Causality

The world around us is full of misunderstood processes and complex configurations. Just take a look around you and begin to try and explain why it snows and rains so inconsistently or how light is produced in a fluorescent bulb.

Obviously, there are empirical and scientific explanations for these phenomena. Yet for the person who does not have that precise knowledge or specific expertise, explanations become simply lethargic, backed by an incomplete confidence in science.

Such a vegetative explanation almost turns into a mere superstition that is subtle and inconspicuous. Causality deals with the most basic of life's questions.

It deals with the question of why. Causality, according to dictionary.com, is the "relation of cause and effect." Virtually every question ever proposed in our minds deals with the nature of investigating a cause or examining an effect.

Life and its most deep-seated mysteries deal almost entirely with cause and effect. Some humans have moved on from superstitions of power in inanimate objects such as oceans, mountains or deserts to superstitions of mysticism in vibrant organisms such as trees, insects and other fauna; others have adopted superstitions in the divinity of statues, images, symbols, script and other creations by mortal beings.

Throughout the span of human history, superstition in these forces has been the source of explanation for the deepest interiors of cause to the outermost externalities of effect. The progress of science, empiricism, modernity and academia are now becoming the response and counter for the superstitions that have dominated almost the entirety of human civilization.

Due to this turn in the cycle of humanity's course, what are viewed as novel and contemporary ideas and inventions are being manufactured by current minds and actions. With these seemingly newer and more recent creations, however, there may also come just as many more advanced and modern mysteries and superstitions.

Perhaps, these superstitions come in the form of establishing absolutes and unconditional systems. The reach and availability of science, empiricism, modernity and academia is mostly applicable to a certain criteria of languages, ethnicities, backgrounds, cultures and societies. All other unreached people of modernity and science, must immigrate or work under the umbrella of the reached regions or territories of empiricism and academia.

New superstitions may arise from implanting the origins of older superstition into science and empiricism. How do you scientifically explain people revolving their entire civilization around the divinity of oceans, mountains and deserts?

How do you empirically track the ideas of divine power in statues, images, symbols or scripts?

How does modernity explicate the relationship between mysticism in life and mysticism in trees, insects and other fauna?

Can academia give a cause for the existence of a concept of a god/s for the whole of humankind? Can academia explain the effect of the lack of a concept of good and evil?

Perhaps the superstition that will arise from education and scholarship is not where light comes from or why it rains, but why does that light behave differently in a vacuum and not in uniform motion, or why are the origins of vicinal water different than the origins of rain water?

Maybe it is causalities of infinite knowledge that will lead to more superstitions.

Maybe the causality in the individual is the first explanation for all other things, as in the phrase, "always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear" (1 Peter 3:15).

Zosimo Orozco is a junior legal studies major who speaks five languages.