What
this law will and does do, is to keep science from wasting so much of its valuable
time in speculating on the impossible, the imagined and the false claims of
those who spend their lives trying to persuade us to stop thinking and to start
believing in these creation claims. They make a darn good living doing it.
Thom’s Law will also free science from the concept of the Big Bang. It will
enable science to concentrate on the true beginnings of all universes and not
just try to find a recent (sixteen billion years or so) single scientific
beginning for our universe or for all of them.
Thom’s
Law opens the door to the possibility that there is no such thing as a single
event (a singularity). This opens the door to the possibility that space
contains hundreds if not millions of universes. Every thing in nature seems to
have a life span and I conclude, so too do universes have a life span (a birth,
a life, a death - and then a rebirth.)
From
Thom’s Law one can postulate no single beginning for our present material
universe. My conclusion is that we are the waste of a former universe, or of
another dimension. My observations conclude that Nature wastes nothing. Rather
“that” is transformed into “this.” From this law, one can postulate that: what
is, has been and will be. The Ancients said it like this. “There is nothing new
under the sun.” I would like to stretch that a bit and say; “There is nothing
new in space or time. The present is always in the middle of Eternity, which
runs both ways.
Something
else needs to be said about Nothing. Science cannot even Conceive of Nothing
and I conclude it never can. Even in the most stringent vacuum, there are
particles of energy that appear and disappear. Positive and negative charges
appear, attract one another and on contact, they Seem to annihilate one
another. There seems no reason to preclude all of space and time from having
this same experience. Theoretically, under certain conditions, these energy
particles can clump together and this produces energy that under certain
theoretical conditions can become stable (or become matter).
We
cannot even postulate a time or place when or where there was Nothing. Further,
there is no scientific need to conceive of, or to postulate Nothing. What we
need is more in depth knowledge and understanding of How energy becomes matter.
We are doing pretty well at learning how to turn matter back into energy (I am
sad to say).
The
last defense believers have, is to get us to believe that the whole universe
came into being as a result of Intelligence, that by will alone, created
everything. That includes galaxies, suns, planets, the elements, man,
cockroaches, trees, viruses and what have you.
They
claim this being, they call God, had no beginning. That fits Thom's Law.
However, it does Not fit their Own description of one of their God's
attributes. They claims God Coexisted with Nothing or Preexisted Nothing. Now,
you cannot have it both ways. If their God existed, that is Something. If he
had power that is Something. If a God could even think, that is Something.
If
God created everything, then did he create himself? If so, out of what did he
create himself? How could God create himself if he were not himself to begin
with? How could both God and the Knowledge to create himself come from nothing?
If
God had All Knowledge (another attribute), where did he get it? Knowledge is
the result of experience, of doing, of seeing and of thinking. How did God
Learn anything or Do anything and with What did he do it? What did he see if
there was Nothing to see? What and how did he think when there was Nothing
about which to think? One can only Think about something he has seen, heard or
done, based on his own knowledge and experience. Where did God get his
knowledge and experience?
To
say that before anything existed, a God existed, is an oxymoron. Such a
statement can neither be understood nor conceived by our minds. It cannot
possibly be true and here is why. If a God existed, then that God must have
some attributes and some properties and that is Something. And Something is not
Nothing. Since the universe could not possibly have come from Nothing then both
God And our universe must have come from Something else that was Not a God.
Thom's
Law does not negate any fact of science from the study of viruses, atoms, or
quarks, to the theories of the Big Bang. It negates only those unfounded claims
of believers who say their God came from Nothing, or coexisted with Nothing.
So
even a God (which is something) could not be produced by Nothing. Therefore, if
a God came into being, he must have come out of something. The only something
that exists now and has always existed is that of energy and/or matter in all
of its various forms. So, any God (or anything else) must have been, or must
be, the Product of something. Everything that is Must be a product of energy
and/or matter, because it Cannot be a product of Nothing.
Now
that is strike one against the Christians who say that a God preexisted
Nothing. Or, as some say, a God coexisted with Nothing. That is, while there
was Nothing, there was also a God. (Unless, of course, you wish to claim that
God is nothing. I could accept that claim, but then you would not be here!) You
cannot have a God (which is Something) and say that before him, there was
Nothing. If you say, in the beginning there was God, you must decide how he got
to be God when there was Nothing to produce him, to train him, or to challenge
him. You must either start with a God (and that which produced him), which is
Something, or you must start with Nothing. And if you start with Nothing there
would still be Nothing. For sure, you cannot have it both ways. If there is a
God, he is Something and Something cannot and could not come out of Nothing.
Strike
two says, since there was Something that must have predated a God, God could
not have created everything. God could not have created himself if he was not
himself to start with. God himself (herself or it) would have to be Developed
from something that was Not a God. God is claimed to have knowledge and a good
and just character (more attributes). Knowledge and character must be
developed. It cannot be decreed. It cannot be magically waved into existence.
Knowledge and character are the products of life and living. They are the
product of making wise and foolish choices. They are a product of Growth.
Did
a God have all knowledge (an attribute) enough to create (or make) a universe?
Where did he develop that knowledge? It is inconceivable that a God simply
sneezed and the universe came into being. I don't think even the Christians
would believe that. By using these facts and under the Christian’s concept of
the potter destroying one pot in order to make a new one, our universe maybe
the waste product of a former failed experiment by God.
To
have the knowledge to create, or even to make a universe, God must have had
some prior experience, some development, some trials and errors in how and why
this worked and that did not. Also, the Christians allocate lots of other
wonderful attributes to their God. God is all-good. God is all-great. God is
all-just. God is all-wise. God is all-knowing. God is all-present - everywhere.
God is all-powerful and so forth.
That
is, the Christians give God a good, moral and powerful character. Now character
cannot be developed in a vacuum. Character must be developed by trial and
error. Character must be developed by finding out what is good and what works.
To do this one must also find out what is bad and does not work. Character must
always answer the question, "Why?" in order to develop. Character is
a Growth process.
