WHOSE YOUR GOD

EVERYONE HAS A DIFFERENT GOD, JUST DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS.


So if you ask for the typical image of God (smiting, blessing, healing, loving, punishing) in our Western culture, one that smites, blesses, heals, loves, punishes and intervenes in events of the Universe, personified as if he is a big daddy in the sky, NO, most scientific minds will agree that this does not exist.

However, if you define God as existence itself or by the probability that he happened into existence, that mathematically equation, I would argue is God.

I remember watching an interviewing with Craig Venter, the geneticist famous for mapping the human genome and who has now created the first synthetic form of life that can replicate itself.  It's nothing more than a microbe but it is life.  Many people who call themselves Christians would fear this.

Personally, although I can't stand labels, like "Christian" I do have a fondness and love of Christ and his super conscious of the Universe and man.  So for lack of a better term, I guess you could call me a Christian.  But I want to quote something I heard a preacher say once that echoes in my head:  "Jesus wasn't a Christian.  He wasn't a church."  I don't remember what he said after that but it was probably something like, love, hope, a path, etc.


I believe this whole-heartedly.  Jesus actually was anti-establishment and they way he spread his spirit, there was no church.   He just talked.  People listened.  People were moved, healed, and transformed.  It was not about any institution.  Yet we as foolish humans took notes objectively of all this and called it a "movement" and because of it's "popularity" slapped a label on it.  (If you want to learn more about the evils of how institutionalized Christianity gained popularity and a label, read about it in Ronald Weinland's book 2008 God's Final Witness. You don't have to believe in anything to appreciate his admonishment of established religion, its horrors, evils, and historic explanation as to how it came to be.  Again, you don't have to believe anything to read this book and suddenly understand how or ridiculous world got to the absurd state it's in now.

Returning back to Craig Venter, I DO NOT FEAR man's creation of life.  It is still occurred in our probable Universe.  I say probable so as not to turn away those that avoid any idea of Creationism.  (Again, get away from believing this and realize that our Universe was created but it was created because it was allowed to happen.  The creation and the probability that it would happen are one in the same.)

So when Craig Venter was asked if he believed in God, he said, "No."  He said he is simply trying to understand the rules of life and the fact that "the rules of life are a software program is much more miraculous to me."  Craig, you do believe in God.  You simply call it DNA.  It is what you look up to and realize it is bigger than us and perhaps even life itself.  It is a force that was around before we ever even knew it existed.

Apparently in Stephen Hawking's book The Grand Design he concludes that there is no "need for a Creator" to explain the origins of the Universe.   Hawking calls upon quantum mechanics which suggests that electron pop in and out of existence without cause and for no reason whatsoever, it is perhaps this spark of an electron at the beginning of time that created a chain reaction known as The Big Bang.  He also references the constant force of gravity which pulls the elements of the Universe together in various form to create planets, and life.  I would argue that this spark of a random electron into existence is Stephen Hawking's God and the force of gravity which pulled the elements together to allow himself and the rest of is into existence is even hi interactive God which is now and forever present.

Now sense quantum mechanics suggests ideas of entanglement and perhaps a connection between ourselves/consciousness (maybe all of life) and that which we choose to observe, so maybe our thoughts and prayers are affecting something.  Just how much and to what degree is a mystery.

In the book The Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner (two very accomplished physicists, one of whom was respected enough as a young student to have met with Einstein for an evening of tea) the authors marvel at how scientist just simply side step and avoid the nagging evidence of quantum mechanics that suggests there may be a link between observation and that which is observed.  What we choose to measure changes what is measured.  When I learned of this phenomenon in quantum mechanics I was blown away and stunned.  Yet those things that SCIENCE tells us are metaphysical (?) or seem magical (?), scientists are just afraid to delve into.  They have a reputation for side-stepping the philosophical implications of the marvelous things that science tells us are reality.

Having learned of this potential connection between us (and maybe life in general) and the rest of the Universe as if there is really nothing separate, has sent my mind spinning into a journey and examining the nature of what the Bible called God since the beginning of man.

FOR THE SPIRITUAL FUTURIST

Hello and welcome to the blog where those of us that obsess over the workings of the a living universe can find some "out there" thoughts on the future, God/Universe/YHWH, or whatever you want to call all of existence.

It gets deep and heavy and for those of us that may not agree with the proposed considerations here, it will probably just sound crazy. But it is easy to sound crazy when your projecting hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even until the end of the Universe.

If you think about it, if we did not trust (or have faith) in the resumes of our world's brightest physicist (of which one I have the pleasure to know) the things they say about the Universe would sound crazy.
So please approach this blog with an open mind.

