George Freed
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I've noticed that from time to time you get a person on your show who is atheist in their beliefs. I find it interesting how easily these people dismiss the existence of God when there seems to be a great deal of proof all around them.
I have an idea that I have used from time to time that often gets people to think a little bit more. I take them back to the year 1776 and explain that I'm talking to an educated person of that age. I try to explain to them the concept of radio and how radio waves can be used to actually talk to another person on the other side of the planet.
Now how do you thing that person would take my suggestion? They would probably think I was a little nuts. I remember my Grandpa watching the first moon flight on TV! He wanted to turn the TV off because he was absolutely sure that the moon flight was totally fake! Flying to the moon in a space ship is totally impossible in his mind.
With radio waves if you don't have the equipment to observe the waves you really can't prove their existence. This is the basic problem we have. We have a tendency to believe only what we can observe using our senses. We believe what we can see, hear, smell, taste or feel. But can you observe ultraviolet light, or infrared light. Can you observe frequencies above 40Khz. As a matter of fact when scientist look through those really big telescopes they don't use their eyes any more as they would miss way too much of whats out there. As a matter of fact if I was somehow able to build a radio transceiver in the year 1776 I might get into trouble with people who might believe I was using black magic or something. Galileo actually hid many of his inventions for fear of getting into trouble with people.
Today, unlike in the past we use instrumentation to observe so many things a person might come to the conclusion that our five senses are becoming obsolete! The fact is its true our five senses are becoming obsolete and in many cases not to be believed. Today with the high tech equipment and even the high speeds we can move at we can not rely on our senses to give us accurate information. As a matter of fact its very easy to fool our senses. Jet fighter pilots DO NOT really fly their aircraft when doing a bombing run. The Jet moves so fast that the pilots brain can not keep up due to the high speed. Pilots actually program an attack computer. They program in where the target is then hit the "go" button, the computer takes over, does the attack then hands the jet back over to the pilot when the attack run has been completed.
So in 1776 people would have a hard time dealing with our high tech culture that we have today. You would think that today with all our instrumentation and our abilities we would be more open the the obvious... The obvious being that the more we know or think we know only opens new areas of exploration. We launch the Hubble telescope and what happens, the scientists find out that they now have even more questions then they had before they looked through the thing! The fact is that what we should be understanding at this point is that "Nothing is Impossible"
So the big question is "What is God?" Well maybe what we should be first be asking is "Where is God?" Science has been talking allot about alternate dimensions. People are not very sure about dimensions because we really don't have the instrumentation to look into another dimension. As a matter of fact generally speaking the public knows so little about this subject that for the most part for us an alternate dimension is like SciFi to us. Without the instrumentation we can not observe and when we can not observe we have problems believing. This doesn't mean that what we can not observe doesn't exist. We should know this by now and this is what drives me up the walls. I use instruments and equipment every day to see and hear things that with my five senses are not observable. This computer I'm currently using talks via radio with this little box under the table in the other room! We are a generation of people who live with miracles from day to day yet we don't believe in them.
So what I'm saying here is that taking a position on the non-existence of God is in fact a belief system because you may not be able to prove God's existence but you can't disprove it either.. As a matter of fact as science progresses we are finding more and more that its getting more difficult discount a creative influence in our domain. Science is finding that too many things have to be aligned just so for our world to exist as it does.
Now when you start to look at genetics we find so much perfection there that it actually gets harder to be an atheist then it does to believe in SOME creative force be it God or little green men. Personally I believe the atheist of this world are going to at some point turn to the little green men theory because its going to be impossible to continue to believe in evolution. As it is now people are starting to wake up to the fact that evolution is getting out dated and this theory is just too full of holes.
In conclusion I'd like to say that I've heard far too many people say that they will only believe in what they can observe with their senses. I find this stance remarkable considering the times in which we live today. I fully understand that its way too easy to fool the human senses. As a matter of fact I think that many of the miraculous things the Anti--Christ will do will not be truly miraculous but tricks of high technology. Its not difficult to call "Fire from the sky!" when you have a Star Wars particle beam laser platform in geosynchronous orbit. Its going to get very interesting here on planet earth!