Therefore,
there must have been other individuals and intelligence with whom God could
interact in order to develop a good character. There must be at least a family
of them. God is not and could not be alone. Other intelligence demands some
type of setting in which they could interact. They must have a place, a home of
sorts. So, we now must allow God to have at least a family, a home and a
setting, or a place of operating, in order to develop his character.
Was
Dizzy Dean a great baseball pitcher? How did he get to be so good? Christians
talk as though God is the greatest baseball pitcher in the universe, but they
do not allow him a batter or a catcher, much less a team. So that is strike two
against a creator God being by Himself and at the same time having both a good
character and ultimate scientific knowledge. God could Not decree himself a
good character, or vast scientific knowledge. He would not know what was good,
or what to decree. He must have developed it.
In
addition to this, God talked! How could a God language develop without other
like beings with whom to communicate? Come on now! Think about it!
Next,
we come to strike three. If there was Something out of which God came, then
there was already material available to Make a universe. That is, God could not
possibly have come out of Nothing, therefore, he could not have created the
universe. Could he have made it?
There
are those Christians who say (in spite of Thom's law) that God did come out of
Nothing. I have some questions. How could God create himself if he was not
himself to begin with? God could not have created himself. Something else must
have made God. Yet you say, there was only Nothing that could have done it?
Is
God supposed to be greater than the universe? The Jews and Christians say,
"Yes." Then why didn't Nothing make something smaller or less
significant than a God in its first effort at designing? Why didn't Nothing
stumble upon something simple first? How would Nothing have the wisdom, or
material, or energy to make something more important and more complex than
itself, more important and complex than the whole universe? Why didn't Nothing
make the universe first and then make a God? (Because it couldn’t!)
How
did Nothing make a God when it had not yet discovered how to make the hydrogen
atom? The effort of making a God would have challenged all the resources of
Nothing, which resources of course, are zero. Hydrogen atoms would not have
strained the efforts, knowledge and power of Nothing nearly as much as making
something greater than the universe.
Did
you know that believers in all ages have created gods? Even today, men create
gods! They make lots of gods using only the twenty-six letters of the English
alphabet.
Now
it is a fact, you cannot put a strain on zero. You can multiply it. You can
divide it. You can add it. You can kick zero around, abuse it, smash it, cast
it aside and guess what? It is still a perfect zero. So, I do here by declare
Zero to be the only perfect number in the universe. Nothing you can do to it
changes the value of zero. It is always and forever - Zero. You just cannot get
anything out of zero except zero. And Nothing is zero. And zero is
"Nothing.” A God did not and could not come out of Zero.
So,
the Christian concept of a Creator God goes down on a called strike three. From
now on, the creator God must take his seat on the bench next to the rest of the
religious gods who struck out. A God (or anything else) could not preexist that
from which he came. He could not create himself. He could not create the
universe without vast knowledge that he must learn by trial and error. He could
not learn without other intelligence with whom to interact. He could not create
the universe from nothing when energy/matter was already available and working
to arrange its own self. The Creator God strikes out.
We have
moved from the impossible Christian oxymoron concept of a Creator God, to a
Jewish Maker God concept that is more in keeping with our comprehension and
understanding. But is this new God view valid? Did any God make the universe?
Did the maker God sneeze and the universe came into being? Did he remark in his
God language (to others), "Well, by Me! Look at That! What have I wrought?
I think I will name it, The Universe." No! I think not!
So, we must
again face the need of vast knowledge. And to this we must also add “Purpose!”
What could be the purpose of a God making a universe? What possibly could be
the purpose? Did God really need a toy to play with? What do the Jews and
Christians have to say about this?
Both the
Jews and the Christians tell us that God does not need anything or anyone to
make him satisfied. We are told that God is self-sufficient. He is happy with
himself. God is altogether perfect. We are told God is the same yesterday,
today and forever. Yet, according to the writers of the holy book, we find God
was Not satisfied. He was not self-sufficient, nor happy. God was lonesome, so
he made at least a son and a ghost to keep him company. He also made his chess
and game opponent - that other God the Devil (Lucifer).
According
to the Bible, God Did need and want a toy to play with, so he made the universe
and plays with it daily (according to the believers). Could it be that the
universe and especially the earth, is the game board upon which God and the
Devil (that other God) play their games? Do they congratulate each other on
wise moves? Do they wager on the outcome of the games? Does God ever lose? What
kind of game would it be if God created an opponent who always loses? Even a
God would not cheat like that - would he?
But
God does not face his opponent, the Devil, alone. No! He has lots of advice on
what moves to make. This advice is rendered daily (sometimes five times a day)
by those who have appointed themselves as "God’s Gaming Advisors."
These advisors call themselves Believers and proceed to advise and tell God
what to do about life, the world and the universe. They call this strategic
advice making - Prayer.
Daily, and even hourly, God is
bathed in the fervent prayers of the faithful believers. God seems to depend on
these daily instructions and prayers to help him outline his vague work and
play schedule. Without these constant instructions on how to conduct his
business, play his games and run his universe, God would be at a loss to know
if he should heal Aunt Mary or not. Without this advise, God would not know
which team to let win the game (or the boxing match, or the war).
Does God
depend upon these daily polls from the snow white, granite minds to tell him
what to do? Do the Christians really think God is the president of a democracy
and daily waits for a consensus of public opinion before he knows what to do?
Is it not possible God could do good, right and just things on his own without
the guidance of the Christians and Jews? Am I getting this right?
These snow
white, granite minds believe God must have a consensus of public opinion, or
else he might just do the wrong thing and let Aunt Mary die. Or worst of all,
God might just do nothing at all. But keep in mind God is not lazy. He just
needs some guidance. So, God does stay busy because he gets a multitude of
assignments. And let us not forget the many chores God must run for the granite
minds.
There
is a problem though. All of God's earthly advisors have less than a hundred
years experience in the profession of "God Advisor" and certainly no
more as "Divine Chore Supervisor.” Now, this worries me! I am afraid they
will misinform God. When God finds out he has been betrayed and led astray by
his advisors on earth, he might decide to get rid of them (called the rapture).
