to a certain area of philosophy where it might blend into the study of religion with the possibility of an ultimate being. It makes sense from a creative standpoint. Natural science studies the interaction of energy and material. When they attempt to explain ultimates, their speculations come by reference of this natural world and the universal laws that exist. But it is hard to describe destiny, romance and beauty using molecules and electrons.

Every age has its dreamers and those who articulate new ideas. Our rational mind is a gift that helps us organize possibilities. Our philosophies guide us into optimism, cynicism or somewhere in between. These philosophies also make it possible for us to see truth and understand the world around us. Though we might not consider our thoughts very deep, our outlook on life will still depend on our philosophies. The same goes for a society. I grew up listening to philosophers in bars, at school and religious institutions and now enjoy reading more then ever. Every source makes points that are nonsense and some that have value. Although contentious at times, asking questions and sorting things out is the best way to understand our inner thought processes and to have the best society.

Basic questions concerning origins and destinations permeate philosophical writings I have read recently. Lets look at what can be observed. What is natural to the earth is decay. When we look at energy, it always dissipates and spreads out. Concerning mixtures, they do the same with complex things dissolving into a simple forms. Life is the most unnatural thing we can observe.

Somehow with life, molecules are ordered to form amino acids. They in turn become DNA structures that take over command by their patterns and make forms such as plants or people. The philosophical question is where did the idea for each form come from? Certainly a non-thinking thing called chance couldn’t come up with all the different forms of life we see and order all the processes involved to work properly. And this is the key word… think. What unnatural thing could have thought all this up?

Since this thing would obviously be superior to us in thought, we would want to call it a being. It makes sense that intelligent people gave numerous names and descriptions of this being throughout history. It was when philosophers started separating the speculations about this being from actual science and political reasoning that advances in could be achieved. Rather than debating the merits of their beings, societies began debating the merits of their own ideas.