1.0 START HERE

King Solomon wrote "there is a time for everything under heaven".. and this has often seemed to be the case for the really big ideas or movements in human history. From stone to copper, bronze, iron and eventually the accidental discovery of steel, mark material technology advancements along the human journey. These new materials enabled us to create new machines from better ploughs to printing presses, the internal combustion engine, road and rail transport and the aeroplane. Two things stand out to me.. the first is that it is a journey through ever increasing knowledge and technology.. and the second it didn't take long. All of human history occurred within 6 thousand years. It took a mere 66 years to go from the Wright Brothers first powered flight in 1903 to the moon in 1969!



We are each dealt a set of cards when we are born.. where, when, to which family, with what resources.. wealth, property, education, personal traits, intelligences, strengths and weaknesses. Some of us also get to live long enough to play some of those cards.. some don't.. we are governed by the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Whoever we are those circumstances were not of our choosing. My father survived the second world war as a tank driver from 1939.. through Dunkirk, D-Day to 1945.. his two brothers did not. One shot in Burma fighting the Japanese and one blown out of his Lancaster on just his fourth raid as a navigator, fighting the Germans. To date I have had both German and Japanese friends, I am positive about them, their countries, including their history and their technology. My war hero would be Captain Lansdorf of the German pocket battleship Graff Spee.. he sunk 50,000 tons of allied shipping without killing a single allied merchant sailor. All the allied merchant captains he took from their ships before sinking them went to his funeral in Montevideo after his suicide. He played his cards honourably, his way in spite of a rough deal.


This blog goes backwards for a simple reason.. its a journey with a beginning and an end and you must start at the beginning. Its my journey but it has some painfully relevant truths for others who may be tempted to ask the same questions. Its not for the faint of heart.. for if you choose to follow my lead here you may also take a parallel journey.. which could cost you heaps.. we all have truth we don't want to know.. my advice.. try to keep that list as small as possible. If I fail to deeply offend both religious and secular readers I will have done a bad job.

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2.0 Why Now

The question “Who is God” may only be asked if you know God actually exists.. ie you have a verifiable means of concluding that. Well that was the whole purpose of “The God Law”.. apart from some technical appendices I will be adding, the 'proof' is complete.. Design without a Designer is falsified and we have a Designer. The naturalists have had 150 years or more to keep God out of science behind an ever growing mountain of publications, papers, books and articles and freedom in the media. It seemed only natural, after the political idea of the separation of church and state (as late as JFK), why not in science? It works well for most science, only the very remotest edges of scientific enquiry suggest the slightest possibility of the supernatural, (like what caused the Big Bang Singularity), and even these can apparently be theorised without the need for the supernatural. So what's the point? It will surely just create an unnecessary metaphysical mess! Well I very much respect all those in science who under the 'secular assumption' have and continue to pursue 'truth', for that is the purpose of science.. think about it. Alas for a certain significant group that is no longer the case, and has not been since about the time of the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. That is a most unfortunate and decidedly bad outcome for science, but more so for you if you have been caught up with it. Well the time for the rule of secular naturalism in science and Western education is over. A proof is like a death.. and just like the end of phlogiston, force at a distance, spontaneous generation and the geocentric solar system, so it will be for evolution by natural selection, its time has come!


Now create means more than just make. You can make an existing design but you create something new by writing a new specification. That is precisely what evolution cannot do. However before manufacturing a design important decisions have to be made.. What materials are needed and from what source? What tools or machines are required? How many to make? Where? What quality standard? We do that in a planning process. Only then can the manufacturing process begin. Why am I going on about all that? Simple.. DNA carries all the instructions for doing the same for the design, planning and manufacture of life.. all technology works like this be it human technology or biotechnology.

If as asserted the DNA molecule was designed.. it follows that the designer not only knows about technology but must be capable of implementing it. So for each DNA 'family' so designed (eg cats, horses).. the designer must also have physically created the initial, mutation free pair. The mystery of the origin of life is no longer a total mystery.


