Mwandishi Anauliza Baadhi ya Maswali:
A Reporter Asks Some Questions:
Maajabu yote yanayokuzunguka ni ya bahati mbaya? Hakuna mkono mwenyezi aliyetengeneza nyota bilioni elfu? Walijitengeneza wenyewe? Hakuna nguvu inayowaweka kwenye kozi zao? Dunia ilijitukuza ili kuzuia bahari zisianguke kuelekea jua? Watoto wachanga hujifundisha kulia wakiwa na njaa au kuumizwa? ua dogo zuliwa yenyewe ili tuweze kuchimba digitalis kwa ajili ya mioyo wagonjwa?
All of the wonders around you are accidental? No almighty hand made a thousand billion stars? They made themselves? No power keeps them on their courses? The earth magnified itself to keep the oceans from falling off toward the sun? Infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt? A small flower invented itself so that we could extract digitalis for sick hearts?
Inchi chache za juu za ardhi yetu hutokea tu kuwa na udongo wa juu ambao bila hiyo tusingekuwa na mboga za kula, hakuna nyasi kwa wanyama ambao nyama yao ni chakula chetu? Hakuna mtu aliyeweka mafuta ndani ya ardhi ya kutosha kuhifadhi hadi tutakapoyahitaji? Upepo ambao hubeba mche maridadi hadi mahali penye rutuba ulibuniwa na sisi? Bahasha isiyokauka ya hewa - maili 50 tu kwa kina - na ya msongamano sahihi kabisa wa kusaidia maisha ya mwanadamu - ni sheria nyingine ya fizikia?
The top few inches of our land just happen to have topsoil without which we would have no vegetables to eat, no grass for the animals whose meat is our food? No one put oil just deep enough in the earth to keep until we need it? The wind which carries the delicate seedling to a fertile place was devised by us? The inexhaustible envelope of air - only 50 miles deep - and of exactly the right density to support human life - is just another law of physics?
Lakini ni nani aligundua fizikia? Nani aliweka akiba ya benki ya makaa ya mawe, zinki, chuma na urani ndani ya ardhi? Hakuna mtu? Je, yote ni ajali nyingine tu isiyokadirika? Nani alionyesha sauti jinsi ya kuruka hewani kwenye wimbi la redio? Je, picha hiyo huondokaje kwenye antena, kusonga angani katika mamia ya nukta, na kuingia katika mamilioni ya nyumba kwa mpangilio ufaao ili kutokeza picha?
But who invented physics? Who made the bank deposits of coal, zinc, iron and uranium inside the earth? Nobody? Is it all just another priceless accident? Who showed a voice how to fly through the air on a radio wave? How does the picture leave the antenna, move through the air in hundreds of dots, and come into millions of homes in precisely the right order to produce a picture?
Kwa nini dunia inazunguka kwa kasi fulani bila kupunguza mwendo hata kidogo, ili tuwe na usiku na mchana? Nani anainamisha ili tuwe na misimu? Bila Ncha ya Kaskazini ya sumaku, mwanadamu hangeweza kuzunguka bahari zisizo na track za maji na hewa - lakini ilikua huko tu? Ingawa hakuna anayejua ni nini?
Why does the earth spin at a given speed without ever slowing up, so that we have night and day? Who tilts it so that we have seasons? Without the magnetic North Pole, man would be unable to navigate the trackless oceans of water and air - but it just grew there? Even though no one knows what it is?
Vipi kuhusu thermostat ya sukari chini ya kongosho ya binadamu? Inadumisha kiwango cha sukari katika damu ya binadamu ya kutosha kwa nishati, lakini bila hiyo sisi sote tungeanguka katika coma na kufa. Hakuna aliyeiunda? Jua huwasha moto wenye joto la kutosha kututegemeza duniani, lakini si moto wa kutosha kutukaanga, au baridi ya kutuua. Nani anaweka moto mara kwa mara? Mionzi maalum ya uponyaji iliyotolewa na jua - ni nani anayejua?
How about the sugar thermostat below the human pancreas? It maintains a level of sugar in the human blood sufficient for energy, but without it all of us would fall into a coma and die. No one created it? The sun stokes a fire just warm enough to sustain us on earth, but not hot enough to fry us, or cold enough to kill us. Who keeps the fire constant? The special healing rays emitted by the sun - who knows?
Nani anatengeneza mwanga wa balbu? Umeme? Ni nini? Ni nani anayeionyesha jinsi ya kusafiri kwa kasi ya umeme, kugeuza pembe ya kulia na kusokota kwenye kipande cha waya bila kuanguka? Kwa njia, mwanga ni nini? Hakuna mwanga katika fathom 4000 za maji, na samaki wanaoishi huko hawana macho. Nani aligundua macho yasiyo na maana?
Who makes a light bulb light? Electricity? What is it? Who shows it how to travel at lightning speed, make right angle turns and twists on a piece of wire without falling off? By the way, what is light? There is no light in 4000 fathoms of water, and the fish living there have no eyes. Who invented needless eyes?
