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.