Before the Beginning and after the End

The reality of God has recently been documented through several near-death experiences involving young and old. Several have reported experiences that could not be explained absent some sort of divine encounter as they were able to describe meeting people that they had never known, who had predeceased them. These reports and books describing their experiences are compelling and certainly support some sort of life or spiritual cognizance after physical death.

This text takes a different road to the reality of God. Mankind has been on a journey to study and unravel the mysteries of nature for thousands of years and the progression of that collective knowledge has exponentially exploded during the past two hundred years. Phenomenal discoveries in biology, medicine, physics, communications, electronics, aerospace, and energy production have propelled modern man into a collective mindset of independence from any supreme being. Many today think that a belief in God is a throwback to superstition and dependence of an unenlightened populace baffled by the simple, or in some cases complicated tenets of science. With highly educated biochemists, mathematicians, engineers, physicists, physicians, and computer scientists, modern man has tried to debunk an outdated belief in God as an unnecessary support system for the uneducated who cling to some sort of deliverance from their helpless existence. With the internet and access to all the collective information amassed by all the humans that have ever lived, they believe that they have all the answers to all the mysteries of the universe and that if there are any mysteries they have not solved, they will solve them soon. This concept of collective human deity is unfortunately becoming more of the mainstream in our planet’s most advanced cultures. Many of those supporting these thoughts have discounted the existence of God totally while others believe that if they know everything, what can God (if he/she even exists) teach them?

The problem with these highly educated egotistical geniuses is that they fail to follow threads of evidence that fly in the face of their own scientific discoveries. They trace threads of knowledge with a determined zeal if it supports their own purposes, but they often avoid threads that lead to questions they Can Not answer. This inability to see the duplicity in their reasoning leads them further and further from the undeniable scientific support of God. They tout the wonders of science and particularly the absolute truths of the hard sciences found in physics, chemistry and math, but they fail to explain the concept of infinity in time and space, and the laws of thermodynamics that state that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. “Where did it come from in the first Place”, and how many times will three go into ten. These are simple questions that all the collective knowledge of mankind has never been able to answer. Where did all this matter, to include atomic and subatomic particles, come from in the first place? If we just have to base all our belief in science today on the fact that they just existed, then is that not blind faith in the unseen and unexplained while they demean others for their “blind faith” in God. Where does this stuff come from, how did all the elements on this planet, this solar system, this universe get here? If we can accept that it just was, then why can’t we accept that it was created?

This text will chronical my journey of educational enlightenment from birth through a doctorate in biology with an emphasis in evolutionary speciation (explained in chapter 6). The journey includes answers and questions derived along the way from kindergarten to elementary school, to middle school, to high school, to undergraduate college to graduate school. All along this journey, I was provided with answers to the mysteries of our planet, our universe, and to some extent life, but for all the answers there were many important questions that were not answered, and they were.

1. If matter is neither created nor destroyed, where did it all come from in the first place?

1.2. Was there a beginning? If so what happened the day before?

1.3. How many times will three go into ten? How do we, with finite minds, comprehend infinity?

1.4. If all matter occupies space and has mass, and if a living organism dies, it occupies the same space and mass as it did when it was alive. If it lost life and it did not result in a reduction in space or mass, then life did not occupy space or have mass, therefore, life is not matter. So, what is life? Would it be defined as the spirit?

5. What is the conscience? Is man the only species with a conscience? Was this an evolutionary development? What is the DNA code for a conscience?

6. The questions created through science far outweigh the answers, and a rational statistical analysis of the possibilities of the biodiversity and complexity of the life sustaining biochemical reactions occurring in our bodies every second of every day just developing by random chance are just too farfetched to accept.

Join me now as you follow one scientist’s journey to the absolute reality of God.