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Proof of God

• The Collected Arguments for God
• Creationists vs. Atheists
• Beating a Not-So-Dead God...Err, Horse
• Confessing My Sins
• The Scientific Theory of God
• Revelations
• Skipping To The End
• Why Pi?
• The FINAL Proof of God
• The Greek Creation "Myth"
• The Zodiac
• The Science of God
• Ozymandias Strikes Yet Again

OK, given the “Science of Gay” and where “Ozymandias Strikes Yet Again” ended, you had to see this one coming. We begin with the premise that the ancient Greeks had a fundamental knowledge of DNA. And don’t come to me and bitch about “proof”. I don’t need a mathematical proof, or a subatomic particle experiment conducted using the “scientific method” or some philosophical debate over what does or does not exist. It is time for all of you righteous, arrogant, close-minded, self-important blowhards to just shut the hell up and allow the common man to apply a little “commonsense” to the situation. And that goes double for you Mr. “have faith in the collection plate”. It is time for the exploited to speak up and explain to all of you “intellectuals” what the hell is going on. I do not need any of that other crap, I am not going to deny what is staring me right in the face.

I learned mathematical proofs in Geometry and Calculus I, II, III and IV, let alone Linear Algebra and Diffy Q. I know all I need to know about Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics. Jeez, god people, come-on. Do you really need to make life that damn complex? I mean, really? Holy cow that is some dry shit. Some dry; ass; shit. Learned it when I needed to and then promptly forgot it.

And the “scientific method”. OK, I learned that. In fact, I even attended the 1989 International Science and Engineering Fair (I.S.E.F.) in Pittsburgh, PA. My dad and I built a wind tunnel out of plexi-glass hot-glued together. It used a Honda radiator fan for power. We flew little balsawood airplanes in it and connected them via a string to a triple-beam balance. Honestly, it was terrible science. The little airplanes just got flung all around in the wind tunnel giving wildly inconsistent readings on the scale. But, in Wyandot county where I grew up, there just happened to be some kind of “Board of Regents” scholarship being given out that year for two kids from Wyandot county to attend the I.S.E.F. without having to jump through the usual hoops, you just had to get a “Superior” at the regional held in Marion, OH; which I did; by the lowest score possible for a “Superior”. But it was one of only one or two “Superiors” given out by that judge that day, so that made me feel a little better. So I went. And it sucked. There were these freakin’ projects like, “Transplantation of Cryogenically Stored Epithilial Tissue” and “Biotransformation of Xenobiotics By Microorganisms From the Ruminate Digestive System”. There were these “7 year study this thing” and “10 year study that thing”. It was ridiculous. I was barely even in school ten years by then. What? Was I was supposed to have started this freakin’ project in Kindergarten for cryin’ out loud? Are you kidding me? Holy crap!

And philosophy, where to begin? Aristotle and some of those other old guys, they had some scary shit. Military states and much, much worse. All justified in the name of “reasoning”. This all then turns into some kind of crazy, analytical quest for God. Is there one or isn’t there one. Do we exist or do we not exist? Is that a shadow on the wall of the cave or is that reality? Dude, if you have to ask dumb ass shit like that, just shoot yourself in the head and save us all the trouble. Solve the mystery man! Go for it! Wooo!

And religion. All of those thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people all killed in the name of “faith”. Countless wars. Unending strife. “Just have faith”. Rings hollow.

To be fair, all of these things have their good points and I’m just taking liberty at their expense in poking at their flaws. But the point is, that we have made up all this crap to try to figure out what has been staring us right in the face all along. All of this stuff. And where has it gotten us? Right back where we were since before recorded history. Right back to our earliest roots as a civilization, well, at least Western civilization. From the EARLIEST tales EVER told, handed down from; maybe, the first people who EVER spoke. Handed down from one generation to the next, by word of mouth, the same stories told over and over again and again. Then, finally written down by Hesiod, the poet, an author. A common, simple man who learned to write. It’s from these stories to which we have returned. It is; commonsense. Commonsense, knowledge passed down through word of mouth. Knowledge that is known because “that’s the way it works”. It’s obvious. Debate, if you must, the exact definition of “commonsense”, but whatever it’s definition; it’s all I need to figure this one out. It’s obvious.

Science has, quite literally, discovered god. Or, to be specific, has discovered the ORIGIN of what we have been calling “god” all this time. We still do not know exactly what god is at this point. Whatever it is, we chose to call it “god” at some point. It may not be something that can be accurately described in words or it may be nothing at all. That’s a topic for a different essay. This essay is about the circle that we have completed in our “oh so advanced” civilization. Apparently, our “oh so advanced” civilization just figured out a “technology”, DNA that was lost somewhere along the line; about 4,000 years ago. And it is this technology that gave rise to the “myth” of gods and “God”.

