Let’s see if I can do this without saying fuck … DANG!
One Page Proof of the Existence of God.
The God is Dead basis of today’s science, philosophy, and psychology is still the core belief and
operating principle of modern science. To prove that God exists, it merely takes evidence of the
spiritual in the material. This is what I am providing here. I begin with the philosophers of the
19th century to trace the argument from where it began and up until today and then demonstrate
that intelligent design can be seen in the material and therefore, disprove the entirety of the God
is Dead mentality, as well as demonstrate that all materialist science, philosophy, psychology and
so forth must acquiesce to its superior, empirical idealism. Intelligent design being proven, God
exists, and the entirety of the world’s religions can be looked at as either theories of the Ideal or
theories of God, with equal accuracy. Objective, materialist science is accepted as a valuable
approach to the whole of science but only a small part of what constitutes all of science (as it
excludes all of the Ideal). I start with the philosopher, Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel and his,
Phenomenology of Spirit.
In the Phenomenology (as it is commonly called) Hegel provided a history of the development of
consciousness in an individual or a culture by tracing its history in Western philosophy. 15 – 40
stages (depending on how you count his stages and sub stages) from infantile consciousness to
what he called, Absolute Spirit. These stages were divided into two sets, the first set being
materialism and the second being Idealism. The second half of these stages were rejected by
Feuerbach, and then Marx and Engels. Hegel was rejected by them on the basis that his second
set of stages, which they argued was nothing more than religion, God, and theology. They
accepted the first set of stages, materialism but rejected the latter set, idealism, claiming the
Empiricists, particularly Hume had more than adequately demonstrated that God cannot be
proven scientifically, and therefore, does not exist. This then caused a split in the philosophy,
politics, and economics of the time as Left Hegelians (Materialists) and Right Hegelians
(Idealists).
The left Hegelians, the Materialists, grew into communism and the scientific method, while the
right Hegelians, the Idealists, continued on but were largely overshadowed by the materialists
and this remains true today. The Idealist tradition is carried on by many of the Modernist
psychologists and existentialists such as Freud and Jung in psychology and Kafka and Nietzsche
in philosophy.
The theories of the Modernists (outgrowth of the Idealists) were rejected by the materialists as
well. From this rejection, the materialists, largely represented by B.F. Skinner, created a
psychology based solely on physically measurable properties. For example, where Freud and
Jung would accept anger based on subjective and personal reports, behaviorism demands that
anger can only be said to be present if the subject registers heart rate, breath rate, and so on in
sufficiently mechanical, measurable terms to be considered present, anything else was too
subjective and therefore Idealist.
While the successes of Freud and Jung managed to continue to convince Idealists of the validity
of their positions, the Behaviorists still dismissed them as religious, unscientific, and
unfalsifiable. Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. developed a theory of grammar (formally called
“syntax”) that provided a tremendous challenge to the behaviorists. By analyzing phrase and
sentence structures, Chomsky’s theory of syntax began to illustrate structures and make
predictions about the complex intelligence structure of grammar that a child could not possibly
understand, he demonstrated: a) that there is a science that is better than materialism, b) that
science can be done on objects that have no physically measurable properties (no one has ever
weighed, smelled, or touched a noun, verb, sentence and so on), and later pbralich and Derek
Bickerton proved c) that objects without physically measurable properties can be implemented in
a programming language which of course would be impossible in the materialist framework.
To return to the God is Dead reasoning of Behaviorism or all of Materialism would be to provide
a behaviorist theory of syntax that can be as well or better at programing human syntax.
For the full argument, you’ll need to read my. Econmics, Power, and Group Dynamics.
Feel free to site this and the whole work as a “circulated paper.”