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Post 4. Continued . . .  

Alternative Theory of Reality & Deity

   Quotes & Notes for Post 4

Q. Why is the entire universe passing through a pin point not supernatural, but the existence of God is?

A. Jon Jermey, long-term atheist and AGW sceptic

If you’re referring to the extraordinary claim that the entire universe was once the size of a subatomic particle, then I agree with you that it’s really bizarre. It’s whacky! It’s fantastic! Nobody would ever believe anything as phenomenally strange as that……unless they had lots of strong, convincing evidence that couldn’t plausibly be explained in any other way.

But of course, they do. Cosmologists don’t believe in the Big Bang theory because they think it’s really cool; they believe in it because it’s the only explanation they have that works. It explains what they see, and measure, and detect.

Which is precisely what the existence of a god doesn’t do. There are no observations which require a god’s existence to explain them; there are no discoveries which don’t make any sense unless we start with the assumption that a god exists. Postulating a god doesn’t add to the accuracy or the usefulness of any theory; it doesn’t make any hypothesis more testable.

Theists believe in gods because they want to. But cosmologists believe in the Big Bang because they have to. Because all the evidence points that way, whether they want it to or not. And as scientists, they are obliged to follow the evidence.

That’s the difference.

 End Note 4.   I am coming to believe in the existence of G*D, because it's the only explanation that works --- to explain both Quantitative and Qualitative phenomena in the world. There are many observations of non-physical and immeasurable aspects of the world (Existence, Life, Mind) that are, so far, unexplained by materialistic theories. And there is one big observation that raises the unscientific Ontological question : the universe exists . . . why?

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