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We must begin with an agreeable definition of God before we set out to discover God for all readers. With so many different beliefs and various philosophies from Eastern to Western philosophies, we need a generic definition to work from. Let us start our journey by defining God as the Controller of the Universe. It seems all Eastern and Western philosophies agree on that.
During the sparkling 18th-century Age of Reason, the predominant belief was that man could further understand God as man further understood nature, through reason. In other words, we could better understand the Controller of the Universe by better understanding the Universe.
The Age of Reason rose in the 18th century from the 17th-century works of the English philosopher John Locke and his friend and genius, the famous scientist Isaac Newton. For the first time, science was being used by philosophers and theologians to understand metaphysics, religion, and politics. The more the workings of the Universe could be explained through scientific reason, the closer we got to understanding God and his relationship to man.
The authority of government over man versus God or Natural Law was questioned and became a popular issue of debate.
The Age of Neotech in the 21st century will see both a continuation and completion of the 18th-century Age of Reason. For, we have gone light years beyond Newtonian physics that drove the 18th-century Age of Reason. We have advanced to Einsteinian physics and now Neotech physics to offer a major new set of directions for a 21st-century Age of Reason, which will finally complete the great journey on understanding God. Now, let us further understand the Universe, thus get to know more about its Controller -- God. So now, with our advanced scientific knowledge and our newly acquired tool of Neothink, let us go to my father's journal:
"Just remember that you are standing on a planet that's revolving at 900 miles per hour, that's orbiting at 90 miles per second. So it's reckoned that the source of all our power, the sun, and you and I and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. That's figured out as moving at 42,000 miles an hour, in our galaxy called the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars. It's 100,000 light years from side to side and 16,000 light years thick. We are 30,000 light years from our galactic center and go around that center every 200 million years. Our galaxy is one of millions of billions in this amazing, expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding in all directions at the speed of light. It's whizzing as fast as it can go, you know, at 12 million miles a minute. So remember when we are feeling very small and insecure, how amazing and unlikely is our birth. And pray that there is intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause we are down here on Earth."
What makes those lyrics fascinating is that every statement is essentially factual and verifiable. But the song left out the most important part: Probability statistics overwhelmingly reveal that our universe contains at least a hundred million, and probably billions of Earth-like planets populated with conscious beings like you and me. Millions of conscious civilizations exist that are millions of years more advanced than our newly born, immature, still mystically oriented civilization.
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