When I organized Background Voices in
November of 2006 as a website on which to
present an intuitive understanding of the
Modern Universe, I never thought I would have
written the novel "Faces".
At that time, I took a Negative approach. I
believed that our designation as a people who
lived as a background voice to a vast,
indifferent universe had long ago become
intolerable to the human imagination. I
sometimes felt that our harsh contemporary
culture resulted from our sense of the
meaninglessness of Process itself.
Although I made no claim to understanding all
the "billions of stars", or the parameters of
telescopes or the intricacies of outer space, I
felt that recent discoveries altered the self
image of all mankind for the worse.
We no longer believed that the Scriptures said
the same things that scientists told us, and we
did not care too much if we ever figured all that
out. We were becoming a skeptical, inhuman
species.
But since then, I changed.
I began to realize that we were connected to a
"fine tuned" universe. Voices and sometimes
music spoke to us as we pondered the stars.
Outer space reached into the inner recesses of
our self and touched us as if we were part of
something much bigger than our brief lives on
this Earth.
13.5 billion years ago, the Big Bang broke the
silence of the void, and we have just begun to
understand it in our time. At the end of the
novel, you can discover what I learned
Yes, the inner reaches of outer space
matters to everyone, especially now to our
emerging generations. We dare not close
the door on the possibility of an affinity
with our Creator.
This fine tuned universe is ours.
Something to Ponder:
The precision (of the Universe) is as if one could throw a
dart across the entire universe and hit a bullseye one
millimeter in diameter on the other side.
Michael Turner, University of Chicago
November of 2006 as a website on which to
present an intuitive understanding of the
Modern Universe, I never thought I would have
written the novel "Faces".
At that time, I took a Negative approach. I
believed that our designation as a people who
lived as a background voice to a vast,
indifferent universe had long ago become
intolerable to the human imagination. I
sometimes felt that our harsh contemporary
culture resulted from our sense of the
meaninglessness of Process itself.
Although I made no claim to understanding all
the "billions of stars", or the parameters of
telescopes or the intricacies of outer space, I
felt that recent discoveries altered the self
image of all mankind for the worse.
We no longer believed that the Scriptures said
the same things that scientists told us, and we
did not care too much if we ever figured all that
out. We were becoming a skeptical, inhuman
species.
But since then, I changed.
I began to realize that we were connected to a
"fine tuned" universe. Voices and sometimes
music spoke to us as we pondered the stars.
Outer space reached into the inner recesses of
our self and touched us as if we were part of
something much bigger than our brief lives on
this Earth.
13.5 billion years ago, the Big Bang broke the
silence of the void, and we have just begun to
understand it in our time. At the end of the
novel, you can discover what I learned
Yes, the inner reaches of outer space
matters to everyone, especially now to our
emerging generations. We dare not close
the door on the possibility of an affinity
with our Creator.
This fine tuned universe is ours.
Something to Ponder:
The precision (of the Universe) is as if one could throw a
dart across the entire universe and hit a bullseye one
millimeter in diameter on the other side.
Michael Turner, University of Chicago
The Fine Tuned Universe
Background Voices
Creative Writings on Poetry and Science
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