God Infinity
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:59 am
Replace the notion of God by Infinity.
The label “God” has served its purpose. It needs updating. I suggest that it be replaced by Infinity, shortened to”Infy” for children. Infinity is the origin of everything in SPACE but during my 93 years I found it largely ignored. Peculiar, because Infinity has 2 spatial directions: large and small.
We are free to believe what we like. While beliefs serve a purpose, beliefs are not facts. We would not cross a road without believing the road to be clear. Science uses FACTS, but even scientific tests are preceded by scientist’s mere belief that something might be so. Research and tests are then used to prove that the believed assumption was either false or correct. During recent decades Science has taken increasingly larger strides. We can now walk on the moon and send investigative probes into space! Looking back to my childhood about the current Mobile ph driven teenagers: they can take not just photos but videos-with-sound and can instantly send such to anywhere in the world! The widening of our horizon has made religions less relevant, as shown by the dwindling church attendances. The TV, Movie and Sports industries are thriving on it, creating wealthy “Stars” and “Heroes”. Need I note that Professional sport is not sport; it is entertainment. Profit is the objective.
Our infinite Universe. Astronomy has increasingly widened our understanding of the universe. The Universe is INFINITE. The size of Infinity was made clear at school by taking any little stick, and in our mind doubling its length, again, and again, continue doubling it, longer and longer, until you realise that you are getting beyond our imagination and reaching into the endless INFINITY of the Universe. However, I have never been told, it appears commonly overlooked that there is another side to Infinity. Take your imagined stick again but this time break it in half, and keep breaking one half into smaller halves, again and again, smaller and smaller, the pieces will become too small to cut, too small to see, but we know that there is smaller than small. In fact it also will never come to an end in the endless “smaller aspect of infinity”. Thus: INFINITY is not just out there in Space beyond our Universe but also right here where we are. We live in it; it surrounds and penetrates us and everything. We stand with our feet on Planet Earth, held to the ground by its gravitational pull. Astronomy tells us that everything in Space is held in place by forces of the infinite Universe. Science suggests that there will have been a starting point in “time” when only a primordial atmosphere existed and that the first MATTER may eventually have formed from “non-matter”. Astronomical-spans-of-time later Life may have formed from the sun’s rays shining on some astronomical “soup”. During more astronomical-spans-of-time such LIFE evolved, successively at least into the variety of life that exists with us now on Planet Earth. It remains to be seen if there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The difficulty is that we do not know what forms of life there may be; some may be totally beyond our observation abilities.
Humans. We are all born with a free will, but we are not all born equal. We gradually become aware that our siblings and friends have different abilities and handicaps. The world produces leaders and followers, bosses and servants, have and have-nots, etc. We come to realise at some stage that we have landed on Planet Earth in an environment of which we had no choice, rich or poor, healthy or sick, clever or stupid and . . . . with whatever religious belief. Religious believers may mean well but may be wrong, which makes me writing this.
God. Where did the “God” concept come from? The word God, and its translations into other languages, is just a “label” which one of our earliest forefathers invented for the almighty powers behind natural events, invisible but omnipresent powers, beyond our comprehension. Natural phenomena like thunder and lightning gave rise to Gods-for-Volcanoes etc. and a plethora of religious beliefs. Some created an Almighty God as the Omnipresent Power.
Bibles. Historically, major events are noted in records. Thus our forefathers recorded their Almighty God beliefs in a “Bible” and other such Holy Books. The Adam & Eve story came from someone’s imagination. Objectively, these books are just like children’s Story Books with Fairy Tales, informing about good & bad; harmless, were it not for some fanatics who self-righteously promoted Biblical stories as facts. Such fanatic believers cause religious disputes. Some feel to have a God-given duty to kill infidels. History Books describe ”Holy Wars”. There are still plenty of religious zealots today who feel to have a God-given right to bully others, be it about abortion, homosexuals or allocated boundaries such as in the Middle East.
QED: it is time to eliminate the label “God” and to gradually replace that word by the more realistic “Infinity”, readily shortened to ”Infy” for children, as the origin of all and everything in the SPACE in which we live on planet Earth. It is essential to be aware that Infinity has 2 spatial directions: large and small.
