The evidence for and against
So far as I am aware of, there is no clearly visible objective and verifiable evidence that God exists.
All the evidence is subjective in nature, personal accounts of Gods intervention, conversations, and so forth.
An aetheist would have to know more than I do, for an aetheist knows there is no God
– Carl Sagan
What Carl Sagan is referring to, is the lack of evidence to disprove Gods existance, hence it is rational to conclude that Carl Sagan is an agnostic.
Some people are “functional aetheists”, remaining uncertain as to whether God exists or not, but seeing no signs of God anywhere around us.
I think whether you believe or not, has to do with your own experiences – it is easier to believe in something if you have seen it for youreslf, and whether you believe other people who state they have experienced contact by God.
How it all began
The quantum ripples rendered different probabilities, never quite crystalising into solidity, nothing was definite.
Until the ripples became self-aware in one area, an observer.
With observation comes reality.
With the observer’s first thought, the ripples hardened, like water hardens into ice, like Schrodinger’s cat becomes live or dead.
In the beginning was the mind.
Occam’s Razor
when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
Occam’s razor is good for expanding knowledge, but there are limits.
When you have two competing theories, one being that human beings are created, the other that we evolved, and the simplest is better, that would lead to a belief in creation.
When you have two competing theories, one being that America does not exist, the other being that America does exist and the world is round, from the perspective of a European in the middle ages, if the simplest one is better, then there is no America.
Science is incomplete, there may well be immenseness out there that we have no idea of.
Further to Faster than Light Speed
A friend of mine had the following to say about my previous article on light-speed.
Pressuming you are moving at the speed of light and you have survived your inrcease in mass and density, light travelling toward you and away from you would still move at the speed of light, the doppler effect would mean that light travelling towards you would be of such short wavelength that you would be vaporised but you would still be be hit by it at the speed of light. This is due to the fact that light does not move like sound (longitudinally) but transversely. Reference to 5th paragraph “faster than lightspeed”
Now, this has to do with relativity, and true travel faster than the speed of light, rather than relative travel faster than light.
Once upon a time, people thought there was a mysterious and magical aether in which certain things were a guaranteed constant, the metaphor of all actions being limited by a chess board, rather than in dynamic relationship to each other sums this up.
This means that the constant theory of reality (that the speed of light is constant everywhere) relies on a pre-set chessboard like map of spacetime, where as the truth appears to be that space time is relative, a dynamic area with deformable terrain.
The assumption made here is that I am referring to true travel faster than the speed of light, in a given area, rather than relative travel faster than the speed of light, which is definitely possible.
The speed of light is constant from any light source, at about 300,000km/s, but relatively, based on the initial direction and movement of the light source, the speed of light can appear to be exceeded with a well-placed observer.
To travel faster than the speed of light, setting out from near to a light source such as Sol, one must exceed the speed of radiance.
To be on the other side of the universe, and moving at 0.9x the speed of light towards us, and another object on this side of the universe such as Sol, moving at 0.9x the speed of light towards that object, gives a net effect of exceeding the speed of light. This is validated by theories and evidence based on the analysis of quasars.
However, to truly exceed the speed of light, that’s something that I need to do more reading on. Studies on quantum entanglement have shown this is possible, however from one human to another, the fastest method we have for passing information is via light, which I think affects our thinking about light.
No human would ever be able to witness successfully an object moving at faster than light speeds and away from us; which I think is a big part of this whole thing.
Faster than lightspeed
A probable view of light, from the perspective of moving faster than, and through the light that has already reflected from the destination and other places.
They say if you go faster than light you go backwards in time.
I think that’s wrong, and I’ll explain why;
We comprehend reality via our eyes, from where we stand. Anything at faster-than-light speeds and moving away from us would be invisible to the human eye.
If you image what it would be like to move at the speed of light, you would never be able to see behind you with human senses, and you would only see infront of you.
If you were to move faster, you would start moving through the light that had already reflected from where you started, perhaps giving the illusion of going backwards in time. You wouldn’t truly go backwards in time, you’d just see events that had happened earlier in time.
In planes that move faster than the speed of sound, it’s impossible to hear any noise from behind you, because you are moving faster than the sound from an event behind you, that’s why a bomber moving at over the speed of sound can see the flash from the bomb, but will not hear the explosion.
If you were in a silent plane moving faster than the speed of sound, without disrupting the air around you, you would probably hear things that had happened in the past, thereby going backwards through sound.
