So what if Scientists acted like Christians?  No I’m not talking about the snide, perpetual condescension and whole “holier than thou” attitude.  I’m not talking about the institutional pedophilia, homomisia (corrected homphobia), or patriarchal misogyny.  I’m talking about leveraging your resources against a person or communities needs in order to force them to convert to your way of thinking.  The simplest example would be a missionary holding a biscuit and a cross in front of a starving child and making sure they understand it’s a package deal.   Of course the missionaries justify this behavior with the belief that they are saving that child’s soul from otherwise inevitable damnation. About 20% of the world disagrees entirely and 56% believe they are actually sealing the damnation because it’s the wrong faith, yet they are allowed to continue.  I’m not saying we should fight them or stop them.  Quite the opposite in fact.  I think we should fight fire with fire.

Unfortunately for them, there’s that whole correlation between Science and Technology.  Electronics, Medicine, Machinery, all of it.  Maybe when someone comes in to buy the new Iphone, they have to sign a legal agreement accepting Richard Dawkins as their personal savior and sovereign informer.  Maybe they bring their children in for a vaccine but before we give it to them, they are forced to profess their knowledge of the scientific method and demonstrate proficient understanding of the theory of evolution, the age of the universe and several methods for how these conclusions are proven.

I don’t believe in God for 2 reasons.  Put your shirt back on, I’m not an Atheist in the hard line definition, but as far as the Agnostic spectrum allows, I’m about as close as you can get.  As for the existence of supra-human consciousness, totally agnostic.  I have no idea.  I don’t know enough about consciousness.  But more specifically concerning the Judeo-Christian God that over half of the world worships on at least a weekly basis, I am indeed completely convinced of its non-existence, and here’s why.

In short, Reason and Contrast.

Reason is simple.  Specifically, the reason that God exists, like pretty much every other god throughout history, is simply to serve as a simple (lazy) explanation for why something is happening that cannot otherwise be explained with existing information.  Even more specifically, health, Weather, Astronomy, natural disasters, and food production.  If you get a disease, it’s because God is upset with you, but only because they had no conception of bacteriology or virology.  If it doesn’t rain for 4 months, it’s because you have done something wrong, but only because they have no conception of meteorology, and so it followed for every comet, solar and lunar eclipse, earthquake, volcano, flood, drought and famine.  Famine is my favorite example because it explains so much more of the basis of the Judeo-Christian faith.  Because these ancient people had no concept of soil nutrition, they farmed their soil into complete nutritional depletion.  What are they to assume when an animal is killed on these fields and the seeds they’ve been planting start growing where the blood is spilled?  All the sudden God craves blood, offered in ritual sacrifice as an apology for our poor behavior.  Actually, there are a lot of really great scientific observations happening.  The problem is they had no discipline in their conclusions.  They never skeptically tested the claims of the priest.  No one ever said, “Well what happens when you put blood on the ground without the ritual part?”.  Unfortunately their book has specifically forbade them from testing it, and that alone has made the Judeo-Christian faith, in my opinion, one of the most destructive forces in human history.

Second is contrast, and here’s what I mean by that.  Contrast, just for a complete picture is a measure of difference.  Difference between two different colors, difference in brightness, difference in tone, etc.  I think of contrast as the distance between 2 comparisons.  The comparison is as follows.

We live in this planet, next to our sun, in a solar system with 8 planets with 173 identified moons.  Assuming we are the average, there are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our home galaxy. 400 billion * (173 +8) = 72.4 TRILLION major objects in our galaxy alone.  Now multiply that by another 100 Billion galaxies in the known universe. 724,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 moon size objects or larger.  That’s 724 septillion for those who are unfamiliar with such large numbers.  If you can imagine having a million dollars, times that by 1,000 and you’ll have a billion.  Times THAT by another thousand and you have a trillion dollars.  No one has a trillion dollars.  The top 10 richest people on the planet combined barely have half a trillion dollars. Times that by 1,000, you get to one quadrillion,then quintillion, sextillion, and finally one more time for 1 septillion dollars.  Times that by 724 and that’s how many large objects we can assume there may be in the universe.  The definition of what I mean by contrast is when you tell me there is an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient being that is inherent in everything and intimately aware of everything in the universe, guiding and dictating the natural forces of the universe, in the sun and the stars, the crushing gravity of a black hole, a pulsar, the expansion of a nebula and the spinning of a galaxy….  but that this being is super concerned with whether or not I masturbate and he hates my brother because he prefers to kiss boys…