God’s Existence: Evidence and Proof
“The heavens declare nothing really, the firmament showeth nothing really, day unto day uttereth nothing really and night unto night showeth nothing really. There is no speech or language from them, full stop, end of pre-scientific rubbish.”
Such would be a possible rewording of Psalm 19 in the hands of the so-called ‘New Atheists’ like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, all of whom are militant atheists who reject the argument from/to design, which contends that the structure of the universe, the totality of nature testifies to the existence of God. Nature’s evidence does indeed constitute proof of the existence of the God of the Bible.
But why do I call it Nature’s evidence? Because I wish to emphasize the nature of evidence in law and in life in general and the level of proof by which we operate in law and in life in general and ask that when we consider the existence of God we require nothing higher than that level of proof by which we operate in law and in life in general.
Our law courts deal with two basic classes of action, civil and criminal. In a civil case the level of proof is “a preponderance of evidence” which means, on balance, which side has more evidence in its favour.
In a criminal case the level of proof is higher than in a civil case, it is proof “beyond reasonable doubt” which does not mean proof beyond every doubt but proof beyond reasonable doubt, that is, proof that would move a reasonable, rational, logical-thinking person to be convinced about the truthfulness of the case being presented by the prosecution.
We all act on levels of poof in life and the standard is usually proof ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ or to put it another way proof to a high degree of probability.
Learn this neglected fact of life, ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY IN LIFE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE AREA OF MATHEMATICS OR WHERE GOD IS SOVEREIGNLY AND TOTALLY IN CHARGE, FOR EVERYTHING ELSE WE OPERATE ONLY ON A HIGH DEGREE OF PROBABILITY=BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT.
So whether it’s an option to cross the road during busy traffic, marrying someone ‘until death us do part’, planning to go from point A to B via whatever means, we make our decisions on the basis of a high degree of probability.
That same yardstick has to be applied to our assessment of evidence for the existence of God, is the evidence adequate to ground belief ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, is there evidence enough to conclude with a ‘high degree of probability’ that there is a God, is God ‘the best explanation’ for nature and its complexities?
Let me quickly clear away some philosophical cobwebs from your minds. Since we are going to be arguing about cause and effect then at the very outset let us understand another big basic fact of life.
If you concede as fact that something is there in the world as opposed to nothing then one entity in the universe must be eternal, uncaused—not self-caused, which is absurd— and possess within itself the causal explanation of everything else in the universe.
In philosophical terms we would say (contra Michael Dingwall) an infinite regress of existential (real) causes is nonsensical.
Appealing to chance as a key explanatory option re origins is useless. Though we tend to use the word ‘chance’ loosely, chance is not a substance or entity that can cause anything. Chance is not an entity with causal power. Chance is a non-entity, technically chance is no thing=nothing. Chance is a word we use when we mean to say ‘not planned by anyone’ e.g. “we met by chance at the Mall yesterday”. We do not mean, I hope, that the causative entity called ‘chance’ brought us together at the Mall yesterday.
Prior to 1913 most, if not all astronomers, chose to believe that the Universe was eternal, had no beginning, and that fact allowed for any possibility over time. Astronomer Vesto Slipher’s 1913 discovery of galaxies rapidly moving away from the earth was confirmed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and this led to the realization that the Universe was expanding which also meant that THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING.
Robert Jastrow, who professes to be an agnostic, said in his book God and the Astronomers, “Five independent lines of evidence—the motion of the galaxies, the discovery of the primordial fireball, the law of thermodynamics, the abundance of helium in the universe and the life story of the stars—point to one conclusion; all indicate that the Universe had a beginning.” (1992 edition, 103)
Since the 1913 discovery by Slipher the Cosmic Background Explorer COBE satellite, in 1992, provided additional confirming information on the nature of the origin of the Universe. The satellite discovered background radiation from the universe’s origin (= Jastrow’s primordial fireball). The findings of the satellite attracted the attention of major newspapers and TV programmes across the world.
George Smoot, project leader for the COBE satellite and joint winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, declared, “What we have found is evidence for the birth of the Universe…If you’re religious it’s like looking at God.”
