The Science of God: The Business of Religion

By Michael Hughes

This book is a culmination of life experiences, scientific facts, and observations that raise critical questions and dispel the notion that you must choose between creation and evolution as to how and why we are here on this earth. Both the planet we inhabit and the human conditions that exist are changing in ways that leave many of us wondering how long before disaster strikes. There are critical questions that must be answered correctly and solutions that must be developed and executed to save the planet we live on, its inhabitants, and ourselves as individuals. Unless you are an underage thinker or you would rather not think about it, you have already realized that our world is in trouble, and none of us is getting out of here alive.

This is a book of common sense, facts, and hope for today and the future. Written with a desire to share scientific truths and personal perspectives that most never ponder. Truths and perspectives that just might totally transform the way you see life, the world, and your personal journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647018962

Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes grew up in a small town in Northern Ireland. A graduate of Oxford, he also trained in theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris. He has worked for many years as an actor under the professional name Michael Colgan, and he also teaches creative writing. He lives in London with his wife, the acclaimed historian Tiffany Watt Smith, and their two children. His first novel, The Countenance Divine, was published by John Murray/Hachette UK in 2016.

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The Science of God

The Business of Religion

Michael Hughes

Copyright © 2020 Michael Hughes

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2020

ISBN 978-1-64701-895-5 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64701-896-2 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Perfect Balance

Wherever you are sitting or standing at this moment, the scientific calculation of the speed you are traveling is just under 585,000 miles per hour. Let’s look at how it’s calculated.

At the equator, the earth is roughly 24,080 miles in circumference. Each day, the inhabitants of equatorial locations, such as Ecuador and Indonesia, see the sunrise on their eastern horizon at nearly the same time every day in a given season. Being each day contains exactly twenty-four hours, those folks are moving at 1,003 miles per hour as the earth rotates on its axis. That’s a simple math equation of 24,080 miles divided by twenty-four hours equals 1,003.33 miles traveled each hour.

Now add to that the orbit speed at which the earth travels around the sun once each year. So if science is assumed accurate and we are ninety-three million miles from the sun, the diameter of the distance that the earth has to travel each year is 2 × 3.14 × the radius (93,000,000) or 584,000,000. That’s FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR MILLION miles that we will travel each year without taking a single step.

The sum of this simple equation is about 66,000 miles per hour plus the rotation speed at which the earth is spinning. I live in Venice, Florida, so the rotation speed here is about 808 miles per hour.

The point is, we’re moving at roughly 67,000 miles per hour every second or our lives, every day, week, month, or year. On a nearly round planet, 70 percent of which is covered with water held in an exacting position, so remarkably precise that we would freeze or fry if our amazing planet wobbles even one-thousandth of a percent. The pistons in a Jaguar or Mercedes aren’t held to that standard.

I was watching the Discovery Channel a few years ago, and a scientist and his camera crew had discovered a glacier with an enormous field of green plant life frozen inside.

As they carefully scraped away the ice, these plants, which were just an inch or so apart stood tall and proud. They looked like young bean sprouts with two leaves, each right at the top about the size of your thumbprint. The scientist and his colleagues were amazed and perplexed that these plants, which were the moisture makeup of a bean sprout, were standing at all, let alone still tall and proud as if they were basking in the sun. How could it be? What could have caused these plants, which were tropical in nature to be frozen almost instantly.

It was suggested that maybe an earthquake or meteor strike caused a sudden shift in the earth’s crust and temperature. But the fact is we really can’t understand it. Earthquakes happen, mountains are pushed up from the sea, meteor and asteroid fields are traveling through space at incredible speeds 24/7 and so are we. One of the greatest wonders is that we haven’t been hit again for the past five or six thousand years by one, big enough to cause catastrophic damage.

Movies are made about such a pending disaster, but there’s usually a superhero that puts a nuke in it, just in time to lessen the damage. Maybe a few coastal states are washed away, but life otherwise goes on, and the damage is repaired.

Too bad, the cavemen didn’t have the technology to avert the Ice Age. My grandkids could have a pet dinosaur for crying out loud. And when they take it for a walk, someone would have to follow it with a wheel barrel and snow shovel instead of a nice little plastic bag.

Back to earth.

Constant Maintenance

Relative to the speed we’re traveling, balance and distance are extremely important. Allow me to illustrate by example.

If I put a two-ounce weight on the wheel of