PS I have two cats. When I look and them and how perfect they are in body and all the things they can do I have a really hard time thinking they are a total accident of nature. All I can say is that nature had lots of interesting accidents for sure. If I didn't believe in God I would have to go with the little green men messing with DNA here on earth
I have an idea that I have used from time to time that often gets people to think a little bit more. I take them back to the year 1776 and explain that I'm talking to an educated person of that age. I try to explain to them the concept of radio and how radio waves can be used to actually talk to another person on the other side of the planet.
Now how do you thing that person would take my suggestion? They would probably think I was a little nuts. I remember my Grandpa watching the first moon flight on TV! He wanted to turn the TV off because he was absolutely sure that the moon flight was totally fake! Flying to the moon in a space ship is totally impossible in his mind.
With radio waves if you don't have the equipment to observe the waves you really can't prove their existence. This is the basic problem we have. We have a tendency to believe only what we can observe using our senses. We believe what we can see, hear, smell, taste or feel. But can you observe ultraviolet light, or infrared light. Can you observe frequencies above 40Khz. As a matter of fact when scientist look through those really big telescopes they don't use their eyes any more as they would miss way too much of whats out there. As a matter of fact if I was somehow able to build a radio transceiver in the year 1776 I might get into trouble with people who might believe I was using black magic or something. Galileo actually hid many of his inventions for fear of getting into trouble with people.
Today, unlike in the past we use instrumentation to observe so many things a person might come to the conclusion that our five senses are becoming obsolete! The fact is its true our five senses are becoming obsolete and in many cases not to be believed. Today with the high tech equipment and even the high speeds we can move at we can not rely on our senses to give us accurate information. As a matter of fact its very easy to fool our senses. Jet fighter pilots DO NOT really fly their aircraft when doing a bombing run. The Jet moves so fast that the pilots brain can not keep up due to the high speed. Pilots actually program an attack computer. They program in where the target is then hit the "go" button, the computer takes over, does the attack then hands the jet back over to the pilot when the attack run has been completed.
So in 1776 people would have a hard time dealing with our high tech culture that we have today. You would think that today with all our instrumentation and our abilities we would be more open the the obvious... The obvious being that the more we know or think we know only opens new areas of exploration. We launch the Hubble telescope and what happens, the scientists find out that they now have even more questions then they had before they looked through the thing! The fact is that what we should be understanding at this point is that "Nothing is Impossible"
So the big question is "What is God?" Well maybe what we should be first be asking is "Where is God?" Science has been talking allot about alternate dimensions. People are not very sure about dimensions because we really don't have the instrumentation to look into another dimension. As a matter of fact generally speaking the public knows so little about this subject that for the most part for us an alternate dimension is like SciFi to us. Without the instrumentation we can not observe and when we can not observe we have problems believing. This doesn't mean that what we can not observe doesn't exist. We should know this by now and this is what drives me up the walls. I use instruments and equipment every day to see and hear things that with my five senses are not observable. This computer I'm currently using talks via radio with this little box under the table in the other room! We are a generation of people who live with miracles from day to day yet we don't believe in them.
So what I'm saying here is that taking a position on the non-existence of God is in fact a belief system because you may not be able to prove God's existence but you can't disprove it either.. As a matter of fact as science progresses we are finding more and more that its getting more difficult discount a creative influence in our domain. Science is finding that too many things have to be aligned just so for our world to exist as it does.
Now when you start to look at genetics we find so much perfection there that it actually gets harder to be an atheist then it does to believe in SOME creative force be it God or little green men. Personally I believe the atheist of this world are going to at some point turn to the little green men theory because its going to be impossible to continue to believe in evolution. As it is now people are starting to wake up to the fact that evolution is getting out dated and this theory is just too full of holes.
In conclusion I'd like to say that I've heard far too many people say that they will only believe in what they can observe with their senses. I find this stance remarkable considering the times in which we live today. I fully understand that its way too easy to fool the human senses. As a matter of fact I think that many of the miraculous things the Anti--Christ will do will not be truly miraculous but tricks of high technology. Its not difficult to call "Fire from the sky!" when you have a Star Wars particle beam laser platform in geosynchronous orbit. Its going to get very interesting here on planet earth!
PS I have two cats. When I look and them and how perfect they are in body and all the things they can do I have a really hard time thinking they are a total accident of nature. All I can say is that nature had lots of interesting accidents for sure. If I didn't believe in God I would have to go with the little green men messing with DNA here on earth