He might even clean the game board and in so doing decide to rid the earth of
All earthlings (called apocalypse). We are told he almost did this once in the
past (called the flood). Let us not provoke him into doing that again. I plead
with all of you advisors, Please! Let God run the world by himself and play his
games without any advice from you! Let him make his own mistakes so we will not
All be held liable.
About thirty
years ago, God and I worked out an agreement. I promised I would trust God and
let him run his world in his own wisdom. God also decided to let me be my own
man and use my own wisdom. We are both very happy with the arrangement -
especially God.
Why don't
you make a similar agreement? It takes some of the daily pressure off of God.
It allows God to use his Own wisdom. It frees your mind and takes away the fear
of the future. I live an honest life and let the future do with me as it sees
fit. Whether you know it or not, the same will happen to you. Besides, a good
God must love people who search for truth, who learn to use their minds that
nature has graciously given us. Did you know any good and just God must Love
Atheists? Did you know a just God must be very disappointed in those who refuse
to pursue truth, who refuses to look at Both sides of these important matters?
Could it be that God will switch the nameplates of hell and heaven? It’s a
thought.
There is
something else here that bothers me. The snow white, granite minds have assumed
divine prerogative and appointed themselves spies, scouts and monitors For God.
They propose to seek out and identify all the enemies of their Almighty,
Creator God. They then inform God who his enemies really Are. When God's
justice is not swift and harsh on these newly invented enemies, the granite
minds assume the divine prerogative of judge, jury, and executioner and
especially do they love to judge and execute. This is called “doing God’s
work.” I guess if God paid more attention to things on earth, the believers
would have nothing left to do.
These
Christians, who have classified Atheists as God's worst enemies, are at a loss
why so many smart former religious people become Atheists and yet live moral
lives that are the envy of Christians. Maybe it is the Atheists who are
actually doing God’s work.
The granite
minds think God's patience is a Vice. They do! They are afraid God will not be
as expeditious and harsh in his judgment upon his enemies as they will. So,
they do God's work. Thus, we have doctors shot, clinics burned, political lies
told, honest people harassed, religious lies told, prohibitions enacted, social
lies told on minorities, boycotts of business, crusades against political and
religious figures, ethnic cleansing, wars of conquest and ballot boxes stuffed.
These granite minds tell us they are God's people, his front line troops. They
tell us they have the Truth and we should believe the same myths they do. We
are told we should think and act like they do.
I
am sorry granite minds. I am neither that ignorant, nor that evil. I am not
that religious. I have moral standards that keep me from harming my neighbor
just because he is different from me. I have morals that keep me from believing
that any God could be as cruel, base and juvenile as the granite minds insist
that their God is. I have morals that keep me from telling lies to others and
insisting that the lies are the truth. If there is a God, I know he must be
Just. A Just God could not cast a person into torment for all eternity simply
because he could not believe the unbelievable, immoral and impossible claims
made by the Holy Bible and the Holy Men.
No
Just or Good God ever thirsted for sheep's blood, man's blood, nor did he
thirst for the blood of his own kin. That is Barbaric! That is simply Unbelievable!
According
to the believers, this Creator God is still playing with his toys. God whips up
rain at man's request. He removes mountains, throws lightening bolts, breathes
hurricanes into destructive existence, stomps earthquakes into being and guides
tornados along their destructive paths. He moves comets, asteroids and stars
around. Many other unbelievable and immoral actions are attributed to God by
believers who claim God dabbles in the daily affairs of men and nations. God
Does play with his toys, according to the Believers.
Of course,
according to the believers, God does this to impress and punish nonbelievers.
He is so bent on attracting the attention of nonbelievers, he is willing to
destroy the just together with the unjust, the good with the bad. He does this
in order to punish the nonbelievers for their sin of Honest Doubt and Logical
Thinking. Some say he sent the earthquake to San Francisco because of some
immorality of a few citizens in that place. And he plans to do the same to
Orlando, Florida. You remember they let some gay people have a parade. The
snow-white granite minds duly informed us of this terrible, terrible religious
sin. They then instructed God to get on with the destruction. Didn't you notice
the fires and hurricanes last year? God was punishing the whole state of
Florida to get back at Orlando for letting gays march for about an hour.
The whole
concept of a God making and running the universe boils down to this question.
Is the universe religious? Is it a toy of the Almighty? Does the universe run
at the whim and arbitration of a Creator or Maker God? Can mere man tell God
what to do about the Iraqis or the Irish? Does this Maker God send the winning
numbers when we pray? Does the Almighty run chores and errands for the granite
minds? No! Certainly not! The universe is natural and runs by the inherent laws
of matter, energy and nature. Yes it does!
A SECOND CLOSE SCIENTIFIC LOOK AT CREATIONISM
The
Church and its believers are seeking to make this myth of creation into a
scientific explanation for the origin of the universe. Where did they get their
facts? They get their facts from Revelations found in their Holy Bible, from
their dreams and from their heads. However, they tell us, they Do Not get their
facts from the Bible. We are told they get their facts from observation, from
logic and from scientific study. Let us find out the truth about this matter.
Look how indefensible is the Bible teachings of the early earth and early man.
The
creationists tell us God created this world Perfect and because of man's sin
and disbelief, God turned his “behind” toward man and Cursed both mankind (his
children) and his own creation (his own perfection). What kind of a God IS
this? Did God get peeved? And if so, Why? Did God not Know this would happen?
If not, Why not? Is God's knowledge and foresight so limited? What kind of God
is he anyway? If God knew before hand that man would disbelieve if he had No
Proof and No Evidence of God's claim of creation, why didn't God at least leave
man some kind of Clue? That way honest thinking people would at least have had
a slight chance to give God the benefit of the doubt and Try to believe? But he
didn't do that.
