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A Brief Argument For God
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
The First Law of thermodynamics:

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms.

In any process in an isolated system, the total energy remains the same.-(definition from Wikipedia)

If this is true, and science has proven this to be true through mathematics, then energy is eternal and always existed; that this energy source must be massive beyond all understanding, especially when one considers the energy that must exist to have formed to make up and maintain the Universe.

The Formation of the Universe

Before the Universe was, this energy must have first existed. The formation of the Universe could have only happened in one of two ways: a. by chance or b. by an intelligent design. The complex nature of even the simplest structure overrules chance, therefore leaving only an intelligent beyond all understanding energy.

I call this intelligent energy God or Divine Consciousness, among other names. I do not believe that it matters what one call this Divine Being, as long as one recognizes within their own being the existence of this Divine Intelligent Energy.

33. For he alone is all things.
34. And for this cause he hath many Names, because he is the One Father; and therefore he hath no Name, because he is the Father of all._ The Divine Pymander Book 5

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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 6:22 AM
The energy cannot be destroyed - I agree
Energy cannot be created - I disagree

My thing of why I challenge this is the dimension(not necessarily a higher dimension) of creation, the thing where all probabilities collide to create a universe that is infinite. So how do we get from... a ’point of focus’, or ’dot on the map’ if you will to what we have now? How does The macrocosm expand?

The coincidence, or intelligent design. Really the Chaos theory may explain this best, which is a part of the "divine paradox" that it is neither, and both a universe made from intelligent design and/or coincidence. It may indeed be answered... It already has. Yes though, I agree that it is intelligent energy.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 6:49 AM
It all seemed like a good idea at the time!
One reoccurring thought of mine is this:
Religion tells us that God created the universe and everything in it.
Science tells us how.
Nice post RC.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 6:56 AM
I do not believe that the macrocosm does expand, but that it recreates itself. Physicists are saying this as well. When we speak of our expanding universe, we are speaking of bodies of energies drifting away from each other (the way that galaxies are drifting away from each other)

If energy could be created, it would be necessary for an energy to create it, thus there is one form of energy transforming itself into another form of energy. :)

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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 4:45 PM
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I do not believe that the macrocosm does expand, but that it recreates itself. Physicists are saying this as well. When we speak of our expanding universe, we are speaking of bodies of energies drifting away from each other (the way that galaxies are drifting away from each other)

If energy could be created, it would be necessary for an energy to create it, thus there is one form of energy transforming itself into another form of energy. :)

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That is if you didn’t believe energy was being created. It being created would then be like knocking down walls in a house to build another room then constantly repeating that.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 4:52 PM
Now I am going to have to investigate about human energy. If we die and are buried does our energy go into the earth? If we are cremated do we release the energy to fuel the fire? This might be like a koan. hmmmm.... lol

I am agnostic, but have pondered such things however my conclusion is always that it’s all speculation. It’s nature that created us, but then again, I never named nature god but it seems others have. I don’t know, as I said before I am on the lone highway of spirituality. I am spiritual and agnostic.

Good questions to ponder.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 1, 2009 5:37 PM
I recieved this quote in my email this morning. It seems to have some relvence to this discussion.

You created yourself from the components of this time/space reality. You did not come from another planet. For most of you it is (slightly) easier to believe that some spaceship came in from another planet and dropped some of you off, and now, you’ve really got it going good. And the same spaceship also brought…(oh no, that’s the Noah’s ark story) two of everybody else. And so, now, you’ve got the same problem with this story that you do with Noah’s ark: It must have been a smelly boat…And how did all those species get on it? (and where did they come from?) you see?

--- Abraham

(Excerpted from the workshop in Kansas City, MO on Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 245 Jerry and Esther Hicks)

If one is unable to accept that our visible reality is encompassed in an invisible reality, it is also difficult to see where that extra energy comes from or goes to. Science is already pondering the interchangable nature of particles and waves. Physicists have observe the "disappearance and reappearance" of matter on a subatomic level. My understanding is that scientists aren’t creating new information or discoveries, they are catching up with the nature of reality.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 2, 2009 1:29 AM
The scientists admit they don’t exactly know where everything came from or even that much about how it all is right now. They lay it all over onto something they call "dark matter". How much dark matter is there?

Theory 99% of the Universe is Dark Matter
Observations 90% of the Universe is Dark Matter and the Universe is open
There is a big difference between Theory and Observation with good arguments coming from both sides. The situation is unresolved and has been for 20 years. Whomever solves the "dark matter" problem will likely win the Nobel prize.

However, its important to realize that the "dark matter" problem exists only in the context of one known long range force (gravity). Suppose there is another long range force that we are ignorant of. If this is discovered by future physicists then they will look back at this "dark matter" cosmology much the same way we now view the early "geocentric" cosmologies.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 2, 2009 1:39 PM
If it is looked at as...
what is outside ourselves is a direct correlation of what we are in essence, it seems clear.
Regardless of our understanding of why... energy IS. We see it, feel it, ect.
Energy does not end but changes forms see...physics.
Physics explains the macrocosm well as far as human thought has developed.
Science is not fact.None of it.It is theory...and for a good reason.
As our knowledge grows, so does our understanding of these things.

Things of a spiritual (not necessarily religious) nature..
inspires us to look inward to the microcosm.
To the essence of self (as defined by the individual) which too, where knowege is always developing.

Both are real;
we see (macrocosm) and we feel (microcosm);
and not mutual exclusive.

Truly creation is magnificent...
That two things seemingly far apart are reflections of the same...
All is One.

