You Are Your God

Logical faith assumes the existence of gods and seeks to be in harmony with the laws of nature and logical probability.

In the previous chapter we saw the logical difficulties with an all-powerful god. Now let's look at another difficulty: a creator god who made everything. This involves the logical difficulty with a beginning out of nothing and a beginning to time itself. The creator god is expressed in science as the Big Bang theory which says that the entire universe began out of nothing in a great explosion. Never has there been observed an explosion of nothing. Every explosion ever observed has been a transformation of matter and energy from one state to another. There is always prior existence. Much more logically probable is the alternative theory that the universe is infinite and eternal.

Basics of Logical Faith. In this new stage of evolution, we no longer blindly accept highly improbable beliefs written long ago by persons claiming to be channels of the word of an almighty god. We can now have a faith that is based not on mere authoritative assurance, but on:

(3) rejection of the extreme theories of complete determinism and explosions of nothing

(4) acceptance of the existence of random events that have no order or reason or purpose—a frequent finding of science, but a finding long rejected due, possibly, to the influence of religion

(5) the thoughts and conclusions of the greatest thinkers, artists, inventors, businessmen, and leaders of nations, et al, throughout recorded history some quotes

(6) statements compiled and synthesized on the Internet by millions of persons who, unknown to one another, have experienced continuation of their consciousness after having been considered medically dead. The energy of consciousness, like any type of energy, is "neither created nor destroyed." afterlife psychology 101

An Afterlife Exists. Belief in an afterlife can be found in all human cultures since earliest times. Now, with the arrival of the Internet, more than ten million persons have reported out-of-body or afterlife experiences. The reports have been made by persons of all ages, and who are generally not known to one another. The large number and independence of these reports is of statistical benefit, and children's reports have added scientific benefit because they are naïve in a scientific sense. Still the organised religions tell us that only through proper worship can we enter an afterlife that evolution has already guaranteed us. We must now live life in terms of the next.

Some More Assumptions of Logical Faith

The Ultimacy of Uncertainty. Order can arise by chance, but not the reverse. See Charles Sanders Peirce.

We Are the Source of the Order We Observe. Many great philosophers have concluded that our minds impose order on the phenomena of experience. (Cf. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.)

We Are Eternal Continuity. All things and events in our experience exist in continuity from past to present to future—the eternal continuity of our existence. We individual gods are that continuity, the number line upon which all points exist (Cf. Charles Sanders Peirce).

Existence of An Afterlife. Any afterlife would be part of the eternal continuity of existence. Evidence is provided by the statements of a great many individuals, unknown to one another. Such statements are acceptable as scientific evidence at least in the field of psychology. Cf. afterlifepsychology 101.

The Simplest Theory Rule. If two different theories are proposed to explain a phenomenon, the simplest is the one to choose. This principle is one of the most important in the history of philosophy, mathematics, and science; and in the case of art, beauty. This profound assumption may have been first stated as "Occam's Razor."

Logical Probability

1. Universe is eternal.

2. Energy is neither created nor destroyed.

3. Perfect determinism impossible.

4. Coexistence of randomness and order.

Logical Conclusion

1. No creator.

2. The existence of consciousness continues after death. Everyone goes to the afterlife.

3. No almighty god.

4. Many events happen for no reason.