The God Hypothesis is a supported Scientific explanation

OMNI-PRESENT, ETERNAL, AND IMMATERIAL The Law of Cause and Effect states that for every effect there must be a cause for it. The Law of Biogenesis, attributed to Louis Pasteur, states that life arises from pre-existing life, not from nonliving material (life as we know it). Both these physical laws together indicate that whatever caused this beginning must have been an eternal life force that exist outside of space and time who intelligently designed carbon based life forms like us along with the universe itself. It must be timeless and therefore changeless without the universe because it created time. Since it also created space, it must transcend space as well and must therefore be immaterial not physical. Lastly, it must be an intelligence since it created human life. Thus, the properties of this cause would be omni-present, eternal, and immaterial as well as intelligent. DISEMBODIED MIND D. There are only two possible candidates we are aware of that could possibly fit such a description of an immaterial, omnipresent, eternal and intelligent entity : either an abstract object (like numbers) or a human mind (or consciousness). Abstract objects like numbers or the logical absolutes cannot be found under rocks or grown out of trees nor are they contingent upon human minds. Our minds simply recognize these necessary truths not create them. Nevertheless, these kind of abstract objects are still demonstrable because we can create physical manifestations of them in reality. However, abstract objects by definition do not stand in casual relationships, so it could not have been an abstract object. Only a human mind would stand in agent causality where a cause would be able to bring about new effects at will without any physical dimensions or determining conditions by virtue of its agency. This is called "substance dualism" where there are two fundamental kinds of substance: mental and material. The mental would not have extension in the spacial and temporal constraints with the universe but occupy an independent "realm" of existence distinct from that of the physical world [1]. However, human minds are understood to be intrinsically connected to material substances that impose limited knowledge and power, so it could not have been a human mind. Thus, if it cannot be an abstract object or a human mind, then maybe its a combination of the two which would involve a disembodied mind where there would not be a brain to impose such constraints. A disembodied mind would explain why you can get a material effect with a beginning from an eternal cause with unlimited abilities. If this new possible candidate should be true, then we should find attributes of an all-knowing and all-powerful being exhibited within the universe. PERSONAL ABSOLUTE MIND The Principle of Universality states, that the same general scientific principles are probably true throughout the cosmos. This principle can bring us to the conclusion that by extracting from the unknown amount of intelligence in the natural sciences to the most likely degree of intelligence that is applicable throughout the cosmos [2]. 1. All-Knowing The BGV theorem predicts a future eternal inflationary universe, which is also a product of fine-tuning. This means there's potentially an infinite number of mathematical relations out there to be discovered. Each of these relations by definition represents a small amount of cosmic intelligence waiting to be understood, so it follows that the universe must necessarily possess an infinite degree of mathematical intelligence. This suggest that the degree of intelligence and knowledge is unlimited. Thus, the attribute of this cause must be omniscient. 2. All-Powerful The expansion rate of the universe, which is called the cosmological constant [3], will continue to accelerate forever. Since this is a product of fine-tuning, it shows that there's potentially an infinite degree of power or rates of acceleration being exerted to expand the universe. Thus, the attribute of this cause must be omni-potent. Therefore, from the collection of divine attributes that were discovered (immaterial, omnipresent, eternal entity, all-knowing, all-powerful) it follows logically that the cause of the universe is a personal absolute mind. FALSIFICATION Experiment #1: Life from Non-life The Miller Urey-experiment attempted to prove the origin of life (as we know it) could have occurred on the early earth under natural conditions without intelligence, but the experiment actually provided compelling evidence for exactly the opposite conclusion [4]. Experiment #2: Mind-Body Dualism Let me provide some context first. Obviously, much of what happens in our minds is influenced by what happens in our bodies and I fully acknowledged this when I mentioned that human minds are intrinsically connected. However, not everything that goes on in our minds is causally determined by what goes on in our bodies. Sometimes what goes on in our bodies is a result of what goes on in our minds. For example, the movements of my fingers as I type this response is ultimately produced by my mental events. Here we have mental-to-physical causation. What explains both this choice of mine and the physical events in my body that are ultimately produced by this choice? The explanation is the purpose that I provide a response to CON's objections. A purposeful explanation is a teleological explanation. In addition, free will is also a mental event. We can make decisions apart from what the brain and body tells us. For example, I have the choice to act upon my emotional desire to have sex after marriage and negate my basic biological desire to have sex before it. Here we have mental versus physical properties. A famous scientist named Wilder Penfield conducted studies that are consistent with my point that choices can be undetermined events with a teleological explanation. In his fascinating book The Mystery of the Mind, he writes the following [5]: 'When I have caused a conscious patient to move his hand by applying an electrode to the motor cortex of one hemisphere, I have often asked him about it. Invariably his response was: "I didn't do that. You did". When I caused him to vocalize, he said:" I didn't make that sound". You pulled it out of me. When I caused the record of the stream of consciousness to run again and so presented to him the record of his past experience, he marveled that he should be conscious of the past as well as of the present. He was astonished that it should come back to him so completely, with more detail than he could possibly recall voluntarily. He assumed at once that, somehow, the surgeon was responsible for the phenomenon, but he recognized the details as those of his own past experience. Penfield goes on to note that, "There is no place in the cerebral cortex where electrical stimulation will cause a patient . . . to decide . In light of his work as a neuroscientist, Penfield concludes the following: For my own part, after years of striving to explain the mind on the basis of brain-action alone, I have come to the conclusion that it is simpler (and far easier and logical) if one adopts the hypothesis that our being does consist of two fundamental elements.' Therefore , If CON can demonstrate ,where others have failed, through one or both of these experiments that intelligence arises entirely from nature, it would falsify the God Hypothesis. In the next round, I will show how my hypothesis has more explanatory scope compared to the null hypothesis and better explains the data. I will also address the other arguments made by CON. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] Michael A. Corey, "The God Hypothesis" p. 241 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org... [5] http://scienceblogs.com...