Since the Debunking Atheism folks like to post biography and subjectivism as if it were substantial arguments, I’ve decided to post a quick examination of whether God exists based on events that have occured within the last month in my life.
First, I’m working on a new book. This one is set partly in Baghdad and partly in Anchorage, AK. I needed some plot action to occur in one setting while people in the other setting are asleep, but I wanted to keep it all sane so that there are no “time” contradictions in it. So I checked to see what the time differential between Anchorage and Baghdad.
Turns out it’s exactly 12 hours. Pretty convenient for an author, eh?
Lesser mortals would have accepted this as verified proof that God exists. Not I! See, I knew that Baghdad and Alaska were on opposite sides of the Earth, so I just basically guessed and it coincidentally turned out to be easy to do the math.
But there’s more! Since part of the action in the book involves bore tides in Anchorage (specifically Turnagain Arm), I contacted the lovely folks up there in the city of Anchorage and asked for a tide chart. They gave me one.
Now before I got the chart, I had arbitrarily assigned a date and time to the events with the knowledge that I may need to tweak them a lot when I got the accurate information as to when the bore tide would really hit. But (you guessed it), the arbitrary date and time I chose works perfectly. I only had to change one part in one chapter by all of an hour!
What’s the big deal with that? Only this: I live in Colorado. Nowhere near the ocean.
Oh yeah, and the date that I’m using is in the future. The near future, but the future nonetheless.
Lesser mortals would say that this constitutes proof that God exists too. Not I! Instead, I think that this is more easily explained by the fact that even though I’m nowhere near the ocean and have no idea when the tides wax and wane, my body is still gravitationally linked to the moon, and thus my sub-conscious just “knew” when the tides were, and then when I picked a date in the future, I was able to magically make it work because I could calculate (all in my sub-conscious, of course) the effects of the moon and the tides for a place that I’ve visted once in my entire life nearly 10 years ago, and make it work.
So, what does this say about the existence of God? Only about as much as this or this or this or….you get the picture.
