Adam and Eve came forth from the hands of the Creator as magnificent specimens of humanity. Their height was much greater than that of people today; they lived in perfect health and beauty (PP 45). They were instructed by angels and by God Himself, and their intellectual power was but little lower than the angels (COL. 310). "The laws and operations of nature which have engaged men's study for six thousand years were opened to their minds by the Framer and Upholder of all. They held converse with the leaf and flower and tree, gathering from each the secrets of its life" (Ed. 21). "God's glory in the heavens, the innumerable worlds in their orderly revolutions, the mysteries of light and sound, of day and night--all were open to the study of our first parents" (ibid).
Evidently, Adam and Eve had microscopic and telescopic vision, and they had a Teacher who had all the answers. Since then, man has become rather arrogant about his knowledge of his little world. Men such as Copernicus and Galileo, who questioned the scientific status quo, were ridiculed and persecuted. Even at the beginning of the twentieth century, many scientists thought that there was no more to be learned, that we knew it all. Then came the dawn of the atomic age, and their little egotistical bubble burst. Bohr, Einstein, deBroglie, and others explored the new frontiers of atomic structure. Giant telescopes probed the sky, and pushed our puny vision out into space 12 billion light years (one light year equals some six trillion miles). The telephone, radio, television, transistors, computers, cellphones, fiber optics, have become familiar words in our vocabulary.
Yet, with all this knowledge, man has to admit that he really knows very little about the universe in which we live. A recent news flash announced the discovery that 95 percent of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see nor detect with our present tools. Twenty- three percent is composed of subatomic particles called "dark matter" and the rest is what is called "dark energy." "Dark matter" is related to gravitation and is thought to be the stuff that holds things together with particles called gluons. "Dark energy" on the other hand pulls things apart and is related to antigravity.
I would agree that love is the answer, if we define love as, "God is love"(1 John 4:8). Many of the mysteries of this life will never be solved until we can sit at the feet of the master Teacher as did Adam and Eve, for God is the answer; He is the "sweet mystery of life.""Ah! sweet mystery of life, at last I've found thee; Ah! I know at last the secret of it all; For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking; 'tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living" (Victor Herbert).
