Formation of Things.

I love contemplating about how things are thought about, especially when I see well worn arguments that seem to ignore obvious flaws in their premise. Take the concept of everything that exists or existed is due to a previous action. This suggestion is potentially fine until some people claim there must be a self-perpetuated action to start with or from which to begin. Then, there are the details that are needed to enhance or formulate that accepted idea, for argument's sake, when and where did that self-perpetuated action take place? It could be ten, one hundred or more actions before a specific event. It might be far more constructive to simply state that actions have consequences, however to have a predetermined goal, it would need an agent.

Often people will try to set out properties necessary for an agent that would have intention. However they ignore actions that have no intention but are pivotal to change. What are these pivotal actions without intention? The very substance of all material has come about after unrelated actions, such as huge stars exploding releasing more dense material for the eventual formation of more stars or planets and maybe life. I should point out that making a copy of the universe in theory does not in actual fact do anything to explain why the universe creation is continuous. It only shows how a copy might be made but that does nothing to explain how the original came about.

Frequently the idea for all things to exist is prefaced by the word cause. For me, this is a flaw in the premise because it implies an intention. However things can happen without any intention. One may ask which came first, actions with intention or those without? I like to use the universe and life to illustrate my understanding of events. The universe is in a perpetual mode of creating new stars and planets without any specific goal. At the same time on Earth life conforms to evolutionary change, with in my opinion no specific creature, as its ideal. This is possibly because all creatures are undergoing evolutionary change and are part of the process of evolution.

There is one more idea that fascinates me when thinking about the formation of things. On Earth we are surrounded by objects that have come from intentional actions. This may give an unbalanced view of creation. It is necessary to be aware that actions without intention play a crucial part of how things are. Such as how the Moon came to be and is affecting the tides and slowing down the spin of the Earth. Not only that, the seasonal variation on earth is caused by the offset angle of the Earth. This too could have been caused by the initial collision of an object from space. Oxygen breathing life has flourished due to the actions of Cyanobacteria that produce Oxygen as a waste product. Single celled life evolved into multi-celled organisms I would argue, not because of intention but the result of surviving.

It is so tempting to look at things that exist as if they have always been the way they are. However it only takes a little bit of investigating to realise nothing is fixed or permanent. Six billion years ago our Solar System did not exist and six billion years into the future the solar system will be unrecognisable.