July 10, 2026
God - the Logical Choice
Timothy Birdnow
This article in Psychology Today discusses phenomenon such as visions or special knowledge or sensing the presence of the dead. It is a universal phenomenon and a very common one at that.
The author links an earlier article he wrote giving the evidence for the individuals about to die or who have seen glimpses of an afterlife - this one talks about those present when someone has died or who had some special event occur.
I've had many such experiences over the years. My best friend died of cancer years ago and for a long time I had dreams where he and I hung out and just chatted. But I kept pressing him to tell me about the afterlife and he said I "got him in trouble" and he couldn't visit anymore. I've had a couple of dreams involving him but he never speaks in them now, not since I got him in Dutch.
And my wife too. As she was dying she had some experiences. She saw a bus outside in the back of the apartment we were living in and said people were getting on. She said "you don't believe me, do you" and I answered "I don't see it but I believe you do". When the time came for her to pass I was sick and in the hospital. She waited for five long days. They had stopped the water and food and there was no reason for her to live but she did. She died the evening after I got back, with me by her side.
Since then I've had unusual experiences that I know are her. I had a situation where this floor lamp kept going off. I would find it was turned off and would turn it back on and out it would go. That was something Cathy would do. I also felt someone slap my leg at one point. And I hear noises in the house that sound like someone walking around. Oh, and I dreamed she called me on the telephone! She said Heaven was great and she was very busy. That was all. I wish I'd had more from her but apparently you only get one phone call in Heaven (like prison, only it's a GREAT prison that everyone wants to break INTO.)
At any rate I've had my share of such experiences. I know many other people who have had similar things.
I remember my mother when she was dying, pointing at the ceiling and saying her brother's name. She could see him up above her!
These are the elephants in the rooms that the atheists refuse to discuss, or they dismiss these phenomenon because they are inconvenient. They blame near death experiences on carbon dioxide building up in the blood stream (what do they have against carbon dioxide?) but they never once think that it is a result of dying and not a cause. They are just desperate to find a purely material cause for such things because otherwise they have to admit there is a God and He really is in control of things and what we do in our lives really do have eternal consequences. They do not ever want to admit that.
So they twist and squirm to dismiss all of this as weak-minded people following an ancient superstition that some scam artist made up millenia ago and everyone just happened to believe.
When arguing with atheists I often bring up NDE's and these ancillary phenomenon as evidence and as witnesses and usually it's met with cricket chirps from our atheist friends. Very few try to argue against this, even though among themselves they will spout the carbon dioxide theory, something they cannot prove in the least. Well, the carbon dioxide theory may work for those who had NDE's, but how do you explain these associated phenomenon with survivors? Anybody?
These are powerful arguments for the existence of God. There are others - the Anthropic Principle, for instance, which is a theory in physics which points out that the universe is uniquely fine-tuned to us, that if you alter any one physical law even slightly, or put us anywhere but where we are life would be impossible. We hit the absolute sweet spot. Chance could not have caused this - while it's not possible to calculate the odds of this universe being capable of producing us, it is possible to calculate the odds of one major amino acid being produced through random chance. Astronomer Fred Hoyle calculated those odds as ridiculously low.
Here is how one website put it:
Proteins, for example, consist of long chains of 400 or more amino acids in a specific sequence. Each of the amino acids in the sequence is one of 20 different kinds, and if the sequence is altered slightly, the protein will not be functional. Moreover, 19 of the 20 kinds of amino acids[2] come in two forms—a left-handed and a right-handed form—but living things consist only of left-handed molecules. Outside of living things, amino acids occur only in a 50-50 ratio of right-handed and left-handed forms. Even if we artificially create a sample where one form or the other predominates, the sample will, with time, return to a 50-50 ratio through a process called racemation.
The odds of 400 left-handed amino acids linking up by chance is less than (0.5)380, and, since the simplest cell would need over 120 proteins, the combined probability would be less than (0.5)380x120 = 1.08x10-13,727.
In other words it couldn't happen in the lifetime of the Universe. That is why Hoyle, a devout atheist, created the Steady State theory which says the Universe has always existed so he could get around this pesky limitation. Life, he thought, evolved elsewhere and just floated in over time. But if it always existed how is there any energy left? Every virtual particle would have wound down by now and we would be in heat death, a cold, empty universe.
In fact Hoyle realized the difficulty, once saying "the chance that higher life forms might emerge from evolutionary processes is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein".
Here is a whole slew of statements made by the atheist Hoyle about the impossibility of life spontaneously generating out of the chaos of the universe.
DNA, and it's older, simpler cousin RNA, are both hellishly complex molecules that could never have come into existence spontaneously. There is no way environmental pressures could have created them - their structure is too complicated and they would have had to assemble by random chance. No "random mutations" would build such a structure.
There are other proofs of God Natural Law; we all understand "self-evident truths" as Jefferson spoke of in the Declaration of Independence. They are self evident because they are self-evident. We know they are correct even without understanding why. They are truths built into the fabric of reality. There is no reason why we couldn't eat our own children, but we all know it's a transgression of some sort of cosmic law that is immutable. Slavery was ended because, in the end, everyone realized it was a violation of natural law. Murder is a violation of natural law and every civilization and even primitive tribal groups ban it. You don't sodomize your mother. You don't do the Oedipus Rex thing. We know these are moral evils without having solid empirical, pragmatic reasons. They just are. Nature and Nature's God. Rights are rights and not privileges because we understand they transcend our human will. They are built into the fabric of reality.