Basis of all technology:

           PURPOSE  ->  DESIGN –> PLAN -> MAKE = CREATE (QED)


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3.0 Who Am I

I am an Australian but like many Aussies I came from somewhere else.. specifically Barnsley, Yorkshire UK 1959 at age 10. I remember browsing through Arthur Mee's Children’s Encyclopaedia, spellbound at the history of humanity and our technology and the question about the existence of God. We left the books in England but the wonder and hunger to know stuck fast. After some creative efforts with model aeroplanes at Liverpool Boy's High School (Sydney) I wanted to be an airline pilot.. but I was out gunned, too many good guys (quick thinking, confident types). In spite of me and my Yugoslav mate blowing ourselves up with the aid of stolen chemistry gear, I still wanted to pursue a career in aviation technology. I ended up doing a degree in Aeronautical Engineering at UNSW and notwithstanding an interlude of 18 months in Her Majesty's Royal Australian Army, I graduated in 1972. I didn't go to Vietnam but I did meet God..


I think there is a price to pay for not pursuing truth. Take the terrible natural disasters of flood, fire, earthquake etc. If the victims had known and understood even one single truth about the coming catastrophe and acted appropriately they would not have died. The time and strength of earthquakes and tsunamis is not knowable but in some other cases it is. Like with the rumblings of Mt Vesuvius, if the inhabitants of Pompeii had known the truth about what a volcanic eruption could do they could have escaped. If we had known the truth about asthma in Oct 1988 our ten year old daughter Ruth would not have died. I was called up in 1969 during the Vietnam conflict and it was at that time that I determined to settle the question about God once and for all. Who is he, what if anything had he to do with my life, my time? Silence would have been a definite nothing..


I asked three questions in strict privacy and arrogantly demanded a written answer on a single sheet of paper with a diagram. The three questions were as follows:

1. Where does evil or my sense of it come from?
   
2. Do I have to wear a cassock?
   
3. Is there anything after death?
   

The second has to do with my brother and myself being drafted into the local Anglican Church choir at about 9 and bears on the question of the meaning of all religious apparel and ritual. All I know is after about two weeks I had that piece of paper in my hand. The man who wrote it out had a bible in his hand and he answered the questions clearly not having the foggiest idea of my private arrangement with God. I had to think long and hard about it all.

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4.0 The God Law

Yes I am a theist.. so was Charles Darwin.! I hope you will understand however that my journey to theism was because I wanted to know the truth about things and not because of any of the reasons Richard Dawkins rightly states are "bad reasons to believe"..
[ref: 'A Devils Chaplain' by Richard Dawkins Ch 7 A Prayer for my Daughter] in which he concludes three bad reasons to believe anything are;
1. Tradition.. something we always believe
2. Authority.. someone too important to question said it
3. Revelation.. meaning a thought without any corroborating evidence

So truth is vital in this context and the reason for this particular blog. The God Law is the poof that evolution theory is completely falsified by a law of thermodynamics called the Second Law. The direct implication being there exists an infinite mind outside of the universe who created it.. hence the title 'The God Law'. In scientific circles we are now in a fairly lonely place.

A proof in science is like a death it means a number of other propositions are not true. Someone said we cannot 'prove' anything in science only 'disprove' theories. Please understand my aim is truth.. however confronting or painful that may be

That God exists and must be a Creator of incomprehensible wisdom.. is science's Rubicon.! I am calling this creator 'God' simply by appeal to Okum's Razor.. its the simplest.. as it accords with a the vast majority of theists.

So what is truth.? Pilate's question to Jesus was somewhat rhetorical but mainly concerned his legal position. I want a scientific one.. It was only touched on in 'The God Law' but now we must take a closer look.. next time.


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5.0 Truth and Reality

I have a presentation in the form of a Powerpoint Chart called 'The Truth - Confidence Chart'. It has a horizontal axis upon which the strength of evidence is scaled (-ve being contrary, zero, none and positive an increasing number of favorable observations). The vertical scale is confidence down being negative and decreasing confidence, up goes to 100% being total confidence.. (I also include the possibility of greater than 100% being over confident). On the chart I plot a 'normal' curve from very small evidence and low confidence to very high evidence and accordingly high confidence. Being asymptotic to two axes at right angles it approximates a hyperbola.. but I do not go as far as to put any 'formula' on it.

Science by definition operates in the low evidence low confidence regime.. ie in its investigative stage (which I would argue is its normal state). By the time theories get established and the favorable observations are high and the confidence is correspondingly high you are in to the realm of Engineering not science. I would also go as far as to say that by the time some piece of 'knowledge' is at the stage of being independently verified and has no contrary observations it would be called 'truth'. Since we will never know 'absolute truth' there will always be some uncertainty however small. Newtons equations of motion reached this point.. perfectly acceptable as 'true' but turned out not to be the end point of the inquiry. That is they were not complete even though reliable within the human experience of velocity.

