Posted by: Don.Corleone September 8, 2006
Inductive Supreme
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Do I believe in God ? Intelligence demands that I believe. The world the way I see needs a history for creation. Let me start with the universe. Scientific knowledge formulates an ever-expanding universe. What makes the universe expand. What is the force behind the rotation of the earth, the creation of the sun, the solar systems and the umpteen galaxies in the universe. Getting into the earth, how was water created, how was air created, how did the trees come into existence ? If humans were designed, what an impeccable designer is behind it. Intuitively, though physics can explain a phenomenon in equations and forces, it is very logical for me to accept a super force behind the creation of all other forces. There is a theory that argues based on what if everything happens by chance, so to say Hydrogen met with Oxygen to say "Lets get wet". How did the hydrogen come and where was oxygen all the while? Why did they have to interact at that time and place. If anyone is convinced that Chance let that happen, I am convinced that Chance is the way that you have perceived God without realizing it. As a human you have no choice in the way "Chance" will behave and you keep thinking all your life that "Chance" will smile your way too. So if you call this atheism, I only see it as a road to realize something that is "Supreme". Who is that God ? Does he have a form? God is the "Absolute" power behind the universe. He is the "Creator", "Destroyer" and the "Protector". Assigning a form to him is interpretive. It is wrong to question His form. As humans when we try visualizing him, we are trying to use the knowledge of the brain and the eye to interpret the form. It is wrong to conclude that he is formless because we can not see him, and also is not right to blindly accept a form and be fanatic about it. The process of visualization is more of a relativistic experience/interpretation and hence is individualistic. It is not worth arguing that God has a form or is formless. The realization is more significant than the visualization. Do you think the destiny is predetermined ? I think so. Timelines are relative. I want to use Einstein's "Twin Paradox" to explain. If one of the two twins is given a free ride traveling at the speed of light or more to another planet say Jupiter and comes back and he takes 50 years the twin who went on the travel will still be 0 years old, while the twin in the earth would have aged to 50 years. The twin that was traveling at the speed of light was never in the time frame of the earth and so was not aging at all. Thinking on the same lines, light from the stars that made the earth suitable for a living started a few years back on the earth. The rays so emitted created the earth. This is the destiny. When go you back in time ( I am not talking about the past but the origin), you have no space to define time and when the reference space is fixed we have restricted our timeline also.
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