If you know me, you know that I call myself an agnostic atheist. I “don’t know and don’t care” if there is a God. I do believe that there is something out there, but something that is so grand that it is beyond our understanding to describe and insulting for us to even try to think that we can do it any justice in our descriptions. Religion afterall is a man made concept and it’s role in the world is to control a population without the need for a police force, using moral rather than martial means to control actions. I do feel however that we are all connected – afterall, everything in the universe was created at the same time (it boggles my mind that the water that we drink likely has hydrogen the same age as the universe, give or take some nano seconds or perhaps years), so through my lay understanding of string theories, we must be connected right?
That brings me to the inspiration for this post. God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger claims to have scientific proof that God doesn’t exist. Now, while that may be true, I don’t think that Stenger or any of the people who use religion to disprove science or the other way around realize is that those who are truely at the top of their respecive fields in this debate often look to the other side. There are many researchers that I know who don’t believe in God, but certainly think that there is something out there and the few priests in various religions that I know do look to science to help them understand the process (not the reason mind you) behind certain events.
Personally, over the last month with the passing of my uncle, I can tell you that without believing in God, I know that there was something, either emergant or extant that was in the hospital room keeping him alive and if you want to call that God, go ahead, but I don’t care what kind of scientist you are, if you do accept that it is possible that there was something in that room, you are blind and not willing to step beyond a mere word to investigate something that may or may not be there.
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