Did
it ever occur to you that maybe God Did Not Want Man To Believe? Instead, maybe
he wanted man to Think. Maybe God is Proud of the fact that some men used their
brains to solve these problems! If God knows anything, he knows that even a God
cannot create good character and sound clear thinking minds. Maybe God knew
that the Only way to develop good character, wisdom and understanding was to
push man out on a limb and make him think and act on his own. Surely, God knew
mistakes would be made and that mistakes are the best teachers in the universe.
Maybe
God gave man a glimpse of his perfect world, then took it away, and said,
"Now you see that it can be done. Go make your own good and perfect world.
You will enjoy it, care for it and appreciate it more if You make it." So,
what happened to God's perfection? We are told that God cursed his own
perfection and changed (cursed) the world into what we now have. In other words,
God gave and God took away. (That is the funeral phrasing of this Biblical
Indian giver concept.) I apologize to the Indians. It was the white man who
took away without giving.
We
are told by the Bible and by the creationists that God created man Innocent.
What does that mean? It means God created man Dumb and Ignorant. Now that is
all right if there is a plan to place some information, software and data into
that innocent mind so it will have some basis for accepting true information
and rejecting false information. But God Did Not do that. Instead, God
threatened man. God said that if man sought to put anything into his mind by
way of knowledge (learn from the Tree Of Knowledge) God Would Kill Him! Are the
wages of knowledge - death? I ask again, what kind of God is this anyway? So
God left man Unfinished!
But
God made a mistake! Yes, he did! Of course, he might have done it on purpose.
He might have planned it the way it happened to challenge mankind to learn to
Think. But it seems he did forget something. He forgot about that other God,
you know, Lucifer (The Morning Star). It grieved Lucifer that Jehovah, for
whatever reason, had not finished his creation. So, Lucifer sat under the Tree
Of Knowledge and one day Eve came by and Lucifer began to teach Eve about life,
the world, civilization and the rest of knowledge. Then Eve began to understand
and explained it to Adam. So, they both sat under the Tree and got a university
education. They found out that Jehovah had lied to them. Knowledge does Not kill.
In fact, it does just the opposite. Knowledge produces excitement and a quest
for life. Knowledge solves the mysteries that plague the questing mind of
mankind.
Knowledge
makes life good. Knowledge makes life worth living. Knowledge helps complete
the process God began by making man into the intelligent being that he should
be. Knowledge extends and completes the process of creation (if you want to
call it that).
On
the other hand, maybe what we are seeing in the Bible is the Divine version of
the good cop and the bad cop. Maybe all this was all planned in order to make
man Learn To Think. Maybe all this is humorous and entertaining to the Gods.
Are Jehovah and Lucifer right now sitting down together drinking the nectar of
the gods, watching this creation debate and betting on the out come? Are they
having their Celestial Jovialities together? Maybe they approve. I have an idea
that they are betting on the Atheists.
Since
that time (of this creation story) man has cataloged himself into two opposite
camps. There are those who seek knowledge by studying hard and long under the
Tree of Knowledge symbolized by the Snake of Wisdom in it. Then, there are
those who are lazy and gullible and prefer to Believe rather than know. The
learners are called Scientists, Atheists, Illuminati, Scholars, unbelievers,
philosophers and such. Those who are capable of believing the unbelievable are
called religious, Christians, Muslims, mystics and such. They are also called
Creationists.
Briefly
and simply, here is how their observations and logic work. "See how
orderly the universe is. Therefore, no one but God could be responsible for it.
See the tree. See how beautiful the tree is. No one else could make a tree.
Therefore, God made the tree. See Woody the woodpecker. Disney did not make
him, God did. See how wonderful the human body is; see how all the parts work
together. See how complicated the cells of the body are. Man could not make so
much as a big toe, nor construct a single cell. See how the anthropologists
cannot find early man. Therefore, God made man. If God made all this, he must
have made the earth and the universe. A watch needs a watchmaker. A universe
needs a universe maker."
How
about, a rock needs a rock maker, a cloud needs a cloud maker, a river needs a
river maker, a forest needs a forest maker, or a rainbow needs a rainbow maker?
Does wind need a heavy breathing God? Or, will a simple bean eating priest,
rabbi or minister do just as well?
In
total disregard of the evidence of our anthropologists, our geologists, our
archeologists, our cosmologists, our astronomers, our zoologists and our
biologists, the believer says, "Evidence of man's evolution is missing,
therefore, man had to come upon this earth suddenly. Only God could make man
and place him on this earth in such a sudden manner."
Well
now, that is certainly very scientific, if one has not been exposed to the
findings of our present day science. And is it not More possible that another
intelligent race (instead of a God) played with our genes? Are we not now doing
this ourselves? If a person were of average intelligence, he would like to
pursue this claim beyond the observations and logic of the believer. He would
like to find out the Truth about the matter.
Where
did this claim first originate? Who was the first great scientist to make this
incredible knowledge and truth known to us? How do we know God created the
universe? In fact, how could we possibly know, even if God Did create
everything?
Of
course, there is no claim God created everything from nothing Except in the
Christian Bible. Many religions claim their Gods Made the universe from
available materials.
There
is no claim any God Created or Made anything outside of the holy books and
myths of various religions. So to start, all the scientific information on the
beginning, involving a god, comes from the religions, from holy books and from
claimed revelations that happened in someone's head. Is it possible the
preachers, rabbis, prophets and priests know more science than do our scientists?
The Christian Bible is the Only place where the Original claim is made that a
God is said to have created everything out of Nothing.
How
do believers Know God created everything? The first words in the Jewish Old
Testament say:
"In
beginning, the Gods Made the heaven and the earth."
The
Christian Bible Changed that to read: "In The beginning, God Created the
heaven and the earth."
Notice:
several Gods were changed to One God. A definitive "The" was placed
in the text to replace the general statement, "In starting the story, or
in beginning" - like, "Once upon a time." Then Made was Changed
to “Created.”
Now
where did the Hebrew writer of Genesis get His information, that the Gods Made
the earth? Was he there? Did he see it happen? No! Was it revealed to him
through some supernatural vision or dream? No! It was Copied from the Persians
in Babylon, from Their sacred myths.
