I was thinking about the question: “Do you believe in God” and as usual I didn’t want to give a quick answer so I thought a little about this.

Imagine you were asked: “Do you believe in the Wnirklit?” What would you response be? Obviously: Can you define “Wnirklit” for me?

So in order to correctly answer a question properly, you have to know about it’s content, to this extend I was wondering how God is defined. I know what is meant by God, and I also know that many different people would answer this question differently due to the fact that there are numerous Religions. Still How do you define God?

I would like to add, that if you want to answer God is undefinable, than I am sorry, since that the question: Do you believe in God, becomes as meaningless as the one about the Wnirklit.

Cheers Arend

I read it again, and I will read it again: Someone talking about evolution being a believe and science being a religion, which is utterly wrong. But the that person goes on arguing that since I am already believing I should believe in God…

And I always wonder: Which God? Since there are at least three main religions having one God, and a lot of others having many, and I guess Buddhism has Buddha, but that doesn’t mean he was a God?

The point I am making is: That there is one science, and there can not be two, but there are tons of religions, doesn’t that tell you something?

Cheers Arend

All the stuff that was written in Leviticus, and also all the laws given after the 10 commandments… are they still valid for someone who takes the bible literally and serious?

And if so, who decides that?

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I was having a discussion about the nature of reality, and I guess it boiled down to something very simple:

If reality (the universe) is consistent, which means there are not contradictions or physical/mathematical discrepancies observable, we can use logical inference to come to conclusions about the nature of reality.

With other words: If there is no super natural thing in our reality, we are able to understand it.

But if there are supernatural things (which by definition are inconsistent with nature, otherwise they would be natural causes) we not only loose consistency in reality, but we also loose the ability to understand this reality. And thus also the ability to understand the nature of this supernaturality…. The experienceable existence of God denies reason.

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I was just wondering about the different religions, and basically how each one claims to be the one true religion and all the others are about bogus. Which also means that there is a bunch of prophets and either all are crazy (my hypothesis) or all but one is crazy. So how do you solve this problem?

At first we have to make sure that we all understand the issue: Do we make a choice between them, or is it predetermined who is the one and we just have to eliminate the wrong ones, and this is just a test of our own faith?

Cheers Arend

Here is a question:

If the Bible is the Word of God, speaking of the truth, why are there so many different interpretations, opinions, and most importantly why are there so many people who all claim to get it right, but fight to the death about it?

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I work a lot with simulations and models for evolution. And one of the easier to code is the NK fitness landscape model. You have a bit string and depending on a large table you know how fit each string is. You select this strings fitness proportional to generate your next generation, and randomly mutate the strings (all depending on several parameters). Never the less the model is a very accurate implementation of: Inheritance, variation, and selection. The organisms become more fit, the increase their information stored in the genome, and everything evolves by all possible means of measurement.

Here is the question: If you think evolution doesn’t work, or doesn’t exist, or can’t increase information, or whatever strange idea you can have as a creationist – what is it that I observe?

My answer is easy: evolution. But what is yours?

Cheers Arend

Yes you read right!

I read/hear so often that atheism means that you loose purpose and meaning to life. Only if the creation of God revolves around us as humans, there is purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. The basic idea: If there was no creator, and we are “just” the product of the universe unfolding itself deterministically, without having a soul, “just” emerged from mud, evolved from unicellular organisms to humans – then there is no meaning to our lives. But having a God gives you meaning, and purpose.

I think this is as wrong as it gets. Because what is meaningful about a life that was created by an omnipotent being, that is able to foresee every turn that you will do on your lives path, and that at the end sorts you into heaven or hell. Your purpose can impossibly be: Get to heaven. That is already predetermined by God, he already knows where you end up. Your life is just the foreplay for eternal damnation or heaven. Besides that heaven also does not allow free will, it is just a place of peace and happiness that you might witness but you can not interact. How can that be a purpose?

Or maybe you life becomes meaningful because you were made instead of emerged? What is the meaning of that exactly? Just because I baked a muffin doesn’t give meaning to it, once someones digestive system turned it into waste. You are meant to die – that is the only message God intended for us? How strange and derailed is that as a purpose or meaning?

Let us face it: There is no meaning to life and no purpose of your existence. I accept that. You all should simply accept that there is no meaning and no purpose to it.

Because once you do that, you will not end up being depressed or helpless or lost. On the contrary, you will experience something very beautiful. You consciousness and your free will suddenly have to deal with the question: What to do? How to find happiness in life? How to give my life a meaning? Wonderful and fulfilling questions. And the best of all: There is no one simple answer, or rule of thumb. There is only a limit to how far I can go, and what I can achieve. And everyone of us faces the same question, we are all even when it comes to finding an answer. Suddenly there is no right and wrong, and no one can claim moral superiority over the other, we can be liberated from fundamentalism and hate.

The one thing that unites us all, is our desire for love and purpose and meaning. Which is so much greater if we would all work together, respect each other, and fulfill each others dreams – which is a great purpose for everyones life! Be the reason for someone else’s happiness and fulfillment.

Simply put: Get over the illusion of purpose, and start making decisions for yourself!

Cheers Arend

Dear catholic church, dear Benedict:

There will be a time in a not so distant future when you are going to get sued. Not necessarily in the vatican, but in some other country. It will be a lawsuit about equal opportunity. A woman will appeal to a court, saying she wants to become a priest. And guess what, at some time in a not so distant future, she will win! This is only a matter of time, as it was a matter of time, that you had to approve to Galilee’s observations.

Here is the smart move, and way to win back followers: Equal opportunities right now! Very much, in the spirit of Jesus!

Cheers Arend

Let us make this very simple:

Fundamental christians are afraid of evolution, because it undermines their belief system! If everything the Bible says has to be true, of cause science must scare the hell out of you. This is actually true for the Koran as well, the holy book must hold true in all cases otherwise the things you hold dear become questionable.

Why don’t you all convert to a believe system without fear: All you need it love! Love everybody as you love yourself!

I couldn’t live with myself if I constantly have to think: “There are people actively working on proving that I live in a delusion!” And the weirdest thing of all: You choose to live by the book, and nobody (not even Jesus, not even God) wants you to. Break free from the boundaries of fundamentalism, and embrace life and love! Stop being a ignorant fools and become Christians! Or atheists, or whatever, as long as you stop using a book to defend you questionable moral choices, grow up, become enlightened!

Jesus could have come to earth to undo Adam and Eve’s sin, but no God left us Wisdom and self authority, we all are the forgiven people.

Cheers Arend