The Sufi Scientist

In the past few days, whenever I think or hear about the idea of god, I cannot help but think that the people who established the idea really did mean to use it as a metaphor for the universe. It is omnipresent, for we are the universe. Every molecule in our body can be traced back to the stars that once gave birth to these planets. Everything around us, man-made or natural, is a product of the universe. And we are all connected. It is in us, around us in every protein interaction in our body making life happen. In every DNA molecule that gets replicated. In every zygote that becomes an embryo and every embryo that becomes a person. It is the very basis of life. We are in the universe, and the universe is in us. This is much more elegantly said by Neil deGrasse Tyson.  We are one because we are all, the universe. Alif, what existed when nothing existed, and that which will exist when nothing will exist. We came from that and will go back to that eventually. In a sense, ...