The label “God” has served its purpose. It needs updating. I suggest that it be replaced by Infinity, shortened to”Infy” for children. Infinity is the origin of everything in SPACE but during my 93 years I found it largely ignored. Peculiar, because Infinity has 2 spatial directions: large and small.
We are free to believe what we like. While beliefs serve a purpose, beliefs are not facts. We would not cross a road without believing the road to be clear. Science uses FACTS, but even scientific tests are preceded by scientist’s mere belief that something might be so. Research and tests are then used to prove that the believed assumption was either false or correct. During recent decades Science has taken increasingly larger strides. We can now walk on the moon and send investigative probes into space! Looking back to my childhood about the current Mobile ph driven teenagers: they can take not just photos but videos-with-sound and can instantly send such to anywhere in the world! The widening of our horizon has made religions less relevant, as shown by the dwindling church attendances. The TV, Movie and Sports industries are thriving on it, creating wealthy “Stars” and “Heroes”. Need I note that Professional sport is not sport; it is entertainment. Profit is the objective.
Our infinite Universe. Astronomy has increasingly widened our understanding of the universe. The Universe is INFINITE. The size of Infinity was made clear at school by taking any little stick, and in our mind doubling its length, again, and again, continue doubling it, longer and longer, until you realise that you are getting beyond our imagination and reaching into the endless INFINITY of the Universe. However, I have never been told, it appears commonly overlooked that there is another side to Infinity. Take your imagined stick again but this time break it in half, and keep breaking one half into smaller halves, again and again, smaller and smaller, the pieces will become too small to cut, too small to see, but we know that there is smaller than small. In fact it also will never come to an end in the endless “smaller aspect of infinity”. Thus: INFINITY is not just out there in Space beyond our Universe but also right here where we are. We live in it; it surrounds and penetrates us and everything. We stand with our feet on Planet Earth, held to the ground by its gravitational pull. Astronomy tells us that everything in Space is held in place by forces of the infinite Universe. Science suggests that there will have been a starting point in “time” when only a primordial atmosphere existed and that the first MATTER may eventually have formed from “non-matter”. Astronomical-spans-of-time later Life may have formed from the sun’s rays shining on some astronomical “soup”. During more astronomical-spans-of-time such LIFE evolved, successively at least into the variety of life that exists with us now on Planet Earth. It remains to be seen if there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The difficulty is that we do not know what forms of life there may be; some may be totally beyond our observation abilities.
Humans. We are all born with a free will, but we are not all born equal. We gradually become aware that our siblings and friends have different abilities and handicaps. The world produces leaders and followers, bosses and servants, have and have-nots, etc. We come to realise at some stage that we have landed on Planet Earth in an environment of which we had no choice, rich or poor, healthy or sick, clever or stupid and . . . . with whatever religious belief. Religious believers may mean well but may be wrong, which makes me writing this.
God. Where did the “God” concept come from? The word God, and its translations into other languages, is just a “label” which one of our earliest forefathers invented for the almighty powers behind natural events, invisible but omnipresent powers, beyond our comprehension. Natural phenomena like thunder and lightning gave rise to Gods-for-Volcanoes etc. and a plethora of religious beliefs. Some created an Almighty God as the Omnipresent Power.
Bibles. Historically, major events are noted in records. Thus our forefathers recorded their Almighty God beliefs in a “Bible” and other such Holy Books. The Adam & Eve story came from someone’s imagination. Objectively, these books are just like children’s Story Books with Fairy Tales, informing about good & bad; harmless, were it not for some fanatics who self-righteously promoted Biblical stories as facts. Such fanatic believers cause religious disputes. Some feel to have a God-given duty to kill infidels. History Books describe ”Holy Wars”. There are still plenty of religious zealots today who feel to have a God-given right to bully others, be it about abortion, homosexuals or allocated boundaries such as in the Middle East.
QED: it is time to eliminate the label “God” and to gradually replace that word by the more realistic “Infinity”, readily shortened to ”Infy” for children, as the origin of all and everything in the SPACE in which we live on planet Earth. It is essential to be aware that Infinity has 2 spatial directions: large and small.