Then there is the order seen in the universe. Concepts like Pi, or the Golden Spiral. Mandelbrot sets! The universe is full of such, be it the spiral on a sea shell and how it is fundamentally no different than the spiral shape of the milky Way galaxy.
Then there is consciousness, something we cannot define and do not understand. Is it created by the human brain? If so, why can the human brain rewire itself through an act of will by a person with, say, Obsessive Compulsive disorder through mindful meditation? How can you have half your brain removed and still live like a normal person? The brain simply rewires and life goes on. Oh, you may have problems, but life goes on. What about split brain disorder when the corpus collosum - the connecting tissue between the two hemispheres - is cut? Two brains, differing personalities, in one body. But again life goes on.
We cannot explain love, loyalty, friendship, beauty, peace of mind using purely material concepts. These all transcend the purely physical.
Take beauty. We don't know what it is but we know it when we see it. And in fact in physics and other hard sciences this concept is critical for determining if a thing is correct or not. The math has an "elegance" that appeals to the sense of beauty of the researcher. That is what tells them they are on the right track. How do you explain that?
That's because it is fundamentally no different than natural law. We knows it when we sees it.
It's why Donald Trump is popular. He's not eloquent. He's not reasonable. He's bombastic and bragadocious and one wouldn't say he was a seductive speaker. But he has something other politicians lack - he speaks with elegance. People hear him and realize what he says is true. It's like natural law or elegance in science -- we knows it when we hears it.
Trump merely speaks the way average Americans speak. He doesn't parse words or use cloying phrases or sugar coats things. Like George Patton he gives it to 'em loud and dirty and then they'll remember.
I digress. The point is there are all sorts of things that suggest the existence of God. The Big Bang sounds surprisingly like the Book of Genesis "God said 'let there be light'". Interestingly enough scientists now believe the Big Bang happened just after cosmic expansion began. This too comports with Genesis "and the Earth was malformed and void and darkness was upon it's face, and God said 'let there be light'". And the universe has been expanding ever since.
There are a lot of things in the Bible that predated scientific understanding. It mentions undersea volcanic vents. It mentions "sea monsters" in the deep, which we now know to be giant squid and like. It spoke of the Earth as "a circle in space sitting on nothing" which clearly shows the author was writing about a round Earth floating in a void. There are a bunch of other things from the Bible that told us what science would later tell us.
I could go on. There are all manner of evidence available to us. There is no smoking gun though, and that is how God wanted it. What is the point of having people worship you because they know for a fact you exist and are just afraid of you? Uncertainty makes everyone make a choice and prove who and what they are.
Just the fact that we have this discussion proves the existence of God. Why would we even think such a thing? The first guy to postulate a deity would have been stoned or otherwise killed by the ancient people when this so-called god failed to protect them despite all the virgins they sacrificed. The idea would have died a dull death for lack of evidence.
And there has never been a civilization based primarily on the atheist model.
I could also mention apparitions of Mary, seen by many people over the centuries, including Egyptian President Nasser who saw the apparition of Mary over a church in Zeitun, Egypt, along with thousands of others. It was on T.V. for crying out loud! We have video of her! But the media won't run them and refuse to report on it.
I myself have had some supernatural experiences involving the Blessed Virgin. I didn't see her; I'm not worthy for sure. But I did have a number of secondary experiences. I saw a giant dove fly above the very place where she was appearing to a visionary named Ray Doiron. (I got on t.v. myself over that one). I've seen some rather stunning things involving Marianne apparitions. So have many others, at places like Medjugorje or Fatima. A friend of mine, a very sober person, saw the "miracle of the Sun" at Medjugorje. as it happened at Fatima in 1917.
And down at my Ozark Hilton I once performed a miracle and stopped a storm by commanding it to cease. I had a memory of Jesus commanding a storm to cease and did likewise. It did. I know; it was the eye of the storm passing, but the time I really needed it
And there are demonic possessions which have been investigated and not just by churchmen. It is an ubiquitous human phenomenon if rare. Oh, and it responds to prayers to God. If there is a devil there must be a God.
Don't like the Catholicism of all this? What about people healed by prayer? Some of it is well-documented.
One or two such things would constitute a coincidence. There are way, way too many. There is a pattern that intersects with faith and with the Cross in particular. At what point do you say the "God Hypothesis" makes more sense than inventing multiple dimensions, unlimited numbers of universes, little green men seeding the universe with life like a cosmic Johnnie Appleseed, and inventing Dark Matter to explain why the Universe isn't expanding faster, then Dark Energy to explain why it's expanding too fast. Occam's razor makes God the simpler, more logical choice.
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I would postulate that God gave us the concept of Occam's razor.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 11, 2026 11:54 PM (gVePp)
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Yep. God is where the chicken and egg debate ends.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 13, 2026 05:52 AM (oflqW)
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