With all of our knowledge, there are some things we stuff in the drawer for another day labeled “unknowable.” We don’t waste time on it, because we don’t know where to start. Perhaps we are not equipped to look for an answer. I appeal here not to John Doe, but to the scientists, who make it their business to understand our world.

The question is, how do we know how to make human flesh and blood out of corn beef and cabbage? How does a bee know how to make honey from the nectar of blossoms, or how does it know where or how to get the nectar in the first place? How does a chicken know how to take a few kernels of corn, and make it into chicken feathers? To go a step further, how does the cherry tree know how to blossom in spring and to turn the blossoms to cherries? When a seed drops to the ground, how do some of its tendrils know to push into the ground to seek anchor, water and nutrients, while others rise upward to seek the sun and air?

I am not asking for the process, but how do we, the bee, the chicken or even the cherry tree, or the seed, manage the necessities to accomplish these tasks? How did we get the know-how necessary for our various individual life processes? The know-how of life seems beyond the knowledge of the living.

The obvious answer is that all life has an inner intelligence, which handles these unknown problems for it. These matters deal with the unconscious, inborn control of the functions of all living things. They are necessities of our existence, over which we have no conscious control.

Whether we look to the sky, awestruck by the stars, and the infinity of the heavens, or at the great variations of life, animal and vegetable on earth including ourselves, and the natural cooperation in an orchestration of mutuality in support of life, we sooner or later must come to realize that there is more at work here than we can easily comprehend. It is more than the evolution of an accidental bug that crawled out from a bed of slime. The display and cooperation of various intelligences points to a common purpose and organization, of which only a purposeful intelligence can be capable.

It reflects poorly on us that as our understanding of our physical world has progressed to such great heights, our understanding of ourselves has not kept pace. We still tend to have more important things to consider, like the Super Bowl and the Oscars, than to get too worried about the source or meaning of life. Isn’t it becoming more and more evident that life, which goes from microbes, to mosquitoes, to elephants, to humans, and the great variety of other life functions, can only be explained by a super intelligence? Such a purposeful creation could not exist without a cause. Only intelligence can have a meaningful purpose.

Our churches don’t seem to realize that the biggest doubt of the agnostics or atheists is that its stories from an ancient world seem impossible. To a modern person, educated in the latest sciences, many of these stories are simply unbelievable. Considering what we know today, the modern world exhibits more evidence than ever for the presence of a purposeful intelligence behind everything. Further progress can bring a resurgence of a belief in God such as the world has never seen. It could be a resurrection for all of humanity.

One of these days some scientist is going to prove, beyond doubt, that intelligence exists beyond the human brain. Have they ever given credit to any other source? The proof has only to be clearly explained. Our minds have been infused with its potential. The inevitable conclusion being that we have our existence thanks to an intelligent, loving, productive, God. You may prefer to ignore that, as it may conflict with what you desire, but intelligence does exist beyond the human brain! May God bless America.

Richard Westlund is a Collins resident. Send comments to editorial@observertoday.com