I have a question for you guys. And just so you all know, I hope we can be kind and civil to each other about this. You guys know I value our friendships and I wouldn't trade that.
If we don't really have a solid foundation of what the essence of a God would be like, how can we disregard the possibility of his existence fully? It's as if we presuppose that a divine creator would be recordable if he existed. Some things can be objectively disproven. For example, can a person run at the speed of light? Now, that would be fairly easy to disprove because we are provided information which can act as a basis for our experiment. The first piece of information we have is what the speed of light is, which is 299 792 458 m / s. The next piece of information is what physical requirements it would take to get you going that fast. It would take an infinite amount of energy to get anything that has mass (Like a person or a rock) going at that rate of speed. If you burned all the oil (and plants, and animals) on our planet and converted them into kinetic energy you would get going pretty dang fast, but it would still give you 0% of the total energy that you need to get going at that immense rate of speed (since any number divided by infinity is zero). Through this, we could come to the logical conclusion that a person cannot run at the speed of light.
Now the dilemma when it comes to disproving or proving a God scientifically is that we don't actually have the necessary physical properties and data to define what a God would even be like, so it's just about impossible to come to a definite conclusion as to whether He exists or not based on whether or not we can observe Him. Science and physics observe the observable world and draw conclusions from it and that is BEAUTIFUL. I absolutely love science. But it can't draw conclusions out of things that don't have an observable foundation in the first place, even though the things may be true. For example, can you describe to me the essence of energy? Not what it does, how it relates to the world, or it's mathematical formula, but its very substance? We have a reason to believe in energy, no doubt, a really GOOD reason. It governs everything around us! But we don't believe in it because we can actually observe it, we believe in it because we observe how the world works and come to a conclusion that there must be an agent of cause, a logical progression that makes everything work. The really tricky part is when we get down to those little irreducible things that force us to (dare I say it) sacrifice our progressive and logical reasoning and come to the conclusion that "It just is" or "It was conceived by a mind and that mind just is." And I believe that the compromise of it is that when we choose which, we must acknowledge that that thing or who has the essence of being in of itself/themself. The intrinsic ability to cause itself to exist. That's a crazy thing to wrap our minds around in my opinion (The world is so cool!). So could God exist? I believe it's very possible/plausible, and I believe that a person who believes in God is neither unintellectual nor illogical. Looking forward to talk more about this with you guys. I hope you all have a great night and week!
Best,
AJ
PS.
I know this topic was not originally made to discuss the idea of God but it started to sway that way, so I figured I would share a few personal notions.
Topic: "The Big Three"