So based on current scientific findings it is no longer sensible to say what Carl Sagan said years ago “The COSMOS is all there is, all there was, and all there ever will be.” Wrong, wrong, wrong.
There was a time when the universe was not and by the only logical option conceivable, a supreme mind/will was exercised to bring time and space into being. That supreme mind/will is the personal God, whom the Bible says repeatedly, transcends time and space and is the best explanation for the evidence that nature provides.
I highly recommend the DVD The Privileged Planet, Illustra Media for another line of this evidence from nature. This is just a thin slice of the proof for God from Astrophysics. Microbiology and information Science can also be called on as compelling witnesses.
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There are two things in the universe: energy (God), and, information (creation); and, information is the conformation of energy. The First Law of Thermodynamiocs is, “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed”. Energy is eternal. We only acquired consciousness in finite time, therefore, probability demands that energy is conscious. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is, “In an isloated system (like creation) entropy always increases”; creation and all its parts, including us, are perishable, like bubbles in a shaken bottle of water.
We are not energy. If we were energy we would never sleep. We are only information, therefore, we are perishable,, like bubbles in a shaken bottle of water. We are closed circuits of the one substance, E=Mcc, in the one substance, E=Mcc, that there be something to move out of the way and fill in behind. Our closed circuit has consciousness imposed upon it by the capacitance and ectropy (the opposite of entropy) of the neurons of the arising reticular formation of the medulla oblongata in the brain.
God, energy, is a trinity, which in my finite mind seems to be probability, called phronesis by the ancient Gnostics (the Holy Spirit?); energy at the speed of light (the Father?); and slower that the speed of light (the Son?). Freedom loving Americans don’t want this absolute proof of God to give Islam any advantage over freedom loving Americans.
The entropy of the universe is, said by science to be, the proportion of photons to nucleons, therefore, a measurement of the extent of polarity cancellation. Entropy production rate in thermodynamics is analogous to velocity in mechanics, threrfore, it has a light speed equivalency, but that may be surpassed. It gives access to globally bent timespace. When the rigid orthogonality of flat timespace is left behind, matter takes on a tenuousity indistinguishable to that which is called “spirit”. Spirit is matter in flat timespace; and, matter is spirit in bent timespace.
In globally bent timespace there is a high entropy production rate, which is identical to polarity cancellation, that below a pi value of e=2.718… all is in flames. It is the Lake of Fire. Polarities are clockwise and counterclockwise, therefore, with the breakdown of structure, which seperates opposite polarities, we may undifferentiate into nothingness, like those bubbles in a shaken bottle of water.
Everything is striving to run down and undiffferentiate into nothingness. The heart of every pleasure is a moment of almost permanent nothingness. Nonexistnece is the satisfaction of all desires. That which builds things up, itself, does so by running down. It looks like the only will of energy (God) is for things to run down. How do worlds start? The point nothingness (.) of a singularity is rastered by time into space (U), which exerting its oneness in one direction, the “prime vector” (l) which is the forward movement of time, stirring closed circuitry (O), which all going the same way, clash (vO^XvO^), the Big Bang, turning some circuitry to go confluently (^OvvO^, but face to face) pressured by the ambient repulsion to undifferentiate with each other.
But, many people wanted to be immortal, to enjoy the moments of nonexistence, not realizing that permanent nonexistence would be the eternal satisfaction of all desires. So God incarnated as Jesus Christ, and gave all those who would obey Him immortality in Heaven.
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“There are two things in the universe: energy and information; and, information is the conformation of energy” comes from “Living Systems” by James Miller. He wrote this book on general systems dynamic engineering for the federal governement. The government almost classified it. In 1John1:5 it says, “God is light”. Light is energy. The rest is all based on, and copied from. solid science. Here are current situations to be concerned about: The new blasphemy law is a violation of our American Constitution, being a law respecting the establishment of religion; and, abridgiing freedom of speech and of the press. The new blasphemy law outlaws any criticism of the Koran or Islam.
With the blasphemy law Muslims will be able to force Americans to convert to Islam. How? They will command an American to convert to Islam, and, If that American says, “No!”, the Muslim will simply ask, “Why?”, and, if that American says, “Jesus Christ is God the Son, and he was crucified to forgive sin by grace”, the Muslim will simply say, “By that you are saying that the Koran and Islam are wrong. That is criticism of the Koran and Islam, and as such you have violated the new blasphemy law in front of us witnesses”.