Oh!
But I thought the Persians and Babylonians were pagan. That is, I thought the
Jews and later the Christians were spoken to by God and God condemned the
religions of the Persians and Babylonians. The Bible says God did say that. So,
the creation story is Copied from a Condemned Pagan religion. Otherwise, we
would Not know God, or the Gods, made or created everything. Isn't that
something to think about? And that is the way it is.
Of
course, even pagans can be right sometimes, about some things, so we must
investigate. How did God reveal to the Persians that he made everything? Did he
speak face to face? Did he just speak to the writer in his head? It seems the
writer would record such a major miraculous contact with God. The writers
(Jewish and Persian) do not claim Anywhere that God revealed these wonderful
things to them. They merely write as though they were sitting in the grandstand
recording history, which they observed. Moses even records his own death. I
wonder if he wrote his account before he died, or after he died?
The
"fact" that God, or the Gods, made or created everything, is the
greatest event in the history of the universe. Yet, neither God, nor man, tells
us how the writers (the religious reporters) received this most important
information. Even the conversations that God had with Himself are recorded -
word for word. And God said, "Let there be light." Admittedly, God
was not much of a conversationalist, or many of his words were too irrelevant
and insignificant to be recorded. Can someone tell us to whom God was talking?
To the religious press reporter? How did the reporter know Exactly what God said?
And
how did a God language develop if there was no one with whom to talk?
Now
certainly, the reporter does not tell us everything. He never mentions the
mistakes that God made during the creation. He doesn't tell us about the
duckbill platypus, you know the little animal where God got the beaver tail in
front instead of in the back and got confused and gave it duck feet instead of
mammal feet. The reporter doesn't tell us which day God created cancer, black
plague, smallpox or mumps. Neither does he tell us on what day God created
flies, mosquitoes, lice, cockroaches and fleas. All in all, that was Not a real
good day for God (or man).
The
reporter doesn't tell us why man was given a good brain and then forbidden to
use it by a God who wanted man to believe and not use his brain, instead of
thinking and using his brain. He doesn't tell us when God created his Son and
his Holy Spirit, nor why he created the Devil.
There
are many more things that scientists do not know than there are things, which
they do know. However, scientists know enough to realize, given eternal
energy/matter and plenty of time, everything would eventually be more or less,
like it is today. Given energy/matter and the fact it attracts other particles
of energy/matter, by and by, galaxies would form, suns would form, live then
explode or die.
Planets
and other suns form from the exploded suns and gases. Planets of certain sizes
and certain distances from their suns produce gases, chemicals and conditions
necessary for the formation of early physical self-replicating solid crystal
forms. Then, liquid crystals form. Finally, self-motivated, liquid crystal
viral life forms. It moves and seeks to feed and reproduce itself. From them
come higher and more refined life forms, until eventually, intelligent life
evolves.
In
the infancy of that intelligent life, they would argue over where they came
from. Religious claims would be made and some God would probably be the answer.
Later intelligent people would discover the scientific method of investigating
the things around them. They would begin to submit the past claims and
superstitions to scientific scrutiny. Eventually, they would discover some of
the principles of energy/matter and rightly conclude that the religious claims
were both unnecessary and false.
It
is a Religious claim that a God interjected himself between the cause and
effect of energy/matter and created the universe in a short period of time. The
claim is based on faith, on revelation, on belief in miracles and on scientific
ignorance. Creation is a statement based on the "Authority" of Gods
and their holy books.
The
whole concept of Creation is based on belief in miracles! Only those who
believe that God dabbles into the daily lives of men and nations can believe in
the miracle of creation.
Men,
always of a curious mind, asked the question, "Where did I come
from?" They asked the right question, but they asked the wrong people.
Instead of asking their wise men and thinkers, they asked their religious
leaders. Of course, in those days, there was little to no science and the
question could not be answered from the standpoint of knowledge. So, I guess,
they did the best they could do in their day and age. But religious leaders
seem always to claim they can answer any question because they get the answers
from God. Is that True? If so, science is a waste of time, money and manpower.
Since we do have science, we are a secular nation, not a Christian nation.
Scientifically,
we now know there is no space for anything that seeks to interrupt itself
between the causes of the past and their effects and results. No scientific
room is available for it. There can be no explanation for it. But best of all,
there is no scientific need for it. Creation, as a concept, is totally
Unnecessary even as a God is unnecessary in order for women to have children.
It would happen regardless. Given time (and that is the most common commodity
in the universe along with space), all that is, would be anyway.
Our
scientists in all branches contribute to the understanding of how our earth and
sun came into being by natural causes and natural means. Besides, there is no
known way whereby anyone could Know that creation is a reality. There is not
even a Clue to support the claim of creation. It cannot be proven. It must be
taken on Faith. Like all miracle claims, it can only be believed or doubted.
Creation Must be revealed. If God revealed it, what proof did he leave us?
Contrary
to religious teachings, we know that there is no singularity (no one time
happening) in Nature, nor is there even any Hint of something happening only
once. What Nature does today, she will do tomorrow and she also did it
yesterday. With that understanding, it seems to me that in space and time,
there must be more universes coming into being. In addition to that, I would
not be surprised if our science one day discovers that more new material is
being poured into the space and time of our own universe and some maybe leaving
- even as I write this.
If
creation were indeed true, how could we possibly know it as a fact? How could
we account for the fossil records of the progressive life forms from early
single cell animals to our present complex animals? If God did create
everything not so long ago (as the religious tell us) and wanted us to know it,
why did he create the Lie of the fossils? Do creationists understand and accept
the truth, that if creation were a fact and happened not so long ago, then God
is a Liar for placing the ancient fossils in the ground?
