Hello GII Video, I wanted to share with you a conversation that I had with a fellow youtuber that was sparked by your Optical illusion video. I wanted to share this with you because you seem to want to contend that any God is an illusion, and any logical person must agree. I figured some of the points I made in this conversation might interest you, and since you seem to be a bit smarter than the person I am corresponding to, you might have some real insights and counterpoints to what I am saying. Just a thought. I do respect what you are doing, and know that you are trying to get people to challenge thier rudementary and blind faith, however I think the claim that an individual who believes in God as delusional is a broad sweeping statment that is fundamentally flawed, and just as closed minded as a Christian telling you that you are going to hell for not believing what they do. Hit me back if you like.
So once again, I contest that you bring an educated argument to the table.
"You can't argue with the fact you can't get something from nothing".
That's exactly what the big bang suggests. You seem to be on the side of athiesm, which would hold our scientific observations to be the only truth and the only way to explain the Universe, yet every single scientist, cosmologist, and evolutionist agree that the big bang is almost certain to have happened. That is the epitimy of something coming from nothing. There was nothing, just infinite empty space, and suddenly pure energy (light, and super heated subatomic particles, which appear to be light slowed to a speed where it's particles developed a gravitational attraction to other particles, thus allowing hydrogen to form, resulting in fusion, and stars and galaxies bursting into existance. We can't scientifically explain why it happened, we don't know what the universe was like before it happened, but we know it happened. There is overwelming proof that the big bang did occur, and there was a beginning to the Universe. So what caused it? And after it happened, why did all the physical laws that sprung forth just after the big bang work out so perfectly and so fined tuned that it allowed our current reality to form. (keep in mind the inflationary period just after the big bang defies all of our current physics and mathamatics, it's a miracle of sorts, yet it is agreed by all major scientist that it must have happened. Some how our universe expanded faster than the speed of light just enough to keep it from collapsing back upon itself. Something science, once again, cannot explain.) You are contradicting yourself. If you dont' believe that something can't come from nothing, then you are denying a very fundamental hypothesis that scientist today hold to be true.
Secondly, time is not a man made concept. The measurement of time, as second, minute, hour, day, year, and so on are a man made measurment of our Earth rotating around the Sun. However time is very real, and can be experienced by man liniarly. As Eistien suggested, it is the fourth spacial dimension, and is directly effected by velocity and mass. The faster you go, the slower time becomes, and as you approach the speed of light, time its self stands still. It can be charted mathmatically, tested, and observed. So to say it is an illusion is a rudamentary, and wrong assumption. Now with saying that, an infinite being is very likely, and very possible. Just due to the fact that the Universe turned out just right to be able to harbor life suggest some sort of intelligent mind setting our current phyicals laws just so life can be possible. Scientist can only explain time after the big bang, but that does not mean time didn't exist before hand, and if a being can live in the forth dimension, and directly effect the three dimensional world that we know, it is very possible that this being is made up of pure energy, and can control this energy as easily as you controlling your hand, and all the material you say sprung forth from it's finger tips, is in actuality, this being sacraficing it's energy, what might be considered part of itself, inorder for creation to be possible. These are all just what if's and suggestions, but to assume that an inifinite being is impossible means you must ignore all of our current scientific observations. Time is infinite, mathamatics can define infinity, therfore a being that lives in the dimension of time is infinite to our understanding. These are not trivial points trying to justify a God I want to exist. I was an athiest for years because of a religion that was forced upon me. However the more I learned about the physical laws of the universe, the more I began to understand about the universe around me, the more it appeared that something has had a hand in allowing this Universe to exist. Now if you want to get into the nature of good and evil, that's a whole other topic. Wether or not this being is all loving, all forgiving, and all powerful is totally another story, and I have many thoughts on that as well. I would agree that something in this Universe is completely perverse, sadistic, and loves death and destruction, however with all of the dualities in nature and life that counteract and balance eachother, I cannot say what we know as "God" to be the root of it, or some other force.
P.S. I obviously am smart enough to catch metephores, let alone blunt and elementary ones. And being a skeptic is about keeping your mind open, and examining the evidence that science provides. Maybe you should learn about what your assertaining before you start weilding it as your viewpoint. Obviously you can question other people's beliefs, maybe try examining your own.
