Speak to Reason

Why is it reasonable to believe in and speak to the creator of the universe?

We empirically trace the expanding stuff of the universe back to a point of singularity sometimes called the Big Bang, and all of our experience and normal reasoning patterns are stacked against material just coming from an absence.

Now if a rabbit just appeared on your desk, there is no way you would think it had literally come from an absent nothing. You would look for a reasonable answer to where it came from, because you know and act like stuff just doesn't appear out of an absence.

No one thinks that a magician makes things appear and vanish; we all know that there is a trick, even if we don't know how it is done. If there was no reasonable ordinary explanation for this experience of appearing rabbits, we would consider a psychological answer, hallucination or drink or hypnosis etc.

We don't! So the atheist has only one example to back up a claim for the world appearing from an absence, and that comes from Quantum Mechanics, where subatomic particles can be interpreted as seeming to come in and out of existence.

Although some of them posit purely theoretical parallel universes, Physicists themselves do not conclude subatomic particles come out of absent-ness. Einstein said that the Theory of Quantum Mechanics leaves us with an epistemological problem and not an ontological problem. In plain English, subatomic particles do not come into and go out of existence, it is just that we currently do not fully understand the cause of this situation.

Even if a subatomic particle can apparently come out of absent nothing, it is one amazing leap to an entire universe apparently coming out of absent nothing... if even a rabbit appearing out of an absent nothing is not on the cards, why would anyone think that something capable of producing the whole universe (by "chance") could be an absent nothing?

A Transcendent God in the miracle of creation creates out of nothing, but that nothing is a mysterious presence, and not an mysterious absence.

And if it is reasonable to believe in this One God beyond the senses, it would also be reasonable to communicate with him, even if the words to describe his presence are human and provisional. In fact, it would be unreasonable to fail to commune with this same One. Life might even take on a new dimension, a fifth dimension.

In the New Testament, the Reason and Wisdom pervading the universe from beyond it is called the Logos. The Logos was in the beginning, and the Logos is still penetrating the universe from beyond.

NOWADAYS (and not just nowadays of course) PEOPLE SAY THE UNIVERSE IS ITSELF ETERNAL. BUT EVEN IF IT IS, IT STILL HAS TO DERIVE ITS ULTIMATE MEANING FROM SOMEWHERE – AND ACKNOWLEDGING CREATION CAN MEAN NOTHING OTHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGING OUR TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON THE INFINITY WHICH IS GOD, WITH OR WITHOUT THE SHARP ONTOLOGICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN CREATOR BEING AND CREATED BEING. IN OTHER WORDS, WE DIDN'T JUST GET LUCKY. THERE IS ETERNITY AS OUR ULTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC NON-PHYSICAL GROUND.

May wisdom become you..