The way to love someone
is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul
until you find a crack,
and then gently pour your love into that crack.
~Keith Miller

Monday, April 4, 2011

"Here is my scientific proof of God that has my most vehement atheist friends writhing.

First, imagine throwing a baseball. Using simple kinematic equations of physics, we can predict the ball’s exact trajectory by knowing the initial conditions such as the balls mass, size, and acceleration. Obviously, the ball is not alive and cannot move on its own volition, so the ball is completely deterministic to us. In this sense, we are godlike relative to the ball. Our limited understanding of physics allows us to predict things for large objects such as planets as well as medium size objects such as baseballs, but when we get down to the atomic level, our predictive power becomes meaningless due to quantum mechanical effects, where the motion of electrons are all probabilistic.

If we extrapolate the ball’s trajectory to that of all humans, it seems feasible that there might be some kind of “alien” that has a more complete understanding of physics than we do. In short, what appears as quantum mechanical randomness to us is actually just a subset of a complex physical model that we have yet to discover. Albert Einstein spent the last half of his life trying to figure out the model behind quantum mechanics, and was a firm believer in the idea that “God does not play with dice”. Because the “alien” has complete knowledge over our trajectory, s/he also has complete power over us in the same way we have complete knowledge and power over the baseball. This alien would thus be godlike relative to us.
After writing this, I don’t think it is a proof of God, but rather a disproof of the atheistic belief. After all, something had to throw the baseball to get it moving, just like something or someone had to create our universe to get it in motion."
~B.R.

Thought shared.  I'm still toying with the ideas ... thanks for the fun B.

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
~C.S. Lewis
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."  also ~C.S.Lewis