Tag: faith

Consider a human thought. Every moment of every day you walk this earth, there is a “thought” that appears into your consciousness. Not a moment exists when your mind isn’t accepting a thought in this life unless you’re unconscious or dead.

I used to be an atheist…a strong one at that. I firmly believed that we were nothing more than evolved primates. I firmly accepted that everyone I passed on the road was just star dust…. that there was no real purpose to anything. Even though we as humans can discover subjective fulfillment for ourselves through hobbies, family or career…overall nothing actually mattered in the long run. If everything, one day, will cease to exist…then overall humanity has no real purpose.

As an atheist, I would demand evidence for belief. Science was my God…even though science is constantly changing. It changes so much because really, in the grand scheme of things, we know so little. For some reason, we as humans feel we know so much…when the reality is we are clueless.

Let’s take human consciousness, for example. It baffles me just how lost the most intelligent professors are on this subject. A five-year-old is equally knowledgeable on what consciousness actually is as those with PHD’s. We all start at square one when it comes to knowing what consciousness is…it’s a mystery to even the top neuroscientists in the world.

As an atheist I’d watch countless interviews on consciousness…on what it is. I was blown away on how atheistic scholars would try so hard to make sense of it. To reject a soul in exchange for other, somewhat ridiculous ideas. Slowly I began to see that many scholars have internal biases against a higher power, that the idea of one isn’t something they would want to whisper to themselves. They wouldn’t even flirt with the idea of a “soul”. Not possible, door was shut in their minds to this.

Consider that when a professional performs an autopsy on a brain…he doesn’t see their thoughts or memories. All that is seen is a blob called the “brain”. Wouldn’t it be interesting to lay out someone’s thoughts on a table and examine them? We cannot. This leads me to the point of this post.

There is zero evidence for a human thought. We cannot touch one. We cannot see one. Microscopes cannot catch them in its lenses. How do we know that a “thought” is real? Because we experience them. If we did not experience thinking, we could not prove it exists in any way. Science couldn’t do it for you either. Science can only prove that a brain is active, that it has thoughts, not what they are. I have faith that you’re thinking when I talk to you because of your human behavior, your eye contact, facial expressions, verbal response etc… not because I see your “thoughts” appearing in my eyesight. ultimately, science hasn’t a clue what a thought is…there isn’t evidence of one except the experience we have in our heads. This isn’t just me saying this, every top professor of neuroscience would agree with me.

How do we know that God exists? Do we see him?

Do we touch him with our hands?

Does a microscope catch him in its lenses?

Has science released peer-reviewed papers on him?

NO.