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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Miracles of Prayers

by Joey Lawsin

Is there such a thing as a Miracle?

Many religious groups believe that miracles do happen. Miracles can heal the sick, make the blind see, the lame walk, and even raise the dead. And usually, miracles manifest through prayers - a secret personal communication with a divine being.  But do prayers really work? Let us look at why prayers could not get answered by discussing how humans acquire information, how information transforms into ideas, and why abstract ideas need physical objects.

Common sense tells us that every newly born baby or the very first primitive man could not possess or even carry a single piece of information in mind. Both beings need to interact with their external world in order to gain information.  And information can be acquired in two and only two ways. One, information can be acquired by choice; and two, it can be acquired through discovery or by chance.

Information by Choice means information can be learned from teachers, from parents, from books, lessons from animals, from the surroundings, from nature; while Information by Chance means information can be acquired through discovering new things, fortunate accidents,  unknown events, or unexpected experiences from the surroundings.  Whatever the case may be, the acquisitions of information are all definitely provided by the external environment. Mother Nature provides all information known to man.  The single acquisition of information is called The Intelligence Konstant or the Think Factor.

Aside from acquiring information, humans have the ability to transform information into ideas.  Ideas are created by humans. They are the source, maker, conceiver,  inventor of ideas. The notion of god, the concept of philosophy, the principles of science, the laws of government, and the ideals of civilization all are invented by humans. The school of thought that deals with the study of the origin of a notion or idea is called Originemology. This study traces backward in time how ideas evolve, why it was conceptualized,  who conceived it, when, and where it began.

However, ideas are not real. They are abstract, immaterial, and only stay in our minds. An idea of a pink unicorn is just an idea sitting in the brain. It might seem real inside the mind, but it is not real in the external world. It might be drawn on a paper or mentioned in a book, but its physical reality doesn't mean it is true.  Ideas only become real when they are associated with something physical that can be sensed. An idea of an apple becomes real when you are holding one, personally seeing it sitting on a grocery shelf, smelling its aroma, or tasting its flavor. So how do we transform ideas into a reality without an external physical world?

The answer: it can't be done! There is no way abstract ideas can be translated to physical realities without the outside world. This is called The Codexation Dilemma. The other part of the dilemma is that no one can ever think of something without associating it with something physical to claim it true or real.

So, how do prayers get answered? Can prayers be answered by faith or science? If you have a headache, can god relieve the pain or medicine can relieve the pain? If you have an ulcer, can you put faith in God by just praying and be cured; or you will go to a doctor by asking a surgical operation and be cured?


"Miracles only happen when people help people." ~ Joey Lawsin


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Books that I have read to satisfy my curiosity on religion:

A comparative View of Religions - J. H. Scholten
Atheism Refuted -Thomas Paine
Atheism in Pagan Antiquity - A.B. Drachmann
An Atheist Manifesto - Joseph Lewis
A study of the Messiah - J.E. Talmage
A System of Logic - J.S. Mill
An Outline of Occult Science - Rudolf Steiner
Bible Myths and Parallels in Religion - T.W. Doane
Babylonian Legends of Creation - E.A. Budge
Common Sense -Thomas Paine
Criticism on The Origin of Species - T.H. Huxley
Christian Mysticism - W.R. Inge
Cosmic Consciousness - A.J. Tyndall
Creation by Laws - J.L. Lawsin
Dream Psychology - Sigmund Freud
Determinism or Freewill - Chapman Cohen
Evolution of Theology: an anthropological study -T.H. Huxley
Evolution: Old and New - Samuel Butler
Evolution of Creation - J.L. Lawsin
Exposition of Darwinism - A.R. Wallace
Einstein Theory of Relativity - H.A. Lorentz
Elementary Theosophy - L.W. Rogers
Esoteric Christianity - A.W. Beasant
Feeding the Mind - Lewsi Carroll
Five of Maxwells's Papers - J.C. Maxwell
Forbidden books of the original New Testament - William Wake
Heretics - G.K. Chesterton
Heretics and Heresies - R.G. Ingersoll
History of the Catholic Church - James MacCaffrey
History of Ancient Civilization - Charles Seignobos
History's Conflict bet. Religion and Science - J.W. Draper
Intro to the History of Religions - C.H. Toy
Jewish Theology - Kaufmann Kohler
Judaism - Israel Abrahams
Logic, Inductive and Deductive - William Minto
Lamarck, The Founder of Evolution - A.S. Packard
Mystic Christianity - W.W. Atkinson
Mistakes of Moses - R.G. Ingersoll
Mysticism and Logic - Bertrand Russell
Myths and Legends of Rome - E.M. Berens
Mutation - Hugo de Vries
Nature Mysticism - J.E.Mercer
Natural Selection - Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Originemology - J.L. Lawsin
Pagan and Christian Creeds - Edward Carpenter
Pagan and Christian Rome - R.A. Lanciani
Symbolic Logic - Lewis Carroll
Sidelights on Relativity - Albert Einstein
Philosophy of the Mind - G.W.F. Hegel
Story of Creation: comparison study - T.S. Ackland
The Antichrist - F.W. Nietzsche
The Holy Bible - R.G. Ingersoll
The Freethinker's text book - A.W. Besant
The Expositor's Bible - T.C. Edwards
The Limits of Atheism - G.J.Holyoake
The Ancient History - Charles Rollin
The Sayings of Confucius - Confucius
The Game of Logic - Lewis Carroll
The Gnostic Crucifixion - G.R.S. Mead
The Critique of Practical/Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
The Origin of Jewish Prayers - Tzvee Zahavy
The Analysis of Mind - Bertrand Russell
The Problem of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Brain - Alexander Blade
The Higher Powers of the Mind - R.W. Trine
The Human Aura - W.W. Atkinson
The Legends of the Jews - Louis Ginzberg
Thought Forms - C.W. Leadbeater
The Wonders in Psychology - J.H. Fabre

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