Dr. Forbush Thinks

Insanity is doing something the same way repeatedly expecting different results. This is paraphrased from Albert Einstein. Why would Einstein say something like this? He would say this because he is a scientist. Science is the observation of nature and the description of those observations. If nature were to behave differently under the same conditions science would not be worth the study. And, human life would be subject to the whims of chance and sanity could not exist.

Scientific experiments are based on the idea that they are repeatable. Under controlled conditions experiments can be repeated and yield the same results. Based on careful observations the nature of the Universe is being unraveled and understood little by little.

God is beyond nature, by definition. Assuming that God exists He created everything that exists. He created the mechanism, principles and nature of nature. God has the option to break the laws of nature as often as he wishes in whatever means He chooses. But, as we have observed, he chooses to break the laws of nature rarely. Because if he chose to break the laws of nature often, then we would see the world as a random jumble of incoherent actions. Breaking the laws of nature means that one would observe different results whenever one would repeat an experiment or action. No one could predict the outcome of any action, because the will of God would continuously interfere with the will of man. But, by the observation of nature we know that God interferes with the Universe rarely if ever. God is happy with this and man should realize and be happy with this as well.

Prayer, intercessions, voodoo, curses, spells and magic are all attempts to circumvent nature by using the supernatural. The supernatural of course is what is beyond nature. God, Satan, the dead, the saints or the spirits are beings believed to be beyond nature and potentially able to alter nature. Attempts to use the supernatural to alter the natural world has been declared to be profane, unless it is God himself you summon. But, God himself is believed to be the one and only supernatural being, unless there are others. Some would have you believe that Satan is the evil supernatural being. Some would have you believe that Satan is “evil” nature and God is the “good” beyond nature. The truth is that no one really knows anything beyond nature, because by definition it is unknowable. The supernatural is unknowable because it is unpredictable and unrepeatable. If you know it one day it is different the next because it is beyond nature and hence unrepeatable.

What we do know about nature is what is repeatable. What we do know is what we can expect and what we can predict. We know what the world of science gives us through it record of observation of nature. Imagine for a moment that God created the world 5000 years ago. I wasn’t around 5000 years ago, so it could very well be true. But he created it in a state in which it implies a previous history. There is oil buried in the ground as a result of dead plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. God may have chosen to create the fossils and the oil and the rest of all the evidence that points backward to a previous history. But why? Time is nothing to a God that was never born and lives forever, so what difference does it make. Any act by God that disrupts that natural flow of predictable natural events is supernatural, beyond nature. To create a world 5000 years ago in a state that was flowing forward in time and assumed a pre-history is easy for a God that is beyond nature, He would just need to give every atom and particle in the Universe the same initial conditions that they would have if history had played out as scientists have observed. But, if God did this, then what difference does it make to a thinking man or a scientist? A scientist simply reports what he has observed. And, why would God do this? A religious person should ask this kind of question in order to understand the nature of God.

The scenario where God creates a Universe that is already in motion actually means that God is creating a complex lie. And, if God is “good” should an act of deception be considered a “good” thing? There are obviously people who believe that lying is a “good” thing, when an authority lies, so this is possible. But if we assume that our God lied to us once, how do we know that He won’t continue to lie. How do we know that the Bible sent down from God isn’t a book of lies? How can a God be deceptive in his actions be trusted to be truthful in his writing? So, it is clear that the Bible and the actual creation can not be reconciled in a non-interpretive way. Reconciliation between the written word of God and the actual creation can only happen if we assume that the Bible is written to be interpreted in order to understand deeper meanings. Obviously to do otherwise would require insanity, where we expect different results from the actions of God.

This brings me to Ann Coulter’s assault on the Godless Democrats as she calls them. She assumes that science is a religion that liberals pray to. Her entire argument is based on the idea that science is somehow used by liberals to live their lives. But, since science is based on the observations of how nature behaves, we should expect that everyone lives by scientific rules. We know that if you drop a rock on a china doll the doll will be broken. It is a scientific observation of nature that leads us to this conclusion. To expect that God would reach out his hand to protect the china doll would not be rational. To drop the rock and pray that the doll be saved would be a misuse of the power of the divine. Jesus warned us about this in the Bible. So, I ask you, when are we supposed to live our lives without regard to our observation of nature? When should we ignore what we expect and expect God to intervene instead? I would suggest that living your life the same way and expecting different results is insanity, like Einstein said. When a person’s life is going down the wrong path, do we pray that he change his ways, or do we use the courage and strength given to us by God to help the person change their ways. Praying alone means that the person will continue to do the same things and live the same way unless God intervenes. And, from our observation of nature God rarely intervenes. It would be insane to assume that He would intervene. Instead we are called as Religious people to change things by our works and pray that we have the strength to do it. The effort and the strength needed for our tasks on Earth has been given to us by God and we never know how much we have. If God chose to act in any supernatural way increasing the amount of strength we have surely could never be perceived by any observation or measurement. This is why some people are saints, because they pray for strength and do amazing things. These things could be seen as outliers way above the mean by any scientific observation. In a way this is the supernatural action of God in our world.

If the Godless Democrats are trying to pull people together to make a difference in our society I don’t really understand how that harms society in any way. I believe that the Democrats of the 1930s knew this and they worked to pass the laws that created a society with safety nets. They worked together to build projects that brought electric power to the dark corners of our country. They did amazing things and they understood the meaning of working together to make things better. But, I believe that this message has been lost and the people born after this time see their taxes being spent in ways they question. The Democrats who believe in these programs need to renew the message and tell us how we need to work together on new projects. And Democrats do need to pray for the strength to spread the message importance of working together to complete these huge projects and save our country. Strength is what God gives us and if we have it miracles can be done.

So, are you ready to make any miracles today?





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