Ponderings 2 : “The kingdom belongs to the child”  This morning
I pondered how the universe came to exist.  “Chaos is the child
playing chess.” Image linked from chessvibes.com  It has
occupied the minds of the religious, philosopher and the
scientist.  It has been the source of many arguments.  How did
the universe come to exist? I am a philosopher that uses
inductive reasoning incorporating knowledge that can be observed
and demonstrated for my ultimate conclusions.  Why I like
Heraclitus, Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci is we are all
empiricists in outlook.  Here follows a mixture of Heraclitus
and my observations in the form of an obscure riddle, which I
will then explain in order to answer the question of how the
universe came to exist.  “Chaos is nothing, for it is formless
and unknown.  Chaos is the child playing chess, from the child’s
play becomes the kingdom; the formless is formed and the unknown
is known.  The kingdom belongs to the child.”  The scientist and
the religious agree that before this u