Creation
would leave no telltale signs. There would be no witnesses. If someone told us
about creation, we could only believe it or doubt it. When we found out,
through science, that creation was not at all necessary, we would certainly
doubt the story. We would honestly doubt the intelligence and patience of a God
who just could not wait for it to happen on its own. We would doubt that a God
went into competition with the natural working of nature. Why would a God who
had all eternity, be in such a hurry? Why would he do in seven days (or
periods) what nature would do anyway in seven or so billion years?
In
the other religious holy books and myths, there is No claim that a God created
something out of nothing. All the other religions claim their Gods took
material that was available and Made the earth from those materials. The
Christian religion stands alone today in its claim that a God created
everything and that he did it out of nothing. I suppose such a claim implies
God himself came out of nothing and must be made from nothing. Does that mean,
he is still nothing? When this controversy is over, will he not return to
nothing? From nothing he came and to nothing he will return. It makes sense.
It
is a fact, the Hebrew Testament Does Not claim God or Gods Created the heaven
and earth out of nothing. The Christians used the corrupt and false translation
of the Greek Septuagint version of the Jewish Testament. The Hebrew word in
their Testament is the word for "Made.” The Greek speaking Jews, who
translated the Hebrew Testament into Greek, used the Greek word for
"create " instead of the Greek word for "made." To
"create" means to make from nothing. While "made,” means to form
the material at hand into something else.
So
the only information we have about a creation came to us by way of a False
translation - a mistake - a lie. Think about it!
Did
God make his mistake in the Jewish Testament? Or, did man make his mistake in
the Christian’s Version of the translation of that Old Testament book? Take
your pick.
How
about that? The only physical or religious leg creationists have to stand on -
is a Lie!
The
Christians are always asking the question, "Who made man?" Their own
answer of course, is God. But when the non-Christian asks in return, "Who
made God?" they say, "No one. God always existed." That God
always existed, is more absurd than eternal matter, and of course, will not do.
The evidence indicates energy/matter has always existed and cannot be created
or destroyed, but it may be able to move about and take forms that our science
has not yet discovered. This question is being pursued in both macrophysics and
microphysics. So far, there is no indication that energy/matter is not truly
eternal.
If
God does exist, or did exist, that would have to be some form of energy/matter.
The Christians claim God is Not made up of Any-Thing. They claim he is made out
of spirit-stuff. If you ask them what spirit-stuff is, they will tell you,
"It is non-energy/matter." Don't ask, How do you know? So, is
spirit-stuff nothing, or something, or not something? What?
All
I know about that are made up out of non-energy/matter are "ideas"
and "thoughts." Even thoughts and ideas cannot be separated from the
real material universe that conceived them. So I do conclude, the Christians have
led us, in a round about way to discover what God is made of. God is made out
of "ideas" and "thoughts" that came into the heads of some
ancient religious leaders. They were trying to explain some very complicated
questions out of their scientific ignorance. With their own
"thoughts," they created God out of nothing in their own image.
This
God (made out of nothing) has been very active in giving men revelations about
everything in the universe. Even though this God is very vocal, he is very shy
about his personal appearance. It is claimed Adam and Eve walked with this God
every evening. But from that time on, God has been very reluctant to show
himself. The Bible tells us, Abraham barbecued a goat for God and he and God
talked face to face while they ate the barbecue under a tree. It is written,
that God let Moses see his rump only. (EX. 33:21). Earlier, seventy-two people,
with Moses, actually saw God with their own eyes and God had hands and feet and
looked like a man (EX.24:9).
Then,
in the Christian (New) Testament, Jesus in the Bible definitely called Adam,
Moses and Abraham Liars.
This
truth, which is claimed to come from Jesus said, "No man has seen God at
any time." (Jn.1:18). My opinion is, Jesus (or whoever wrote these words)
was right. Of course, it is this same Mistaken Moses who is claimed to have
written that God created (or made) the heaven and earth. Now, if Jesus didn't
believe Moses was telling the truth, why should I? Why should you?
There
are those liberal Christians who say, "Well, God did not Create the world,
but he did Make the world. He just used the natural, physical and evolutionary
forces to make everything." In essences then, what they are saying is, the
Bible is in error. All God did was sit back in the grandstand (with the
religious reporters no doubt) and watch evolution take its course. They say the
term "day" should be translated or understood as "age" or
"eon.” So, for six eons, God sat (or stood) there and watched evolution at
work. Probably, that took at least five or six billions of years. No wonder God
was tired and rested during the seventh eon. I take it; we are still in the
seventh eon so God must still be resting. Tell me, how does God rest? Could the
trouble in the world be because God is still asleep? It's a thought!
The
creation story is a Myth. It is religion. It bears about as much relationship
to science and truth as believing does to thinking. They are opposites.
Creation is fiction. Evolution is fact. One can only believe or doubt creation.
One can study evolution. One can manipulate evolution. One can watch it at
work.
Men
and other animals still carry vestigial organs and parts that evolution has not
yet totally dissolved. All men still have a rudimental tail at the end of their
spine. About one out of every three hundred thousand have a visible growing
tail that now is surgically removed in infancy (usually). (I have personally
seen one adult case of this tail on a friend and he could wag it.)
When
food was harder to come by and man ate more vegetation than he did meat, he not
only had a tail, he also had an extra stomach. That stomach was to wring the
last bit of nourishment from seeds, nuts, bones and small hard bits of food. As
man became better fed and began to eat meat, there was less and less need for
such rigid economy from the digestive system. So the second stomach gradually
became smaller and smaller. Today we call that stomach, the appendix. If God
did create man, why did he give him a useless and trouble causing body part
called the appendix?
Many
fossilized human remains and artifacts have been found that are at least one
million years old. Some artifacts have been found in stone, which is over a
billion years old. (Don’t blame me. I am just reporting it.) Creationists seek
desperately to dispute the methods used to date these finds. Fossilized human
footprints have been found that were made inside of freshly made dinosaur
tracts and you know how old that is. This is not a hoax and qualified
geologists, archeologists and anthropologists have traced human footprints
under freshly quarried stone. This places man back some millions of years. Man
has been here on earth (as modern man) for a long time.
