Article #285
Subject: PBS Series on Thinking Like a Genius
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/5/2016 12:17:58 PM

To get started trying to answer the questions “Where was God when you were created [where did we
come from]?”, “What are we made of”, and the question “Why are we here?” scientifically see Stephen
Hawkings PBS series ‘Thinking Like a Genius.”

Why are we here? Do I control my destiny? Or, are we all an accident? This would be the case if
everything is pre-determined.

Can we answer for ourselves this question without the help of faith? Or, if we use faith, can there be a
method to our faith?

Is there a higher being who created us for a purpose

The Bible tells us “Faith is the substance, the reality of things hoped for, the evidence [in some spiritual
sense] of things not seen.” “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God.” St. Paul

The Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh before he had his temporary stroke and loss of speech, published for us his
book about being mindful as we wonder, listen, hear and “silence”. I have retweeted his teachings for
us as:

Faith is wondering about Love and Truth, listening to Love and Truth, talking with Them, being
Love and Truth yourself, letting go of Them.



Faith consists in being still and knowing that even if we do not believe in God or know God,
God believes in us and knows this for,with us .


For me, Dr. Andrew William Harrell, Faith is all of this, plus it is:

1)the Light of the One increasing
2) the Light of the One without a second.
3) the Light of the One transforming itself inside of each of us
4) the Light in us that discriminates the human from the Divine.

Faith consists in being still and knowing that even if we do not believe in God or know God, God believes
in us and knows this for,with us

If you have more of a scientific mind that a religious one, it is all part of God’s mind, the Christ mind,
dwelling in us. Then the Certainity of Love and Truth and Hope becomes more important than the
certainity of Faith and Love and Truth.
St. Paul if you study his theology in the book of Roimans, believed more in the unexpected nature of
hope, than in its certainity.

Mr. Alexander Dumas tells us in his book “The Count of Monte Cristo, who becomes incredibly weathly
by being given a secret map for discovering the lost treasures of gold and silver hidden in an island of
his self off the coast of Sicily inside of a mountain of Christ.” that even if you do not believe in God, God
believes in you. To do this you have to allow Him or Her to be the One who knows all of this for you, not
your own scientific undersanding. But, that is another story.

According to Dr, Hawking, whose name says that he is a disciple of Jesus Christ, and whose mind, even
though his body is in a wheel chiars, soars in the heavens like a hawk, we can discover these things for
ourselves using experiments in thought, listening, considering, rationally testing hypotheses, to
discover the laws of Nature The suggestion is we don’t need to do it necessarily or primarily thinking
about laws of faith in God.

We start off this journey of discovery with the great understanding at the macroscopic level of the laws
of nature that Isaac Newton helped us discover, that if we conduct experiments from the same starting
conditions, every time we will be led to the same results. The future of the Universe is therefore
predictable and works like a complicated clockwork, which some one has already built and set in motion
to operate independently of our own actions and efforts. God does not intervene in order to break the
laws of nature, hence free will is an illusion.

But, later on we discover that at the smaller microscopic level of quantum physics things are not so
predetermined. When we try to measure more precisely location and velocity of particles we cannot .

We discover that the Universe is predetermined, but has options. We can take credit for our actions if
all possible outcomes of events can occur, but it is us individually which choose a thread of them
through time that gives meaning and continuity to what has happened in terms of a higher level
[hopefully, lovingly and faithfully eternal in time] understanding of it all. It is our duty as scientists and
humans to come up with the best understanding of what has happened in each present moment, as
eternal present moments. If we understand this, we understand that our future is of our own making.

We are here to see the One Universe among all the other multi-universes in us as the one which is
and will be who we are, It is the very one which we are in now. Why are we here, Dr. Stephen Hawking,?
we are here because of you. Or, to be more precise, we are here, because of God dwelling inside of you
as a disciple of Christ whose mind soars in the heavens like a hawk. Where did you come from? As you
say in the program, we come from the tip of our nose. For, when we were created, God was inside, not
outside of us.




Here is a thought experiment argument that explains why: “It is not possible to travel back in time
without God’s help.”

Assertion to be proved reasonably, assuming first a Being with primal faith in a final cause (that God
exists): “That although we cannot travel backwards in time, God can and through faith in Him or Her we
can.”


In the first episode of this series, Dr. Hawking, along with his young team of thought experimenters asks
the question. Is it possible to travel in time. They supposedly demonstrate by scientific thought that it
is not possible to travel backwards, but you can travel forward. In the episode he does not mention
God. Good for him. I suppose this is to demonstrate he doesn’t need His help. If you believe that
science and religion are separated as two different things, two different subjects of study, like space
and time are separated and different this would follow. But, I propose the hypothesis to them, lets
consider them, science and religion, as conducted and conduct a thought experiment in time travel like
the one they did, only with God existing along with them in space and time , that is, not outside of it,
and connected to them through a reasonable series of rational faithful thoughts. What is the test of
faith that corresponds to the test of their scientific observations? Is it not a logical truth, that
transcends both scientific and religious truth, based on goal-oriented backward chained reasoning
from a highest, greatest truth in our subjective mind, objective in the sense that more than one or two
of us can see it, hence final cause.

