God Exists

Problem of Evil It begs repeating that there was never a religion or philosophy that made the claim that God prohibits Evil and Suffering. In Christianity, God permitted Evil and especially upon his own Son (extreme example of Gratuitous Evil) to show his solidarity with man. Like the Evil in Christ’s Crucifixion, Evil is permitted because there are morally-sufficient and redeeming reasons. At an age of moral decadence, Christ’s death paved way for moral redemption thru examples of his life and ministry. In Abrahamic religions, Evil are essential parts of moral growth of beings that exhibit free will. It is both the act of choosing Good (instead of Evil by agency), and doing Good (in-spite of natural Evil) which are decried as the epitome of Morality. The act of making these choices and the moral growth that comes with it cannot be realized if Evil in all of its forms do not exist. In most religions, happiness is not to be expected on Earthly life. It is a mere transitory state where God tests and hones humanity’s moral growth. This is best achieved with all forms of Evil rather than its subset. It is more benevolent for a God to fashion humanity to evolve with firm and complete moral ascendancy rather than blissful puppets with empty souls. Problem of Objective Evil The problem of OBJECTIVE Evil presupposes the existence of the OBJECTIVE Good. Of course, SUBJECTIVE good and evil exists like how Nazis considered it good to annihilate inferior races, for pedophiles to consider abuse of children as good for their sexual education, and for naturalist to argue that morality evolved socio-biologically such that what is considered good and evil subjectively changes if we evolved differently. However, the lack of substance of subjectivity is exactly why the problem of Evil is treated objectively. But Objective Good and Moral Values (Objectively morally TRUE regardless of the existence of the universe) can only come from God. So to say that Objective Evil is a problem, relative to what Objective Good exactly? Quentin Smith’s Logical Freedom exists and does not contradict God’s nature One is FREE is act against logic. We call them irrational, and likely because of lack of wisdom or intellect. Like humans, God has the ability to make choices except always makes the best and most logical ones since it has unbounded wisdom and intellect. The choice not be irrational does not decree that one has no freedom. Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omni-benevolence These traits are exclusive only to Abrahamic dogma. For example, Shiva is not benevolent. CON insists that the omni-traits are commonly used in the philosophy of God but this only reflects his biased disposition that Western philosophy is universal. Philosophy in support of the omni-dogma is borne from Western Christian traditions. In Christianity however, omni-traits are matters of faith first (based on interpretations of the Bible) before they became philosophy. The proof that God exhibit these traits are provided anyway although this house continue to argue that they are not pre-requisites for God since cause and consciousness already suffice. Creation of universe and multiverse showsextreme potency (potential to realize reality. What could be more omnipotent?) Creating the universe and its laws (includingphysical and moral laws) shows omniscience, or great understanding of those laws Creation as willed by Conscious Desire and virtueof Granting of free will are proof of extreme benevolence Naturalism and UnscientificModal Arguments for Atheism do not disprove God This house argues and it still stands that the quantum-vacuum energy that caused the universe to exist also exhibited intelligence and consciousness. As the cause is conscious, it fits the bill as the physical manifestation of God, and no other labels are best suited. Energy and Consciousness are natural phenomena, and the existence of God therefore is not unnatural. Naturalism only disproves the supernatural claims of Religion. However, God is not dependent on the prejudicial and inconsistent claims of Religion. If God exists, it would have existed “at least 14 billion years ago” and obviously pre-date any civilization and religion. Misbehaving monkeys that evolved 50,000 years ago have no bearing on the nature of the energy in the quantum vacuum. Modal Arguments for Atheism which, instead of being rooted on Science, are rooted on the alleged spiritual and philosophical dispositions of misbehaving monkeys (which CON calls as plugs for the modal possibility, p) are intellectually incompetent. Other plugs provided by CON are not compelling - (i) All sentience is physically realized but Godthru energy fluctuations in the quantum vacuum shows that God has a physicalmanifestation (ii) The universe was created by a mindless supernatural mechanism but Energy and Consciousness are not supernatural (iii) Naturalism is true so does a cause of the universe that exhibit consciousness, which is natural (iv) There are no omnis the same way there are no omnis outside of Western philosophy Retro-causality and Wave Function Collapse Non-Local realism is a technical term in quantum mechanics to mean that there are no local hidden variables that control the probabilistic nature of quantum particles. They are simply inherently probabilistic without underlying or hidden classical mechanisms. The CON like others make the layman assumption that “non-local realism” implies non-reality. This is laughable since Non-local realism do imply realism due to locally hidden classical variables. De-coherence and Information Theory, and not outdated philosophy, are the de-facto scientific approach to quantum mechanics. Positive Cosmological Constant and the Fixed Space-time boundary Due to the positive cosmological constant, the temporal beginning of the universe is true regardless of the quantum mechanical model, including the Hawking-Hartle model. The Hawking-Hartle theory was first conceived (3 decades ago) without knowledge of that fact (positive), but was revised to account for actual observation. What Hawking deemed as no-boundary is a superficial term to refer to negative imaginary time. This is separate from Relativistic space-time, which has a boundary as consequence of a positive cosmological constant. Even if negative imaginary time preceded space-time, it cannot precede the NON-CONTINGENTquantum energy which exhibited consciousness. Quantum mechanical models only describe the nature of the energy at quantum state, and the Hierarchy Problem continues to show that quantum objects exhibit properties of fine tuning. Information Theory and Other causes for the universe CON made the claim that there are other possible causes for the universe but never elaborated on them. CON hides the fact that the only alternative to a natural conscious cause of the universe are natural stochastic or random processes, which he renamed as non-sentient mechanism leading to a CERTAIN outcome. He contends that there is fuzziness in the early universe but fuzziness do not lead to CERTAIN outcomes, they lead to fuzzy outcomes. It is true that fuzziness exists, but so does the extreme fine tuning (which CON continues to sidestep) despite the probabilistic nature of the universe. CON is not so different from the man who won the 1-to-6 million lottery 70 times, except he argues in court for fuzziness and not reasonable doubt. Differential Information Theory simply asserts that it is more probable that the lottery was rigged, the same way that intelligence and consciousness are more probable causes of the universe rather than chance.This is not God of gaps. This is not driven by lack of knowledge but deep understanding of the Hierarchy Problems and Differential and Quantum Information Theories both leading to the conclusion that intelligent signals are present (instead of noise).Due to limited space, all sources will be listed on the final round.