So I identify at least two types of truth..
1. Absolute truth (not attainable)
2. General truth (independently verified knowledge)

The latter is clearly the stuff of science and engineering but what other kinds of truth are there.?

I set out a by telling some of my story.. its perfectly true, but I could not verify it to anyone else.. so lets call that..
3. Personal truth (verified by personal experience but only to myself)

Is there any other class of truth.? You may have heard the term 'Deep Time'.. referring to the pre-history of the universe before we existed, (14 billion years according to Big Bang theory). Something totally outside human experience.. not open to direct measurement. I want to introduce the concept of 'Deep Truth', also meaning truth not open to direct verification.. next time.

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5.1 Truth and Reality

I am going to gather seemingly unanswerable questions under 'Deep Truth'. They are often intuitive like "Why are we here?".. but at the end of every long line of tough scientific work they are there. The story of our knowledge of gravity is a good example. Until Isaac Newton it was a vaguely defined 'force'. After Newton published the Principia we knew it was an attracting acceleration caused by mass. Even after Albert Einstein's curved space, Newton's Law still worked for space travel. Then came the accelerating expansion of the whole universe, which everyone knew had to be slowing down didn't it? So what was causing the acceleration? We invented 'dark energy' to make gravity repulsive on a very large scale.. and we are almost back where we were before Newton! Particle physicists were also asking the question what gives matter 'mass' and hence the source of gravity. The Higgs Boson looks like the answer but what actually is a Higgs Boson? We might as well ask what is an electron? Not only do we not know but according to Werner Heisenberg we will never know.


Take the unpredictability of a dripping tap or the orbits of three gravitationally bound objects in space.. they are in a state of 'chaos' meaning totally unpredictable.. but why? Thermodynamics was born out of the industrial revolution and gave us the theoretical basis for the efficient conversion of fuel to kinetic energy but what is energy? It is a fact of life that whatever questions we answer leads to more questions ending up with ultimate questions which we don't know if we can answer. Such questions suggest an answer which deeply engages our concept of reality. Quantum theory and string theory have raised questions about the meaning of 'reality'.. and the possibility that what we perceive is only part of a much bigger reality. At this point we are entitled to ask are all the cards on the table?


Evolution as an upward process to greater complexity is falsified (see the God Law). We therefore know that life had a complex not a simple beginning! An inescapable result of the Second Law for all natural processes. Applying the same law to the formation of stars and galaxies.. like cosmic sandcastles on a cosmic beach made from cosmic sand (hydrogen). We get exactly the same answer.. Sir Fred Hoyle said that a big bang only produces an adiabatic expansion and is as dead as doornail. So the creator of life must also be the creator of the complex universe in which he decided to put it. God is an infinite mind outside the universe.. a deep truth.


Please stay with me, leave galaxies, we must ask a very important question; Is there any relationship between these different truths.? Next time


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5.2 Truth and Reality

So there it is we've got: Absolute Truth, General Truth, Personal Truth and Deep Truth.. and what links them all.? Well to begin.. they are all expressing something that is true.. call it an 'actuality' or essential component of our 'reality'. Not only do they all express the same thing each one implies the other.. General truth is only possible because each scientist doing the same experiment experiences the same personal truth. Many Deep truth questions were asked long before the arduous scientific work in an attempt to answer them.. Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? Some will say there are no answers or everyone's answer will be different.. both tantamount to saying "there is no such thing as truth". I reject that but freely acknowledge I must first BELIEVE there are answers BEFORE I can even begin to ask the questions.. so TRUTH itself is RECURSIVE!! I simply must quote the Bible at this point..

Heb 11:6 "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

Well if you read 'The God Law' you will be aware that "Faith' is an essential component of truth because we will never be in a position of absolute knowledge. So if I could put a diagram to this.. I would draw three circles of the same size all intersecting one another with an area in the centre common to all three.. attempting to convey a deep and persistent relationship between all types of truth. So lets have a closer look at this 'Deep Truth'. Firstly what areas of life does it encompass.?

Mathematics is done in the realm of logic where truth and proofs are of the general kind. Although we can explain quite well why division by zero gives an incomprehensible number.. infinity.. we know we are well and truly over the edge when by the same rules we prove some infinities are bigger than others. As well as negative numbers we have irrational numbers, transcendental numbers (like pie) and even imaginary numbers. The Romans did not even have a zero! Some questions can be proven to be unanswerable.. deep truth indeed.

So what of other realms.. physics, chemistry, law, biology etc?

Next time.. do have a lovely day