Though
man is changing, he has not and did not evolve in recent times. He has existed
side by side with lower forms of man for millions of years. Hopefully, his
ability to think will develop more. Belief is some day to become vestigial in
the same way as the tail and extra stomach. One-day superstition and religion
will give way to Honest Clear Thinking and scientific research. Then we will
All Be Atheists!
We
can give the evolution of man a helping hand by using our minds and especially
by teaching our children to think and use their minds. If we fail to use our
minds, they may shrink like the eyes of cave bound fish, which have closed and
grown over. Evolution works backwards too. If we use our minds, they will
stretch and grow and become more human, more humane and more able to handle the
problems of life. If one doesn't use his mind, if he relies on believing
instead of thinking, his generations may lose their ability to think and become
dull, emotional persons, dependent on their religious and political authorities
to do their thinking for them and to describe truth and reality to them. Has
this not already happened and is it not happening now? Is that not Why people
believe in creation? They do not, and maybe, cannot, Honestly Think.
If
believers do not wake up, there may eventually be such a gap between the
thinkers and non-thinkers, that society will be separated into two classes. Who
then will be the leaders, thinkers and masters and who will be the followers
and servants? Believers are so easy to lead around, by religion, business and
by politics. Tell them some absurdity and without checking the facts, they
believe it, if the absurdity came from one of their accepted authorities. Tell
them the truth and Beg them to check it out! What will they do? They will ask
their authority to tell them what to think, or worse yet, what to believe. How
can they disregard their humanity and their mental abilities and continue to be
mental slaves? Wake up!
The
creation myth has nothing going for it except ignorance, belief and
superstition. Once man tried to answer all of the questions of life with the
answer, "God.” Only when man began to doubt such simplistic answers and
began to experiment and observe life, did he start finding the true answers.
Science has reduced the number of questions to which "God" could be
the only answer, down to a good approximation of zero.
At
this very moment, earths are being made from cosmic gas and debris. So are suns
and other bodies in the space of our observable universe. Some suns are even
now exploding. Some are dead and void. There is no reason to believe our earth
and sun began their existence in any way different from those other planets and
suns being formed today.
A
major portion of our earth was once a part of a large sun or star. There can be
no doubt about this fact. Earth is not capable of naturally producing the heavy
metals. The stars are where All our heavy metals come from. Earth is At Least a
second-generation planet (and may be a third or fourth generation one.) Earth
is made from recycled sun parts. Earth is a recycled planet. If God made the
earth, he had to first create a big sun and then he had to dip his hand into
this large sun and extract quite a bit of heavy metals to place into the center
of our earth. In fact, some of our heaviest metals can only be made during the
high heat and pressure of a super nova (exploding sun). He could have waited
until the sun exploded and then flew around and rounded up a few planets' worth
of heavy metals to place in the earth (and our other planets). How he could do
that, or why he would do that, I don't know. It would have happened anyway if
he left it alone.
But,
the Bible says he made the earth First and Then he made the sun and moon. He
made the stars and the rest of the universe on the fourth day. I suppose he
made our other planets on the same day he created the rest of the universe. The
creationists just do not know very much science. But belief is blind and does
not allow the Possibility of being wrong. Creation is a barbaric myth still
believed by the self deluded, who are capable of believing the unbelievable.
Some spend their whole life trying to prove that creation is true and our
science is wrong - and making money at it.
Not
more than a year ago (1987) I heard on the radio in North Carolina, a minister
of the old time gospel say, "God placed the fossils of monsters in the
earth to deceive those who did not have the spirit of God in them." He
said, "God did this to cripple the faith of those who believed their way
is better than God's way. By not believing God, the doubter will be cast into the
outer darkness where there is only wailing and gnashing of teeth." This
type of non-thinking is Creationism in its most blatant and revealing form. It
also claims that God is a Liar and deceiver for putting the fossils in the
ground.
Fundamentalist
Christians think so very small of their creator God. It is no wonder they think
he will run their chores for them and they can manipulate the Unknowable
Almighty with a simple magical obedience exercise called prayer. They even
decide who are God’s enemies, which they do For God. They consistently assume
divine prerogatives for themselves. They are rightly called Christians (little
anointed ones). They think They must punish God's enemies because God is so
impotent, he cannot do it himself. God can create a universe out of nothing,
but he cannot take care of his own enemies. How inconsistent! How dumb! How
disturbing! How useless!
Fundamentalists
do Not believe in an all-just and all-powerful God. They believe in a wimpy,
whining and whimsical God - and they Know it. That is what makes them so mean,
so bold and hurtful to humanity. It makes them so Hostile to the
"others." And that makes them hostile creationists. Think!
The
earth is only about five or so billion years old in its present form. Yet, we
see light or other radiation from about sixteen billion light years away. How
did God make the earth first (five or so billion years ago) and After that,
make the stars from which we now receive radiation. Some are fifteen or so
Billion Light Years Away? How was he able to get the light and radiation from
those distance stars to us at once, or in less than a fraction of the time that
it takes light and radiation to travel through space? Only believers and holy
men know the answer to that.
If
God made the earth five billion years ago and After that made the stars, how
could we possibly receive radiation from any star more than five billion light
years away? We simply could not. Besides, as time went on, we would encounter
the radiation and light from more and more stars as their light spanned the
distance and finally reached us. This doesn't happen. In addition, the heavy
elements in our earth had to be formed in some sun for more billions of years
while the metals were atomically and molecularly squeezed into their present elemental
forms. Then, that sun had to go nova (explode) to make the rest of our heavy
metals.
A
galaxy or star that we see today, sixteen billion light years away means this.
Earth, in its present form, is five billion years old (give or take a bit). If
we see star light and radiation today that is fifteen billion years old, then
at a minimum, that star had to be in existence at least ten billion years
Before the earth came into being. We look at that star and its radiation in the
spot where it Was fifteen billion years ago. It could be dead today, moved on
to another portion of the universe, or it could even have exploded and ceased
to exist ten or so billion years ago. Even a God could not have made earth
Before he made those distant stars and galaxies!