Ndege mchanga atahama kutoka Kanada hadi Australia - ni nani aliyeionyesha kozi gani, kasi gani, na kwa nini inapaswa kuifanya? Swallows hurudi kwa siku fulani - wanatumia kalenda gani? Mwanadamu ana dhamiri. Hakuna mnyama mwingine. Nani aliiunda hii? Na nani aliweka dawa kwenye mimea na magugu. Penicillin ilipatikana kwenye sahani yenye ukungu. Nani alimwambia Dk. Fleming asitupe sahani hiyo? Hakuna mtu? Alikuwa na hamu tu?
A young bird will migrate from Canada to Australia - who showed it what course, what speed, and why it must do it? Swallows return on a given day - what calendar do they use? Man has a conscience. No other animal has. Who engineered this? And who put the medicines in herbs and weeds. Penicillin was found on a moldy plate. Who told Dr. Fleming not to throw away the plate? No one? He was just curious?
Mbegu za kwanza zilitoka wapi kwa mti wa kwanza ili tuwe na makazi? Je, kuna mtu alipanga moto ili tupate joto? Kwa karne nyingi katika sehemu zisizohesabika, mimea ya misitu ilidumu bila msaada wa mwanadamu. Kwa nini haikufa kwa ukungu na moto na kupuuzwa?
Where did the first seeds come from for the first tree so that we would have shelter? Did someone devise fire to keep us warm? For countless centuries in countless places, the forest vegetation perpetuated itself without man’s help. Why did it not die of blight and flame and neglect?
Mawingu huleta mvua na kivuli. Ni nani aliyewafundisha jinsi ya kuyeyusha, na kuokota maji safi, na kuyapeleka mahali panapohitaji? Je! theluji ni mapambo ya msimu wa baridi tu? Au je, inakaa juu ya vilele vya milima ikingoja chemchemi ya joto ili kuyeyusha na kuwa mvua inayohitajika kwa vijito na mashamba yaliyo chini? Ajali nzuri sana? Na kwa nini inayeyuka kwa wakati unaofaa kwa mazao machanga kunywa? Samaki ataogelea juu ya mto ili kuzalisha watoto wake, na kisha kufa, na ataruka ngazi za samaki kufanya hivyo. Salmoni anajuaje kwamba tunahitaji lax zaidi? Kwa nini sungura mjamzito huko Hawaii huogelea hadi Bermuda ili kuzaa watoto wachanga? Ni nani anayemfundisha mbwa wa nyumbani kurarua vipande vya karatasi kwenye rundo laini kwa ajili ya watoto wachanga wanaokaribia kuzaliwa?
Clouds bring rain and shade. Who taught them how to vaporize, and pick up fresh water, and carry it to places which need it? Is snow just a winter decoration? Or does it sit on mountain tops waiting for the warm spring to melt it into rains needed for the streams and farms below? A very lovely accident? And why does it melt at just the right time for the young crops to drink? A salmon will swim upstream to produce its babies, and then die, and it will jump up fish ladders to do it. How does a salmon know that we need more salmon? Why does a pregnant eel at Hawaii swim all the way to Bermuda to give birth to little eels? Who teaches a house dog to tear up strips of paper into a fluffy pile for puppies about to be born?
Moyo wa mwanadamu utapiga kwa miaka 70 au 80 bila kuyumba-yumba - unapataje utulivu wa kutosha kati ya mapigo? Figo itachuja sumu kutoka kwa damu na kuacha vitu vizuri. Inajuaje moja kutoka kwa nyingine? Ni nani aliyeupa unyumbulifu wa ulimi wa mwanadamu kuunda maneno, na ubongo kuyaelewa, lakini akakataa kwa wanyama wengine wote?
The human heart will beat for 70 or 80 years without faltering - how does it get sufficient restbetween beats? A kidney will filter poison from the blood and leave good things alone. How does it know one from the other? Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words, and a brain to understand them, but denied it to all other animals?
Ugonjwa una dalili maalum - kwa nini onyo hili? Kwa nini sio magonjwa yenye dalili zinazofanana? Ambaye alionyesha tumbo la uzazi jinsi ya kuchukua mapenzi ya watu wawili na kuendelea kupasua yai dogo mpaka, kwa wakati ufaao, mtoto mchanga apate idadi ifaayo ya vidole, macho, masikio, miguu, vidole na nywele mahali panapofaa, kisha aje. katika ulimwengu wakati ina nguvu za kutosha kuendeleza uhai? Nani?
Illness has specific symptoms - why this warning? Why not illnesses with identical symptoms? Who showed a womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting a tiny ovum until, in due time, a baby would have the proper number of fingers, eyes, ears, feet, toes and hair in the right places, and come into the world when it is strong enough to sustain life? WHO?
Je! yote yalikuwa bahati mbaya? Kuna Mungu, sivyo?
Jim Bishop, Baltimore News-Post
Was it all accidental? There is a God, isn't there?
Jim Bishop, Baltimore News-Post
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