Both scientific and religious truth can be broken down into logical assertions, facts, hypotheses chained
or connected together through rules that classify what we are thinking about into concepts and
experiences. They are connected by unifying patterns of the forms these objects of our thought take,
starting and ending from experience as facts and ending in the goals or final causes we presuppose to
direct or thought.

Is it possible to demonstrate first, before their thought experiment with another thought experiment,
logically that it is helpful to believe that God exists in order to go backwards in time? I think so. even
though we cannot prove from starting principles at the start what we want to use along the way, That’s
faith that comes from somewhere and grows as we proceed forward in our search process.

If you are going to make a case rationally for God’s existence it has to be either using backward or
forward chaining logic, whether the logic exists as experiences in time or not. What is it we want to
know and experience through logical thought experiment: “ Does a Self-Existent, Omnipresent,
Omniscient, Omnipotent Living Being who is therefore the highest and most widespread existent Living
Being existing now, before, and in the future?



Modern Philosophy says no unless we want to argue from assuming already what we are looking for,
what is likely to be the most helpful and most available to help us solve all of our problems without us
doing anything at all.
See Dr. Mortimer Alder’s book on “ How to Think About God” for a rational philosophic argument about
how it still might be reasonable to suppose his existence as a First Cause.. If we have such a First Cause
then we can make him a Final Cause and chain our logical arguments backward through Faith in order to
have Him or Her help us. Faith it the substance of things hoped for some of which can exist in
subjectively and objectively in more than four dimensions of space and time.

In the thought experiment in the PBS series episode the team assumes they exist in a objectively
knowable continuous manifold of four dimensions of space and time (the world) and that they can
observe their continuous space and time coordinates as they travel through it. First they go forward in a
straight line from point A, the starting point, to point B, the finishing line. Then, they travel backwards
along a parallel space time path from B to A , suddenly they see created out of nothingness a copy of
themselves in the same or another car, facing in the opposite direction. Then upon reaching A they turn
around again and drive forward in space time to B observing a second copy of themselves (to make
three cars in all, two going in a forward direction and one in a backward direction). The argument is that
according to the laws of physical science you cannot create mass out of nothing. This is called the law
of conservation of momentum and energy in physics. It says that, you cannot create something that
wasn’t there in the first place. Hence, whatever happened to make the other two cars each with another
two people in them appear of nothing violates the laws of physics.

Now, whether the world itself, us included in it, was created out of nothing, is an important and
questionable proposition for the experiment we are thinking about. Some say yes, some say no. When a
particle , with positive mass, and an anti-particle. With negative mass, are created at the same time,
there is a sense if you are only able to observe the positive mass particle and not see the negative
mass one you have created something out of nothing. This all depends upon whether you first assume
God exists, and if so exists in an over-watching extra dimension of space and time, making more than 4,
at least 5, in total , and hence whether you consider Him or Her Nothing in the total scheme of all the
dimensions or whether you consider Him or Her with energy and mass in an Eternal container
dimension, which inside Itself contains also a lot of nothing (no mass or energy) inside of it .

God did not create the world out of nothing, But He created it out of a non-existent that already existed
inside of Himself or Herself.

Then, He or She created us out of something, Himself or Herself.

One way to test this hypothesis scientifically is to ask for and believe it to be true already (by posting a
prayer on an internet prayer site), and adding replies and comments in a threaded time sequenced list
over several years. Then checking back in say 20 years (or have your friends check back if you expect
to die and be reborn before then, they being the thread of consciousness of truth about whether it is
answered).

By posting the prayers , keeping track of what has happened along the way, adding thoughts later to
what you said several years earlier you can in reality affect the outcome of the experiment. For new
insights gained with Divine help along the way revising and adding to the details of what the goal is of
the experiment was in the beginning is a part of “going back into time to heal and change things” isn’t
it? This can be as much science as religion for modern quantum physics also teaches the need of
changing an observer’s viewpoint over time , objectively or subjectively in order to finish and total up
the results of an experiment once it has started.

Why don’t you conduct this experiment and tell me how it worked out for you, and if you cannot find
God to talk to about it and help you with it, maybe I can help?


What are we? (What is Life? What is human life?)
In addition to the material molecules of the process of life we are also made up of thoughts.

Life is born, reproduces itself reacts to the world around it transferring an impulse from one place to
another. through cause and effect.
Life is not a thing, but a process made up of things in motion. that can last indefinitely. In life random
improvement toward a better and better goal, defined by a higher power, comes about.

But,in addition to the molecules of life being banged around in a confused process of life, we are also
made up of thoughts with intentional and faithful and hopeful goals.

Our thoughts reason backward from these goals,, consciously about how to reach them.