Atheist
Howard Bloom’s book “The God
Problem” proclaims there is no God and
explains “How a Godless Cosmos Creates” to prove it………I believe he is
overlooking one critical fact…..who or what is God?
My comments
to his premise……..
Doesn't claiming that there is a God or that
there is no God depend on how we define God?
The dominant concept of God in
most major religions is an anthropomorphic all powerful all knowing
"superbeing" who is external
to creation who created it by
violating, suspending or modifying the Laws of Existence...the alleged
"supernatural" and this God is required by arrogant man to
interact with creation the same way …….He created it ...."supernaturally." I submit that this concept of God is
irrelevant, meaningless and ironically unbiblical.
The
Judeo-Christian God revealed in the Bible is better defined and should be
defined as a "Spirit" of Love, Compassion, Forgiveness etc...NOT the
conventional anthropomorphic version of most religions. I submit that it is the interpretation of
the God of the Bible that is in error, NOT the Bible itself. and that this God
of "Spirit" was revealed in the "flesh" 2000 years ago in
the Incarnation of Yeshua ben Joseph,..."Jesus the Christ." The Judeo-Christian Bible is clear that
"this" God had no beginning and has no end. Therefore….assuming this God is NOT external to creation (which
I do) implies that creation itself has no beginning or end and ironically
modern Cosmology is beginning to come to the conclusion that this is so with
the development of the concept of the "Multiverse." (Bubble/Brane/M
Theories)
Over 140 years ago, French Chemist Louis
Pasteur performed a simple experiment that disproved the spontaneous generation
of life and revealed that "ALL life MUST come from pre-exisitng
life." (The Law of
Biogenesis) There are some today that
claim that they have created life from "scratch." They have NOT nor will they ever be able to
do so. All they have done is modify the genetic information in PRE-EXISTING cells by gene editing (CRISPR) and intentional
"coding" of synthetic nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) to synthesize specific
proteins resulting in new
"designer phenotypes."
In a way they unwittingly
support some of the claims of
Creationist Fundamental Christians by discovering the mechanism of
"Intelligent Design"....although these Christians still embrace the illusion of the
"supernatural" as the mechanism.
If they try to assemble all of the organelles of a living cell, active
cytoplasm and plama membrane....it will NOT begin to "live" because the "essence" of the
"life force" is missing. They
have tried this many many times but will not admit their failure. The success
of Miller and Uri in creating amino
acids spontaneously in a primitive atmosphere in vitro cannot be extrapolated
to the formation of the recording molecules of nucleic acids because protein enzymes are needed to “make”
protein enzymes which are needed to lower activation energy to form stable
nucleic acids….the “molecular” version of “What came first..the chicken or the
egg?” The true answer is NEITHER!
The ONLY way
to tranmit this "force" of life is by fission in pre-existing
prokaryotic cells and mitosis and meiosis in pre-existing eukaryotic
cells. I submit that this concept of
God is the REALTY proven by Pasteur and
I believe this resolves "The God Problem" because life always
existed because God has always existed.
As I stated in the first paragraph....how we define God is critical in
discussing whether God exists or not.
"How a Godless Cosmos Creates" is actually an oxymoron because Existence IS
because God IS. Creation is an eternal process...NOT an event
and modern Cosmology is closing in on it.
The "Big Bang" space/time inflation is just one of an infinite
number. THERE IS NO SUPERNATURAL ANTHROPOMORPHIC SUPERBEING GOD...that God is
imaginary and manmade. Using that
definition of God.....the title of the book “The God Problem” is accurate but it doesn’t refute the REALITY of the God of
Existence.
In
Christ...David Brown (retired biology teacher)
PS:
If your interested....I believe the following
Scriptures support my definition of God..... Genesis 1:26, Psalm
82:3-6, John 14:8-23, Galatians 3:26-28, Colossians 1:27, 2:9-10,
1
Corinthians:3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 John 4:11-16 God is the Spirit of Love, Compassion,
Forgiveness etc. that dwells within and works through creation and PERFECT
Laws.