That American will then be arrested, put on trial, with the testimony of those witnesses against him, convicted, and imprisoned. If an American submits and becomes a Muslim, he will be subject to the strict Islamic Sharia Law and liable to torture, mutilation, and stoning for apostacy or other violations against Sharia law.
We will lose our American Constitution here, and, for example, no longer be protected against ex post facto laws. If you have ever done what is outlawed by the new laws, any time in your past life, you will be liable to prosrcution and severe punishemnt now. Hell will break out in American.
This is being done by the One World Order to impose an Islamic government upon America to restore the secrets of their Illuminati, for, then all suspected of knowing any of the secrets will be able to be rounded up and eliminated. The cure is to make these secrets common knowledge. They can’t get everybody. Then, it will be futile to scrap our Consitiution.
Know the power of your mind. If just over 50% of your brain believes something, it will become your reality. How? There is the sixth dimension, sideways in time, where there are probability time lines for every possibility. As you increase the percentage of your brain use, it becomes easier and easier to go to the time line where you have what you imagine. The power of the mind is will times imagination, just as sure as force times velocity is power in mechanics. As you increase the percentage of your brain use, your imagination gets stronger and stronger, increasing the power of your mind. There are things that increase the percentage of brain use:
It is said that Jesus “descended into Hell and on the third day arose from the dead”. Crucifixion forces what is called today “holotropic breathing”. Dr. Stanislav Grof replaced LSD with holotropic breathing. LSD awakens brain use beyond the normal 10% by blocking the inhibitory neurons.
Holotropic breathing, and other muscarinic nervous system stimulations, awaken the brain by overriding the inhibitory neurons. The neurons of the parasympathetic nervous system are called “muscarinic” for their stimuilation overriding the inhibitory neurons like the hallucinary drug muscarine.
The major plexuses are called “chakras” in yoga. Stimulation, called “kundalini” in yoga, spreads in any particular nervous system. In the case of the muscarinic nervous system the stimulation spreads to the brain and there awakens more than 10% brain use.
The biggest muscarinic nerve is the vagus nerve. It doesn’t pass through the spine, but, its main trunk emerges from the brain in the roof of the nasopharynx. Advanced yogins have cut the ligature that holds their tongues down so they can put their tongues up the back of their noses.
This act is called the “khechari mudra”, in English, the “fig gesture”. This act causes so much vagal stimulation that the heart stops by vagal syncope. The yogin can then stay in suspended animation for any chosen length of time and voluntarily withdraw his tongue to “resurrect”.
The blood stays oxygenated during the khechari mudra. Houdini did this in some of his feats. But, with the “water board” of the Gitmo Baptism, the intent is to fill the nasopharynx with water, enough just to put the candidate for initiation into what Dr. Stanislav Grof called “perinatal matrix three. Large doses of LSD were used for the same purpose in the “Clockwork Orange” treatment.
Is there any other Hell? Very often those who resurrected from what seemed to witnesses as death, had a homeopathic reaction from death such that the brain woke up with more than its normal 10% use, so that, this actually “hyperlife” state was called, the world of the dead, the Underworld, Hell, etc.
The mind is very powerful to materialize its visualizations as reality in the Underworld. Can anyone control all their thoughts? Things go wrong. as soon as the candidate wishes he were someone else, “zap” he body switches into that someone else, where he no longer has the more than 10% brain use, and is weak again.
But, he doesn’t belong in anyone elses body, so, as soon as that body sleeps or dies, it’s into another body he goes. And, on and on and on, going backward and forward in time in body after body, into everyone he has ever seen, for about a hundred years duration.
This was called the “aioniu amartematos”, an aeon of failure”, in the original Greek Bible, translated into English “etenrnal damnation”. But, Jesus Christ, being God, body switched into everyone who ever was or ever will be, and on every probability timeline. That’s why He is always in you and I. This is real.
The awakened brain accesses the multidimensional universe that people with only 10% brain use are unaware of. It doesn’t have to be that extreme. Perinatal matrix one is euphoric. In perinatal matrix two, the “Knowledge of Good and Evil”, as one goes into this fifth dimensional direction, the brain gets more and more powerful to travel in the sixth dimension to the probability timelines corresponding to imagination.
