REASON TO BELIEVE
In Religion
- This is a living book
- It is currently being written — and re-written
- The basic claim here is that despite the obvious rational argument against religious belief, there is actually more reason to believe than to disbelieve — you just haven’t heard the reasons yet
- And, modern science seems to be missing/ignoring a whole dimension of reality — for now, I’ll call it “magic”
- The problem with religion is that in order to believe in one, we need to believe in a kind of “magic“
- And most of us do not believe in Magic
- Or at least, most of us do not think that we believe in magic
- But then, most of us really do…
- If you believe in free will, you believe in magic — if there is such a thing as free will, cause and effect is not absolute
- And if free will is real, you and I are “magical”
- (See https://what-it-s-all-about.life/free-will/)
- Also, if you believe in the “constancy” of right and wrong (ethics) you believe in magic – there are no ethical constants in science
- And really, if you believe in consciousness, you believe in magic — consciousness is our prototype of non-physical, and science has little (or NO) explanation for it
- And actually, most well-educated persons do believe in free will
- Almost everybody believes in ethics
- And everybody does believe in consciousness
- Then note that the only thing that would really make sense is nothing
- Nothing would make perfect sense!
- Once there is something, we have a serious conundrum…
- Either there has always been something — or, at one time there was nothing
- Neither possibility seems to make any sense
- Maybe, “always” isn’t what we think it is…
- Then, Stephen Hawking says that before time and the Big Bang there was a “singularity” of infinite mass, zero volume and no cause and effect…
- Yeah … right
- God?
- in other words, we should suspect that Reality is not quite the machine that ‘mainstream’ science would have us believe…
- There must be a bit of “MAGIC” in reality — especially, in us conscious beings…
- Then — to what extent does modern science really understand reality?
- We modern humans tend to think that we’re pretty far along the road to understanding reality – but then, we humans have probably always thought that
- Are we really much past Copernicus?
- Could it be that we humans are as close to understanding reality as chickens are to understanding calculus?
- Are we nearly as smart as we think we are?
- And then there’s
1. The Anthropic Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle): somehow, our universal physical constants are perfect for producing LIFE
2. Quantum Entanglement,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement): Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” And
3. Quantum Mechanics in general
https://www.aaas.org/quantum-mechanics-and-consciousness-connection - And then, we humans actually have two different ways of thinking – analytic and holistic
- (Scientists tend to be very analytic)
- These two different ways of thinking are carried by two different parts of the brain — for most of us, the left cerebral hemisphere does the analytic thinking, while the right does the holistic
- Religious thought seems to reside in the holistic, side
- But western education focuses on the analytic side
- The more education we westerners receive, the more analytic we become
- And the less religious…
- It’s like analytic thinking sees the trees, while holistic thinking sees (feels?) the forest
- Maybe like reading the notes, versus hearing the music
- People who are “really” religious seem to be feeling something that can barely — if at all —be reasoned to… (what they call “FAITH“)
- And given the suggested hemispheric separation, either the holistic side is ‘hallucinating’, or the analytic side is ‘color’-blind…
- But then, what really makes me believe in magic — and, religion –is my own SELF…
- (YOUR SELF | What it’s all about (what-it-s-all-about.life))
Again, this website is a booklet in progress
I’m not trying to sell anything (but ideas), so trying to read (and understand) my booklet will cost nothing but time
Unfortunately, I know very little about building, or managing, a website…
Anyway — it could be that what I have to suggest is really important
My conclusion so far is that our very existence is “magical”
Our existence is not “mechanical”
I am certainly conscious — and, I am probably free and responsible
There is no way to explain those characteristics mechanically
We should not worship “mechanics”
I’ll try to explain