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 all these Christian 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 of some
type, 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 and it 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
it, 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 an Intelligence that by will alone, created
everything. That includes galaxies, suns, planets, the elements, man,
cockroaches, trees, viruses and what have you. It would certainly take a
perverse mind to imagine, design and manufacture such things as fleas,
mosquitoes and bed bugs.
Christians
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 Develop 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 products 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 (and maybe God is still
learning and this one is also doomed to failure).
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 also 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! How did the
Bible reporter know what God said?
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 and more highly developed 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!
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERSE?
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 as the Bible states in
the book of Job? 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 advice, 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 a 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 and universe in his own wisdom. God also decided to let
me be my own man and use my own wisdom in my own life and decisions. 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. The same will happen to you, whether you know
it or not. 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
refuse 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
and forces 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 American 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 took from the tree of knowledge. They
found out that Jehovah had lied to them (for whatever purpose). 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). I guess we need to give some thanks to Lucifer for 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 rooting and betting on the Atheists.
Since
the 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, Sages 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 are the cells of the body. 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 creation 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.
How Did This Creation Story Begin?
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.
Notice: I said the Christian Bible.
How
do believers Know God created everything? The first words in the Old Jewish
Testament translated into English says:
"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, this 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 (or made) 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. Cause and Effect are always at work.
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 the
concept of a creating God 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 Old 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 because it
is still appended to the digestive track. If God did create man not so long
ago, 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 and it is written up in scientific journals.
National Geography has pictures and financed some of the work. 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 that 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 major
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 colliding and 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 and from electric
plasma. 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) or in an electrical plasma event. 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 doubters 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! How Christian!
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 Constantine Bible 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 claiming creation was
false and they 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? Well, they have given us an invisible disease (called sin) for
which they have invented an invisible cure (called salvation)! Then 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, a
watch 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 to truth!
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. The fact of the matter is it is being duplicated every day all
over the universe. Evolution knows what needs to be done first, then second and
so on. The problem is our science is not yet aware of all the laws and forces
of matter and energy. Actually, Evolution doesn’t “Know” anything. It is just
the fact that step number one must be enacted before step number two can be
activated and so on.
Things
are like they are, because given the material and energy Evolution had to work
with, that is the way our present universe and world could come into being.
If Anything could come into being without a God
Then Everything
could!
You
cannot produce something out of nothing!
Even God could not make herself if she were not herself 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?
Thomas
E. Blaylock
Copyright: 1989
Updated: 04/11/08
Updated: 08/13/10
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