Your Opinion: Source of our human rights

Dear Editor:

Concerning the series of letters on the source of human rights:

The Hall of Famous Missourians in our state Capitol includes Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), the namesake of the Hubble Telescope and long-time director of the Mount Palomar Observatory in southern California. Albert Einstein (of The General Theory of Relativity) visited Hubble to evaluate the observatory's photographs proving that the distance between galaxies of the universe was expanding. Einstein changed his mind; he acknowledged that the universe had a beginning.

Let's go to the beginning of the universe instead of the beginning of our country to establish the source of our human rights.

With Hubble's research and that of many other scientists, contemporary astrophysicists conclude that our universe began about 13.8 billion years ago.

The universe had a beginning, so some cause outside/beyond the universe had to be its cause. Nothing comes from nothing.

Scientists date our human species to about 200,000 years ago - billions of years too late for the source of human rights.

The real/ultimate source of human rights is the cause that caused the universe with its finely tuned properties. Many or most humans call that cause God. Certainly, the cause of the universe was not a man or group of men before the universe began.

For scientific conclusions about the universe, check www.magiscenter.com.