Questions of all time

Some of the basic questions that the human mind starts worrying about from the moment of his gaining consciousness are the questions about his surroundings and about his existence. The very first question of ‘what’ he perceives around him is answered by his sensory organs, but the moment it is answered, it poses a number of many other questions. These questions are the questions of ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘why’ of the existence of what that is perceived. The questions of how and when can be solved through the various sciences, social, physical and life. The question of ‘when’ it came into existence was answered by the social sciences of geography, history, geology, archaeology, anthropology and so on and the question of ‘how’ it did by the physical and the life sciences. Though even these questions have not been answered completely or in full certainty for new theories have continuously altered or even replaced or overruled the preceding ones, we can safely assume that yes, they have at least some answer to them. But the greatest question of all times has always been ‘why’ it came into existence. This question of ‘why’ has deluded man for ages, from the prehistoric times to the modern world. Why the universe was created and why life was created are the two sides of the same coin, because there couldn’t be life without universe and what purpose of having a universe when there is no life to perceive its presence. So this is the question that religion sought to answer. Religion taught us of an unseen power that is the creator, the sustainer and the destroyer. The power, that is known as the God. So to understand the reason behind creation is to know the mind of the Creator. But knowing the mind of God posed another dilemma. How to understand the thoughts of that what cannot be perceived. For religion taught us that God cannot be perceived by our senses. So is it just useless wanderings of the human intellect. To seek the unknown is more than a herculean task. But then, if there is a question, there must be an answer to it. But what exactly is the answer? Physics has already shown that for changing the state of anything, there must be external force acting on it. It also proved that left on its own, an existing matter can only move towards chaos and never can order be created out of chaos. For creating order, there must be an external force creating it. While there are direct evidences of evolution, there has never been a perfect theory explaining it and again the question comes forth, but why. While religion answers this ‘why’, it comes at loggerheads with science. There are some who try to create a compromise between the two, the majority tends to accept one and reject the other, something that has led to many wars in the history of mankind. And so, we can safely say that this question of ‘why’ has left the human mind baffled since time immemorial and will continue to challenge him, till the time he comes face to face with his creator, the power behind all that is there. For nobody can explain the ‘why’ except the one who did it.