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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 2, 2009 3:38 PM
Morrigan wrote:
If it is looked at as...

what is outside ourselves is a direct correlation of what we are in essence, it seems clear.

Regardless of our understanding of why... energy IS. We see it, feel it, ect.

Energy does not end but changes forms see...physics.

Physics explains the macrocosm well as far as human thought has developed.

Science is not fact.None of it.It is theory...and for a good reason.

As our knowledge grows, so does our understanding of these things.



Things of a spiritual (not necessarily religious) nature..

inspires us to look inward to the microcosm.

To the essence of self (as defined by the individual) which too, where knowege is always developing.



Both are real;

we see (macrocosm) and we feel (microcosm);

and not mutual exclusive.



Truly creation is magnificent...

That two things seemingly far apart are reflections of the same...

All is One.



In Love and Light,

Morrigan


Law of Mind = There is Only ONE Mind.

The Mind of God is Creation and everything contained therein, because the Mind of God is the Only Reality. On the subatomic level matter is disappearing and reappearing in the Mind of God, because the Mind of God is Awake in Absolute Life Force. However, the mind of God has also been caught Dreaming and it is the Sleeping Mind of God that allows for Relative Life Function, and that is where we come in...

The Slumbering Function of God’s Mind I call Mentality as Mind Never Slumbers. This Mentality of God has allowed for the mentality of Man by which our Species has chopped up and divided every which way we can, just because we can. But there remains a part of ourselves that is dreaming this dream as well as a Part called LOVE that Never Slept in the First Place. We are ONE in the Mind of God because the Mind of God is One Being ALL. Pretty Simple Theology and Simple is good, making it relevant may require a new Skill Set but other than that what’s the problem???


Fluid Theology, that’s what I like!!! Once you become bogged down in doctrine (IN-Doctrine-Nation) you Lose Your Fluidity... That is NOT Good because God is FLOW, being the Divine Paradox between the Duality Points of GAP Theory...

I’m not arguing for God, just sharing the Vision I See and from his Viewpoint the Scenery is Magnificent because there are no Mortals in the Kingdom...

Mucho BLAH ha Princess and Have A GOD Day... Blahnanda
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 8, 2009 7:41 PM
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The complex nature of even the simplest structure overrules chance, therefore leaving only an intelligent beyond all understanding energy.

I’m not trying to rain on any parades. Really. I do believe in god and in our ongoing participation in creating god’s universe.
But I (and no doubt others whom you might hope to persuade) am not at all convinced by the above arguement.
One "definition" of infinity would be that given an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of monkeys, we could expect that at some point in that infinity of time, a monkey would compose Beetoven’s Ninth. In other words, a simple structure with a complex nature does NOT overrule chance. Unless, of course, by "complex nature" you mean...?
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 8, 2009 8:48 PM
it are starts out as spirit.....we are NOTHING next to spirit. we are not capabale of shit....without spirit. this is NOT the dimension of creation....this is a "hologram."
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According to the Vedas this particular yuga (age) that we’re now in (Kali) will last for another four hundred and twenty-seven thousand years before there is a cosmic devastation and the whole process starts over again.

"Vedic Cosmology is yet another ancient Vedic science which can be confirmed by modern scientific findings and this is acknowledged by well known scientists and authors, such as Carl Sagan and Count Maurice Maeterlinck, who recognized that the cosmology of the Vedas closely parallels modern scientific findings.

Carl Sagan stated, "Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology."

Nobel laureate Count Maurice Maeterlinck wrote of: "a Cosmogony which no European conception has ever surpassed."

French astronomer Jean-Claude Bailly corroborated the antiquity and accuracy of the Vedic astronomical measurements as "more ancient than those of the Greeks or Egyptians." And that, "the movements of the stars calculated 4, 500 years ago, does not differ by a minute from the tables of today.""
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The universe is a playground.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 9, 2009 4:13 AM
The very fact that Jeff has posted here after what seems like an eternity of silence is proof enough to to me that there is is a God! Welcome back my friend!
I personally shy away from the practice of establishing "proofs". I have long embraced the acceptance of this enormous force that moves through us and everything. Perhaps I am a naive fool, but I allow myself to believe I feel it.
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Reply with this quote Post a reply to this Topic Posted: Nov 9, 2009 6:04 AM
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IAMRCx wrote:

The complex nature of even the simplest structure overrules chance, therefore leaving only an intelligent beyond all understanding energy.



I’m not trying to rain on any parades. Really. I do believe in god and in our ongoing participation in creating god’s universe.

But I (and no doubt others whom you might hope to persuade) am not at all convinced by the above arguement.

One "definition" of infinity would be that given an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of monkeys, we could expect that at some point in that infinity of time, a monkey would compose Beetoven’s Ninth. In other words, a simple structure with a complex nature does NOT overrule chance. Unless, of course, by "complex nature" you mean...?
Do you really think that I am making this post to impress or persuade anyone in this group?

I have heard of the infinite number of monkeys story. I believe it was called "The 100th Monkey Effect". It was originated by Lawrence Blair and Lyall Watson. The story (theory) was discredited.

Atoms show a form of consciousness and know which atoms to join with and which atoms to reject in order to form different structures, coupled with the awareness to sense when it is being observed. I am writing about consciousness at the quantum level. It seems that when broken down, even the atom is made of other "particles" or forms of energy, which could be broken down again and again into infinity. There does not appear to be any point where consciousness starts, only that the effects of consciousness is observed at every observable point. At some point there is an Intelligence that directs this energy, that gives this energy the intelligence to form physical structures out of non-physical energy. I call this God.

With Much Metta
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