Dr. Stanislav Grof, in his “Adventure of Self Discovery” said that this was the real sacrament of Baptism, but, it was also what Adam and Eve did with each other, “eating” the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” that constituted the “original sin” so that the Cathars made this thier sacrament of “Unbaptism”.
Other related stimulations are condemned as “witchcraft”, called in the Koran “blowing on knots”. It’s all how far you go that determines its arbitrary worth to various classes of society. It has been the most suppressed secret in the world. Dr. Grof is the first to get away with making it somewhat public. But, every Christian has the right to understand the crucifixion. It must be common public knowledge for justice.
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Clinton Chisholm Reply:
May 9th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I have been invited by Rev. Clinton Chisholm to respond to Miguel’s piece, for the benefit of onlookers.
The excerpted remarks below are an exercise in mysticism on several themes in science, with philosophical speculations pronounced as though they were scientifically tinged facts. That means that, unfortunately, some fairly big questions are being begged, and scientific results are reinterpreted as a sort of mystical whispering of the spheres.
I will therefore comment by interleaving enumerated points.
GEM of TKI
May, 2011
Excerpting and commenting [comments in dark red]:
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>> “There are two things in the universe: energy (God), and, information (creation); and, information is the conformation of energy. The First Law of Thermodynamics is, “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed”. Energy is eternal.
1: A bare assertion, i.e. a speculative metaphysical – philosophical – claim asserted as though it were unquestionable truth. But, such claims are neither self-evident, nor logically entailed by such self-evident truths, nor supported by empirical evidence. They are merely assertions of one person’s beliefs.
2: Energy, in science is that which has ability to exert forces and move bodies at the points of application of forces. That is, to do work. Einstein as well showed that the kinetic energy equation in relativity has a rest mass term, hence we arrived at the inter convertibility of mass and energy, the basis of say the Sun’s ability to emit light. But, in effect, energy is here being identified with God, not seen as a capacity or creation of God, like massive matter.
3: Similarly, information is best understood as a meaningful configuration of elements – material or energetic — that conveys messages or enables function. For instance we modulate radio waves, which are energy, to transmit radio signals. More humbly, we make ink-marks on paper to express textual messages.
4: The first law of thermodynamics is at root, and empirically based generalisation: we observe energy going from one form to another, and so we deduce that it – along with several other quantities such as angular momentum – is a conserved quantity. Once energy has existed, it is transferred and transformed.
5: So, we use energy accounting routinely in scientific work. But that under our observation and inference energy is conserved, does not logically entail that it is eternal; it could have been created and then preserved, say by the sustaining word of God who holds all things together.
We only acquired consciousness in finite time, therefore, probability demands that energy is conscious.
6: In short, there was an origin of man with the conscious mind, which indeed demands an explanation; contingent being implies underlying necessary being. The nature of that necessary being is debated. The rest is simple speculation.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is, “In an isolated system (like creation) entropy always increases”; creation and all its parts, including us, are perishable, like bubbles in a shaken bottle of water.
7: Indeed, entropy in an isolated system, by the Clausius demonstration of heat exchange between a hot and a cold body within, will tend to increase. Where, entropy is a measure of molecular scale disorder.
8: But in fact, if a system imports energy, that may well make its entropy increase even faster, e.g. heating up and UV irradiation of your car dashboard by the sun makes it tend to deteriorate.
We are not energy. If we were energy we would never sleep.
9: We are embodied, conscious creatures, who use a lot of chemical potential energy to carry out the functions of biological life, energy that is consumed in our food and stored in our bodies; e.g. in fat cells.
We are only information, therefore, we are perishable,, like bubbles in a shaken bottle of water.
10: Manifestly, we are embodied, and while information is a key part of the workings of cell based life, we are not “only” information. Indeed, the information is stored and expressed through molecular nano-machines, such as DNA, RNA, ribosomes, and enzymes.
We are closed circuits of the one substance, E=Mcc, in the one substance, E=Mcc, that there be something to move out of the way and fill in behind.