In closing, my first "crazy" thought to offer any visitors is a way of thinking that will permeate all of my entries here:

Atheists and 'Believers' actually agree on a lot. Our definitions of a YHWH are simply different.

(Hebrew word for "God" but more literally meaning, "He Who allowed to exist all that exists." But some Jews even go further as to say YHWH represents something unexplained that has allowed all to exist.)

If we could all agree on the definition of what a "Creator" of the Universe would be, if it exists, we would find that the two factions of this philosophical debate are not as much at odds as both sides believe they are.

So if you like to think about the existence of life, our amazing ability as human beings to ponder the Universe, and the future, you've come to the right place.

So long as no posters here claim to have the answer to everything, all thoughts are welcome. (If you claim to know everything I simply won't believe you.)

Where do I get off Saying that Atheists and "Believers" have Lot in Common?

Simply put, both sides of the debate believe that conditions existed for the creation of the Universe.
"Believers" simply call these conditions God, YHWH, Allah, or whatever word a cultures of the world have chosen to use.

The real difference is in the behavior of the conditions that allowed existence.
Atheists would argue though that there is no force intervening with the normal procedure of events in the Universe.

I've come to learn though that because we are here, many scientist believe that there is not separate force that intervenes with worldly events but would also suggest that there is a God which is existence and our observation of the concept allows our interaction with the Universe to the point where it is as if the Universe is living and interacting with us.  So it is as if there is a personified entity even though it really just a part of our existence here.

The point is, both believers and non believers agree that we exist and there is a cause for our existence.
Although Steven Hawking's new book suggests that there is no cause for the big bang and that quantum mechanics offers proof of that because electrons can pop in and out of existence randomly without cause or reason.  But still, I would argue that that electron that popped into existence, sparking the Big Bang is what would could call and example of YHWH (I prefer this word and meaning for a creator.)  The irony is that quantum mechanics also suggest that our observation of the Universe can directly affect it's nature.

This is going to get fun.  Based on a lot of research of quantum mechanics, physics, and religion I'm hoping that I will find others out there who have found some of the same theories or considerations about the Universe and our place in it.

THE WORD "SPIRITUAL" MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME MEANING HERE

Again, I feel compelled to write to attract the right minds to my sight.

I know there are those of you out there who think as I do.

First of all, you will here me use the word "spiritual" quite a bit but I use only because I can't think of a better word to use.

Most people, especially the most pragmatic thinkers out there will see the word "spiritual" and immediately excuse anything following it that attempts any sort of logical discourse.  The word spiritual usually connotes "blind faith" or believing in things without any sort of evidence.  We often talk about the "spiritual realm" as if it is something completely separate for the physical world that we live in.  THIS IS WHERE I BRANCH OFF.

On this blog, when I speak use the word "spiritual" I am more implying the part of physics in our Universe that interact and are at play that we simply don't know a whole lot about.  These things are explainable but maybe not with our present knowledge and technology.  So for now, they may seem like "magic" and the more you study and learn about physics and quantum mechanics, the more it certainly does seem like magic.
So my point here is to explore that realm of the physical Universe that is simply intangible only because we lack the technology to touch it.

For example, we have all heard about the famous experiment where the scientist Cleve Backster sampled cheek cells from an individual and while the individual when through a series of stress trauma - physical and emotional - the cheek cells reacted under the microscope as if they were undergoing the same trauma.
This is an scientific example of phenomena that perhaps can be explained and will be some day, but we just don't know it yet.

This odd connectivity that we have and may have at a different level with all living things I believe is our spirituality that should not be ignored and should be studied if not revered.  I say possible revered since quantum mechanics suggests that our conscious observation of things affect the subatomic level.

We must continuously strive to understand what this all means.

I beg people that have the same sentiments to share your thoughts here.  Again, if you believe you comfortably know all the answers to everything, I will actually say PLEASE DON'T.  I'm looking for individuals that believe or don't believe as I do to share only so long as they share the belief that we are ALL SEEKING THE TRUTH of the NATURE OF THINGS.

So again, this "magic" of the physical world which takes place every day, is the "spiritual realm" that I speak of.  And why should it be revered?  Because it is some how connected to our consciousness and/or state of mind.  And since love and fear are the two most powerful of all emotions, we must constantly explore how these states of mind are affecting the world we live in.

I hope I'm starting to make sense to those out there stumbling upon this site.

I've got a lot more up my sleeve, like why there may an Apocalypse, regardless of what the Bible says, and why there may even be a peaceful period to Follow, regardless of what the bible says.

For support of these ideas you my find it in Frank J Tippler's book: The Physics of Immortality.