Is God mute?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nitro, Jul 2, 2015.

  1. 1. All souls are His sons!

    2. He didn't do the killing! Some of Us did!

    3. ...
     
    #271     Sep 21, 2015
  2. stu

    stu

    you're a monkey's uncle?
     
    #272     Sep 21, 2015
  3. Q http://www.thegodtheory.com/contents.htm

    Table of Contents
    The God Theory
    The Purpose-Guided Universe
    PREFACE
    INTRODUCTION
    CHAPTER 1. Personal Journey
    From Archabbey to Astrophysics
    Launching a Career
    Age of Discovery
    Return of the Astronomer-Priest
    CHAPTER 2: Asking Fundamental Questions
    The God Theory and Creation
    The God Theory, Karma, and the Golden Rule
    The God Theory and Reductionism
    CHAPTER 3: Explaining Creation
    Creation by Subtraction
    Polarity
    The God Theory and Consciousness
    CHAPTER 4: Reductionism and a Spiritual Worldview
    Superstrings and the Supernatural
    A Spiritual Worldview
    No Need for Intelligent Design
    CHAPTER 5: Explaining Consciousness
    Three Views of Consciousness
    Consciousness and Physiology
    The Brain as Filter
    The Primacy of Consciousness
    Opposite Perspectives
    "There Can Be No Evidence for Something That Is False"
    The Random, Unconscious, "Just-Right" Universe
    Inflation Theory
    CHAPTER 6: The Zero-Point Field
    The Casimir Force
    Zeroing in on the Zero-Point Field
    CHAPTER 7: Into the Void
    Deriving Newton's Postulate
    Inertia
    Inertial Reaction
    Defending the Theory
    A Boost from NASA
    CHAPTER 8: Following the Light
    The Light of Creation
    Kabbalah
    The Big Bang
    CHAPTER 9: God and the Theory of Everything
    A God Beyond Matter
    The Manifest God
    Asking God
    Ayin
    Creation As a Timeless Process
    Atomic Stability and the Universal Timekeeper
    CHAPTER 10: An Infinite Number of Universes
    A Universe of Consciousness
    Many Worlds and Quantum Mechanics
    CHAPTER 11: A Purposeful Universe
    Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge
    The God Theory, Christianity, and Humanism
    Final Thoughts
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
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    UQ
     
    #273     Sep 21, 2015
  4. stu

    stu

    Chapter 0.
    Omissions : The Problem of Infinite Regress
    To avoid the question begging every chapter.
     
    #274     Sep 21, 2015
  5. jem

    jem

    cuts both ways.
    current science can't tell us what happened either.
    its really beyond our comprehension at the moment since time and the laws of physics did not shape up until after the early moments of the big bang.

     
    #275     Sep 21, 2015
  6. Apparently I've had, till now, a very similar conviction about a/the Creator God. And (S)He is still alive! Haha - Depends on how to define!

    " http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ence-multiverse-revealed-time-cosmic-map.html

    Is our universe merely one of billions? Evidence of the existence of 'multiverse' revealed for the first time by cosmic map"
     
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    #276     Sep 22, 2015
  7. stu

    stu

    If it is beyond comprehension, you don't know what laws, what physics did or didn't exist at or before big bang. Beyond comprehension sits God of thunder. Beyond comprehension sits God of lightning. Beyond comprehension sits God of the universe.

    When things beyond comprehension and superstition start answering unanswered questions, the antidote is science.
     
    #277     Sep 22, 2015
  8. stu

    stu

    Einstein and Spinoza manifest God essentially as just another word for the universe itself.
     
    #278     Sep 22, 2015
  9. nitro

    nitro

    Albert Einstein quotes on "God"

    “Behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force is my religion. To that extent, I am in point of fact, religious.”
    [8]

    “Every scientist becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men.”[9]

    “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man.”[10]

    The divine reveals itself in the physical world.”[11]
    [This is why Einstein is more than just "God = Universe"] The devine reveals itself through the Universe.

    “My God created laws… His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking but by immutable laws.”[12]

    “I want to know how God created this world. I want to know his thoughts.”[13]

    “What I am really interested in knowing is whether God could have created the world in a different way.”[14]

    “This firm belief in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God.”[15]

    “My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit, …That superior reasoning power forms my idea of God.”[16]


    8]H.G. Kessler,The Diary of a Cosmopolitan(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p.322, quoted in Max Jammer,Einstein and Religion(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999), p.40.
    [9]A. Einstein to P. Wright 24 January 1936, Einstein Archive reel 52-337; Jammer, p.93.
    [10]Quoted in H. Dukas and B. Hoffman,Albert Einstein – The Human Side(USA Princeton University Press 1981); Jammer, p.144.
    [11]Z. Rosenkranz,Albert through the Looking Glass(Jewish National Library Jerusalem, 1998), pp.xi, 80; Jammer, p.151.
    [12]Einstein in conversation with W. Hermann in Hermann’s bookEinstein and the Poet(USA Branden Press, 1983), p.132; Jammer, p.123.
    [13]E. Salaman,A Talk with EinsteinThe Listener 54 (1955):370-371; Jammer, p.123.
    [14]E. Strauss,Assistant bei Albert Einsteinin C. Seelig,Helle Zeit-Dunkle Zeit(Europa Verlag, Zurich, 1956), p.72; Jammer, p.124.
    [15]Albert Einstein,Ideas and Opinions(New York: Random House 1954), p.255; Jammer, p.132.
    [16]Albert Einstein,The Quotable Einstein, ed. Alice Calaprice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp.195-6.
     
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    #279     Sep 22, 2015
  10. nitro

    nitro

    If God does exist, I venture to say the only reason a human can fathom for the creation of the Universe is, God is lonely. This in turn, led to a supremely creative act.

    I have other theories that make for better sci-fi novels.
     
    #280     Sep 22, 2015