If you are moving at the speed of light, you won’t see a watch where you started from tick – the time piece will appear to be frozen in time, but the watch will still tick, well you wouldn’t see a watch where you started out from ticking anyways, and a watch ahead of you would tick twice as fast.
Light is how we see, that’s all you have to grasp.
Put simply, if you are going faster than sound, you won’t hear a gunshot behind you.
But you’d ultimately move through the sound waves ahead of you, thereby giving the illusion of going backwards through sound.
I hypothesise that light is the same; that one does not go backwards in time after exceeding light-speed, but rather can view events that occured prior to starting off on the light-speed flight, beause one is passing through the remnants of light.
Logic God
Subjective Realities Logic illustrated
Isaiah 55:89
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
We exist.
That we exist proves that reality can support sentient life.
If reality can support sentient life, and reality has omniscience, then reality would track input from sentient beings.
If that is simply an omniscient calculator, as self-aware as an internet search engine, then that will, sooner or later, deduct that there are certain truths that can only be confirmed by sentience; such as that life is worth living. No one would deny that statement, at the worst they would say “maybe for someone else”.
If reality is omniscient, that would be the all-knowing God some worship.
That truth can become twisted at times, one can say they individually want to live wonderfully, and they would rather have a different group die horribly, but the global truth is that over-all everyone wants to live wonderfully, and I believe that can be done without infringing peoples right to life and happiness.
That truth would lead to actions in favour of survival of sentient life, because the truth is that sentience is worth having and wants to be treated nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
Eyes see Light, Ears hear Sound
Sunset
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
- John 1:5
Our eyes pick up the fastest moving thing we have ever witnessed; light; but not the fastest thing of all, the expansion of the known universe. In 13 billion years, our universe has expanded from one point, to over 90 billion years across according to NASA. That expansion rate averages out to be approximately seven times the speed of light.
If there was something that moved so fast you never saw would you believe in it? Once, people believed that if you moved faster than a galloping horse your internal organs would liquify, currently we view the speed of light as an impassable limit, however;
1. we have always exceeded every other limit in the past, the speed of sound, the speed of a horse galloping, and
2. If anything moved faster than the speed of light we would be unable to observe it via our standard senses.
E = MC2
This equasion is brilliant, it shows the interrelationship between energy and matter and light, showing how each can flow into each other under the right circumstances.
We see with light, we hear and feel with matter, we are self-aware and energy flows through us all.
John 1, the Dawn of Recorded History
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
– John 1:1
Language.
In the beginning was the word.
I feel this represents the dawn of recorded history, before then we never asked what came before, what was over that hill, where did we come from, all these questions involve language.
Without words, we could not record our past; language is the crucial invention that allows you to comprehend this and so many other aspects of human society.
We view our past through the filter of language, we learn our past and plan for our future with language, when it comes to personal history, and the history of our people, all our most detailed history is recorded in language, history is passed down with words.
But words are not the only way we communicate; on this planet; before the language was the emotion, love, and anything from out there that spoke to our species or any, should learn the language of feeling first.
In the minds eye
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
“All that you touch and all that you see, all that you taste, all you feel”
Eclipse, Pink Floyd
Subjective reality is where we all live.
Each individuals unique view of reality, processing information one brain at a time; the shared subjective experience, shared when we communicate, helps us to get closer to objective reality, helps us to determine what is true and what is not; it is subjective experience that determines good from bad, pain from pleasure.
Through sharing that subjective, we come up with collective beliefs and objective truth; the subjective account of an experiment, when shared with another scientist leads to increasing.
The Greek Goddess Iris, grand-daughter of Nyx, is said to be the messenger of the Gods, and now we use the word Iris to refer to a part of the eye, one thinks of rainbows and the spectrum of colour, they said Gods messages were visual, perhaps subjective and unique.
Nietzsche said that to see with the eyes of 100 men would be objective reality, that would be closer to objective experience of what it is to be a human male, but we would still not be closer to objective truth.
Before the Big Bang
Neuron pulses
We don’t know what was before the big bang.
Perhaps the collapse of a previous universe followed by the moment of creation of this universe; maybe absolutely nothing, no energy, no time, simply the potential to exist; Gods will; other realities; we have no confirmed evidence, nor even a way of checking, what existed prior to the moment of the big bang.
All hypothesis’s lack evidence, but we would love to learn.
I have one answer; to allow sentience to exist.
Only while there is self-awareness is there any meaning and truth to anything.
The evidence in favour is that through our existance, reality chose life.