About God
- From: Peter <Poakfield@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 05:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
Some physicists have difficulty conceiving the existence of God: an
infinite, immaterial being, who had no beginning and will have no end.
They find this hard to believe, but we have three examples of things
that appear to have exactly the same characteristics, and that we
usually have no problem accepting: Space, time, and energy: Space and
time, we realize, could not have had a beginning, and cannot have an
end: they are necessarily infinite, and, evidently, they are not
material. And physics teaches us that energy is conserved: it cannot
be created, and cannot be destroyed. Whatever amount of energy exists
now in the universe, must have always existed, and will continue to
exist forever: it is infinite. And energy in its radiant form
(photons) is not material, it has no mass, weight, or volume. Although
we cannot see it (we can only feel its effects), it affects powerfully
everything it touches. In other words, it has characteristics similar
to those of God.
The above arguments will probably not be accepted by some people who
have made a religion of not believing in anything, except atheism,
which is silly. It is easy to dismiss the existence of God, but doing
so, we are left with the difficult problem of explaining our own
sometime painful existence.
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