There
are those believers who tell us evolution is not science. They tell us that
modern science ignores creation and seeks only to prove evolution. Therefore,
evolution is not science because it does not seek the truth (that is, it
doesn't seek to Prove creationism). Let's look at that for a moment.
Science does not seek to prove anything.
Science
seeks to discover, to find out the truth about things. But, how did we get the
concept of creation that the Believers claim is true? Where was creation
discovered? Who discovered it? Please explain how the science of Christianity
works, how it investigates this problem and how it arrives at its conclusions.
Christians
believed in creation from 40 AD - 400 AD. Where was the science of Christianity
at that time? Where was their proof? Not only was there no proof, they didn't
think any proof was needed for any proclamation from their God, their religion,
or church. After 325 AD. Their New Holy Book declared creation was a fact and
that was good enough for them.
Christians
believed in creation in 800 AD. Where was their science and proof then? There
was none! Christians believed in creation in the 1600's AD. Where was the
science of Christianity and their proofs at that time? None! But our human
science was an infant at that time. Our scientists were being burned at the
stake, beheaded, tortured and imprisoned by the believers in creation (by the
scientists of the Christians).
Christians
continued to believe in creation in the 1800's, but they still had no Christian
science or proof. During the same period, Charles Darwin and others were
discovering how nature really worked and how one thing evolved from something
else. Christians believed in creation in the early nineteen hundreds, but there
was still no science work being done by the believers and of course, no proof.
Meanwhile, human science was busy cataloging, observing, studying, measuring,
discovering and beginning to understand how things happened - how things
evolved. Evolution not only happens slowly, it often happens in a catastrophic
manner.
Today,
human science watches suns, galaxies and planets being formed. They watch them
explode and die. Finding out how Nature works is the purpose of human science.
And how does nature work? Nature makes new things by evolving the old into the
new. Nature never wastes anything. What has the science of Christianity
discovered or done? Nothing whatever. It still only believes. Religious science
spends its time trying to discredit our science (kill the messenger) and seeks thus,
to prove their creation myth.
OUR SCIENCE HAS NEVER TRIED TO DEFEND EVOLUTION!
Rather,
science has tried to understand it. They have differed over aspects of it. Once
some of the principles of evolution were discovered by hard work, hard observation
and hard thinking, scientists have tried to utilize the understanding of it.
Science today is hard at work using the Principles of evolution to produce
better medicines, better vaccinations, better cows, pigs and horses, better
crops, better food supplies, better fuels, better pesticides and soon better
people. All of this helps produce a better life for all of us, even those who
still believe in creationism.
Where
is the science of Christianity today? What have they produced for the benefit
of mankind? They tell us creation IS science and that it is true. God did
create the world from nothing. The Clear Thinker says, show us your
experiments, your observations, your data and analysis. Show us how you arrived
at this truth that you try to teach us. Show us your proof.
And
what do they show us? You guessed it. They show us a tree, a woodpecker and the
Holy Bible. You must Believe! And what must we believe? We must have Belief In
The Holy Bible, which tells us about a God creating the universe! And don't
forget Jesus!
CREATIONISM IS NOT SCIENCE.
IT DOES NOT SEARCH FOR TRUTH!
Like
All beliefs and religions, creationism seeks Only to prove that its Belief is
true by Attacking those who say, "It Is Not True!" Science seeks to
find out what the truth really is concerning the question, "Where do we
come from?" Science seeks only to discover the truth. The truth is, the
evolution of our universe is a Fact. Creationism is false, a waste of time, a
deception and a smear on the good name of God. Even a beginner God would not
make light before he made the stars (the light sources). Neither would he give
man a brain and then punish him for using it to establish the truth about these
claims. Scientists and Clear Thinkers try to find out if the sloppy account of
creation in the Bible is true or false. The facts show the account to be false
- very false!
Creation
is the lazy, unthinking answer to a large number of specific scientific
questions and fields of observation. Some spend their whole adult life finding
out, understanding and testing some small single aspect of the development of
life, or of planets, or suns. Thank goodness, they honestly doubted the
simplistic answer "God" and decided to do their own investigating and
thinking. We should give thanks for their dedication!
The
Clear Thinker must conclude that the creation myth or story is simply another
non-thinking statement and Claim made by believers who get their answers from a
God by way of a divine revelation "in their heads.” Is creation fact or
fiction? It is fiction! Creationism is a Faith. It is a religious Belief. No
science supports this falsehood. No Truth supports it.
Everything
the Christians have told us has been proven false. Their doctrines are false.
Their religious sin claims are false. Their plans of salvation are false. Their
Bible is false. And now Creationism is the last desperate hope with which
religion tries to convince us that their religion is God given and that Jesus
saves. In the face of the facts of modern science, creationism has been weighed
in the scales of Honesty and Facts. Creationism is found to be totally lacking
one single truth, or even one single Clue upon which to stand. Creationism has
no bottom to stand on, no prop to lean on and no wings to fly.
One of the arguments of the creationists is, there is no way that what now is could be duplicated. And believe it or not, I agree with them. The reality of evolution is like this. I put 60 dimes in my pocket. I take them out one at a time and marked them with the number 1, then 2 and so on. Then I put them back in my pocket and do it all over again hoping, or trying, to pick out number 1 first, then number 2 and so on. The odds of success are too great to contemplate. But what, if by luck, I did it? Would that make me a God? Certainly not!
Things
are like they are, because that is the way they came out of the pocket of
evolution the first time.
If Anything could come into
being without a God, then Everything could!
You cannot produce something out of nothing!
Even God could not make himself if he were not himself to start with!
Creationism
is a very dead and disabled belief. Creation is just another claimed religious
revelation that came into the heads of some ancient priests who wanted to show
that they were the followers of the greatest God of all. Creation cannot be
studied or proven. One can only believe or doubt creation. Creation is a lie.
DO YOU BELIEVE? OR, CAN YOU THINK?
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