The irony is staggering. And this, this is the truest irony if EVER there was irony. So, the knowledge of DNA gets passed down in our earliest stories and writings as a “creation myth” and forms the basis for the first things that “man” ever called “god”. These “creation myths” are interpreted and reinterpreted and told and retold and corrupted so many times that their meaning is nearly completely lost. Eventually, the Jews consolidate these creation myths into the unbelievably self-centered concept of “one god and he only loves us” which then goes on to form the basis of Christianity and Islam. And people STILL wonder why everyone hates the Jews? Meanwhile, “philosophers” and “scientists” have rebelled against the “simplistic” teachings of these religions and created their own, the religion of “science”. And science, journeys on a quest for thousands of years and finally ends up right back where it started with the knowledge about what started the whole damn process in the first place, DNA; “God”. That is some FUNNY shit. Actually, considering all of the death and hardship it has caused and taken us to get here, it is so damn sobering it makes me want to cry.

And what of “Eastern civilizations”? Well, Eastern cultures have pretty much the same creation myths as everyone else. In fact, it is basically the same REGARDLESS of which ancient culture you look at. The similarities between Genesis and ancient Greek “creation myths” is unmistakable. And the Greek “creation myth” is pretty much the same as every other ancient culture’s creation myth. Egyptian, Babylonian, you name it. Blah blah blah, heaven and earth, blah blah blah man and woman, blah blah blah, loss of innocence blah blah blah, the world sucks. They’re all the same. Wonder why? It’s because they aren’t “creation myths” they’re THE STORY OF CREATION. Hello!

You’re wrong. You’re all WRONG! Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. The Jews are wrong, the Christians are wrong, the Muslims are wrong, the Buddhists are wrong, the Taoists are wrong, the scientists are wrong, the philosophers are wrong. Everyone’s wrong. The Pagans and their hokey-ass Zodiac had it more right than ANYONE!! The common man had it right ALL ALONG. Live.

So “god” is, quite literally, DNA. In other words, what “man” came to call “god” came directly from an ancient knowledge of what we now call “DNA”. Now, of course, whether there really IS a god and all that is still, technically, up for debate. Remember, science has just discovered what we have come to call “god”, DNA. Whether that is ACTUALLY “god” or not or whether it is “god’s fingerprint” or whether it is something else entirely is another matter. What we have been calling “god” is “DNA”, but what “god” actually is, if anything, is another matter. We may have to completely redefine what we mean when we talk about “god”. For now, “God” is “Science” and “Science” is “God”. The circle has been completed.

So what else can we say? Anything?

Well, I can say this. You know what I learned in high school and in college? It wasn’t the math and the proofs. I learned to laugh and have a good time with my friends and family. And to work hard when I needed to, but not to get all wrapped up in the homework and tests and all that. There’s more to life. You know what I remember about the I.S.E.F? I remember building that wind tunnel with my dad. Boy was that fun. One of the best times I have ever had with my dad. And I remember the kind-hearted guy from NASA that took pity on my rinky-dink little science project and made up some story about this other kid with this fancy science fair project not knowing that weight could be used to calculate force. At least I’d gotten the basics right. Whether he was being sincere or just lying through his teeth, I’ll probably never know. But he sent me on a trip out to NASA JPL to watch the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune where I ended up NOT going to go see Steven Hawking speak when I had the chance. You know what? I didn’t miss anything. There’s more to life than that. I went out and had a good time with the people that I met out there and enjoyed myself rather than go be bored for hours on end listening to Steven Hawking blather on about this or that. There’s more to life than your puny science can imagine and comprehend.

The point is, do we really need to make life more complex than just living it? Of course we do I suppose. It’s all part of the plan, right? Maybe. Maybe not. We don’t know. Or do we? We have to ask ourselves that if there IS a plan, but it is too complex for us to understand, how would we know it? How could we possibly know it? Maybe we can use “commonsense” to arrive at a solution here as well. We can ask ourselves this question(s):

“What are the odds, regardless of their origin, that the story of DNA and its effect on life would somehow survive throughout all of recorded history? Throughout all of the wars and plagues and strife? Through the burning of the library at Alexandria? Throughout death and destruction beyond measure. Through countless ages of fighting and bickering and petty squabbling. Through tyrannical dictators bent solely on power. Through office politics and knowledge hoarding and all the rest of the pettiness that goes on in this world. That this story, this most important of all stories, survived when so much other knowledge did not. And that despite EVERYTHING that could possibly happen happening; that we rediscover this story now, at this point and time when we are on the cusp of unlimited, free energy and have within our grasps the potential to nearly eliminate manual toil and suffering. What are the odds?”

I am the common man, and I say that the answer is obvious. It is not coincidence. And while it is tempting to reach some lofty conclusion, I will refrain for the time being. What CAN be said with absolute certainty is simply this. By either the hand of “man” or the hand of “god”, this knowledge has survived. Someone, some thing or some group has preserved this knowledge since the dawn of our species for some purpose. We may not be able to answer the questions of who, why, how or what that purpose is just yet, but we cannot simply ignore this information and pass it off as “coincidence”. You “intellectuals” out there need to forget all of your prejudices and look at things fairly and objectively and apply a little “commonsense” to the situation. And maybe, just maybe, it is time to stop endlessly analyzing life and its “meaning” and simply live it.