Actually,
my Cloud Cosmology build on an exact mathematical description of the first
movement and the resultant expansion of the physical universe necessitates the
external will or consciousness or the Ubermind as part of the internal mathematica
of the physical universe while still external.
It is really quite astounding.
As
well much of the ongoing debate in terms of God fails miserably to address just
what GOD is. Five thousand years of hand
waving simply does not cut it. As
indicated, GOD is the conscious content of our universe and is understood by
ourselves only to the extent that we can sense GOD and Query GOD.
Any
dissertation that fails to address the question of what GOD is is completely missing the whole point and is
hopelessly lacking rigor. The rest is
scientific handwaving.
Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Biology, physics,
mathematics, engineering, and medicine help us understand the world, but there
is much about life that remains a mystery.
A
number of recent books and articles will have you believe that—somehow—science
has now disproved the existence of God. We know so much about how the
Universe works, their authors claim, that God is simply unnecessary: we can
explain all the workings of the Universe without the need for a “creator.”
And
indeed, science has brought us an immense amount of understanding. The sum
total of human knowledge doubles roughly every couple of years or less. In
physics and cosmology, for example, we can now claim to know what happened to
our Universe as early as a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang,
something that may seem astounding. In chemistry, we understand the most
complicated reactions among atoms and molecules, and in biology we know how the
living cell works and have mapped out our entire genome. But does this
vast knowledge base disprove
the existence of some kind of preexistent outside force that may have launched
our Universe on its way?
Science
has won major victories against entrenched religious dogma throughout the 19th
Century. Throughout the 1800s, discoveries of Neanderthal remains in Belgium,
Gibraltar, and Germany have shown that humans were not the only hominids to
occupy Earth, and fossils and remains of now-extinct animals and plants have
further demonstrated that flora and fauna evolve, live for millennia, and then
sometimes die off, ceding their place on the planet to better-adapted species.
These discoveries lent strong support to the then-emerging theory of evolution,
published by Charles Darwin in 1859. And in 1851, Leon Foucault, a self-trained
French physicist, proved definitively that Earth rotates—rather than staying in
place as the sun revolved around it—using a special pendulum whose circular
motion revealed Earth’s rotation. Equally, geological discoveries made over the
same century devastated the “young Earth” hypothesis. We now know that Earth is
billions—not thousands—of years old, as some theologians had calculated based
on counting generations back to the biblical Adam. All of these discoveries
defeated literal interpretations of scripture.
But has modern science, from the
beginning of the 20th Century, proved that there is no God, as some
commentators are now claiming? Science is an amazing, wonderful undertaking: it
teaches us about life, the world, and the Universe. But it has not revealed to
us why the Universe came into existence, nor what preceded its birth in the Big
Bang. Equally, biological evolution has not brought us the slightest
understanding of how the first living organisms emerged from inanimate matter
on this planet, and how the advanced eukaryotic cells—the highly structured
building blocks of advanced life forms—ever emerged from simpler organisms. Neither
does it explain one of the greatest mysteries of science: how did consciousness
arise in living things? Where do symbolic thinking and self-awareness come
from? What is it that allows us humans to understand the mysteries of biology,
physics, mathematics, engineering, and medicine? And what enables us to create
great works of art, music, architecture, and literature? Science is nowhere
near to explaining these deep mysteries.
But much more important than these
conundrums is the persistent question of the fine-tuning of the parameters of
the Universe: Why is our Universe so precisely tailor-made for the emergence of
life? This question has never been answered satisfactorily, and I believe that
it will never find a scientific solution. For the deeper we delve into the
mysteries of physics and cosmology, the more the Universe appears to be
intricate and incredibly complex. To explain the quantum-mechanical behavior of
even one tiny particle requires pages and pages of extremely advanced
mathematics. Why are even the tiniest particles of matter so unbelievably
complicated? It appears that there is a vast, hidden “wisdom,” or structure, or
a knotty blueprint for even the most simple-looking element of nature. And the
situation becomes much more daunting as we expand our view to the entire
cosmos.
We know that 13.7 billion years ago, a
gargantuan burst of energy, whose nature and source are completely unknown to
us and not in the least understood by science, initiated the creation of our
Universe. Then suddenly, as if by magic, the “God particle”—the Higgs boson
discovered two years ago inside CERN’s powerful particle accelerator, the Large
Hadron Collider—came into being and miraculously gave the Universe its mass.
Why did this happen? The mass constituted elementary particles—the quarks and
the electron—whose weights and electrical charges had to fall within
immeasurably tight bounds for what would happen next. For from within the primeval
“soup” of elementary particles that constituted the young Universe, again as if
by a magic hand, all the quarks suddenly bunched in threes to form protons and
neutrons, their electrical charges set precisely to the exacting level needed
to attract and capture the electrons, which then began to circle nuclei made of
the protons and neutrons. All of the masses, the charges, and the forces of
interaction in the Universe had to be just in the precisely needed amounts so
that early light atoms could form. Larger ones would then be cooked in nuclear
fires inside stars, thus giving us the carbon, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and all
the other elements that are so essential for life to emerge. And eventually,
the highly complicated double-helix molecule, the life-propagating DNA, would
be formed.
Why did everything we need in order to
exist come into being? How was all of this possible without some latent outside
power to orchestrate the precise dance of elementary particles required for the
creation of all the essentials of life? The great British mathematician Roger
Penrose has calculated—based on only one of the hundreds of parameters of the
physical Universe—that the probability of the emergence of a life-giving cosmos
was one divided by 10, raised to the power 10, and again raised to the power of
123. This is a number as close to zero as anyone has ever imagined. (The
probability is much, much smaller than that of winning the Mega Millions
jackpot for more days than the Universe has been in existence.)
The “Scientific Atheists” have
scrambled to explain this troubling mystery by suggesting the existence of a
multiverse—an infinite set of universes, each with its own parameters. In some
universes, the conditions are wrong for life; however, by the sheer size of this
putative multiverse, there must be a universe where everything is right. But if
it takes an immense power of nature to create one universe, then how much more
powerful would that force have to be in order to create infinitely many
universes? So the purely hypothetical multiverse does not solve the problem of
God. The incredible fine-tuning of the Universe presents the most powerful
argument for the existence of an immanent creative entity we may well call God.
Lacking convincing scientific evidence to the contrary, such a power may be
necessary to force all the parameters we need for our existence—cosmological,
physical, chemical, biological, and cognitive—to be what they are.
Science
and religion are two sides of the same deep human impulse to understand the
world, to know our place in it, and to marvel at the wonder of life and the
infinite cosmos we are surrounded by. Let’s keep them that way, and not let one
of them attempt to usurp the role of the other.
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