Daily Meditation: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Life - we do not know all the ways in which nature can create it

09/22/2026

It is not so much in their study of phenomena that scientists go wrong, but in their conclusions. On the basis of just one point, they all too often make assertions about every other aspect of life. For, although their conclusions may be correct in some cases, they are not necessarily so in all cases. There are still a great many scientists who maintain that there is no form of life on other planets or in other regions of space, simply because water and certain other elements that make life possible on earth are not present. As if we knew all the ways in which nature could possibly create life! Nature is a great deal more intelligent than all our scholars, chemists, biologists and astrophysicists combined. Above all, nature has far more imagination than they have. It has created life in places and conditions that they could never have thought possible. Besides, who can say what life really is? We know what matter is and the elements of which it is composed, but what life actually is will remain a mystery for a long time to come.