11: This is a mystical use of the Einstein mass-energy relationship, E = M*c^2. Our bodies are made up from atomic matter, which has an energy equivalent, but that does not mean that the atoms of our bodies are not real and part of our being.
Our closed circuit has consciousness imposed upon it by the capacitance and ectropy (the opposite of entropy) of the neurons of the arising reticular formation of the medulla oblongata in the brain.
12: Speculative, the seat of consciousness is an unknown of science, as are its mechanisms that give rise to subjective, intensional experience of the world. That the jarring of the medulla can induce unconsciousness is true, but that does not mean that the medulla is the source of consciousness. [Think about what happens if you drop your cell phone. Is the cell phone the SOURCE of the voice you are hearing from the other end, or a means of receiving and applying it?]
God, energy, is a trinity, which in my finite mind seems to be
13: A very different use of the conception of God as triune than would be seen in say the Nicene syntheses of 325 and 381.
probability, called phronesis by the ancient Gnostics (the Holy Spirit?);
14: Speculative redefinition of the Spirit of God, based on a mistaken reading of one of the Greek words for “wisdom.” As a simple 101 cross check, we can see in Wikipedia, commenting on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: “Phronesis is the capability to consider the mode of action in order to deliver change, especially to enhance the quality of life.”
15: The reference to the C2 – 4 Gnostics and their speculations shows the mystical, esoteric mindset at work. This would be as opposed to the direct simplicity of the historically and fulfilled prophecy anchored gospel we may read of in the AD 55 1 Cor 15, a prime source, eyewitness testimony reduced to record within 25 years of the events:
1 Cor 15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers,1 of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you-unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. [ESV]
energy at the speed of light (the Father?);
16: Speculation
and slower that the speed of light (the Son?).
17: Speculation
Freedom loving Americans don’t want this absolute proof of God to give Islam any advantage over freedom loving Americans.
18: The above cluster of speculative assertions is not a proof of God.
The entropy of the universe is, said by science to be, the proportion of photons to nucleons, therefore, a measurement of the extent of polarity cancellation. Entropy production rate in thermodynamics is analogous to velocity in mechanics, therefore, it has a light speed equivalency, but that may be surpassed. It gives access to globally bent timespace. When the rigid orthogonality of flat timespace is left behind, matter takes on a tenuousity indistinguishable to that which is called “spirit”. Spirit is matter in flat timespace; and, matter is spirit in bent timespace.
19: Speculation
In globally bent timespace there is a high entropy production rate, which is identical to polarity cancellation, that below a pi value of e=2.718… all is in flames. It is the Lake of Fire.
20: Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or about 3.14159 . . . The number e, the point on the x-axis where the area beyond x = 1 under the curve y = 1/x, reaches unity, is 2.71828 . . . They are not even nearly equal.
21: the inference from the value of e to the lake of fire is a leap of irrelevance.
Polarities are clockwise and counterclockwise, therefore, with the breakdown of structure, which separates opposite polarities, we may undifferentiate into nothingness, like those bubbles in a shaken bottle of water.
22: There are different kinds of polarities, with diverse effects. E.g. we have magnetic and electrical polarities.
Everything is striving to run down and undiffferentiate into nothingness. The heart of every pleasure is a moment of almost permanent nothingness. Nonexistnece is the satisfaction of all desires.
23: this seems to be a speculative leap to the Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
That which builds things up, itself, does so by running down. It looks like the only will of energy (God) is for things to run down. How do worlds start? The point nothingness (.) of a singularity is rastered by time into space (U), which exerting its oneness in one direction, the “prime vector” (l) which is the forward movement of time, stirring closed circuitry (O), which all going the same way, clash (vO^XvO^), the Big Bang, turning some circuitry to go confluently (^OvvO^, but face to face) pressured by the ambient repulsion to undifferentiate with each other.
24: The Big Bang view does project back to a singularity, which does trigger the expansion of a space-time domain, under the solutions of relevant sets of equations.
But, many people wanted to be immortal, to enjoy the moments of nonexistence, not realizing that permanent nonexistence would be the eternal satisfaction of all desires. So God incarnated as Jesus Christ, and gave all those who would obey Him immortality in Heaven.”
25: Another speculative leap of assertions.>>
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