Learning about crossovers helped convert me from atheist to a believer in God


Let’s see if this one survives.    

I have been an atheist for 50 years.  Recently I became a believer.  One factor that helped tip the scales is the “fine tuned universe” argument - the idea that the physics constants, e.g. the mass of an electron, are so finely “selected” that if they weren’t very close to what they are, life wouldn’t exist.  This is an argument for a creator.  The best counter argument seems to be that there are an infinite number of universes and we got lucky.  

When I got into audio, and started learning about crossovers, I was ASTOUNDED at how well the pieces fit together.  Octaves are exact doubles of frequency.  3dB describes so many seemingly unrelated phenomena.  But the one that really got me was the magic of capacitors and inductors.  They share no parts, other than wires sticking out at each end (usually), one acts due to voltage, one acts due to electromagnetism, one resists AC, one resists DC.  And yet, somehow, they are mirror images of each other, using almost exactly the same equations, behaving perfectly orthogonal to each other, even to the extent of how powerfully they perform their function (3dB again).  How is this possible?  Could this have happened due to random chance?  I smell a creator.  

alanhuth

It is extraordinary that men does not know what is free will...

All there is in the world perceived as evil comes from men...

The rest is accident and wait for human awakeness.... My body will go to the floor soon and i will quit it...So what ? my consciousness is not my body...

Consciousness is the only existing reality.... All there which occur, occur between consciousness...

Nothing is forgotten ... The information field is infinite... His image is number theory itself...

The OP stumbled on a phenomenon that has awaken his memory of the source so what ?

I bought a book about mammal physiology , the best ever, 1,500 pages, reading it , it is impossible not to enter in awe ....

Someone studying projective geometry who does not stay in awe dont really see geometry music..

Acoustic is a mystery... Studying it is becoming awake.... Everything speak of the ONE or the source...

Linguistic is so deep that it rival mathematic...And it speak about an intelligence exceeding any human speaker... We use divine tool without even knowing what we did when speaking... Study linguistic and awake yourself...

Only those willing to stay blind and deaf for a short time for a reason of their own free choices thinks that death is the only reality for a very short time ( 80 years average )...

The only self sustaining process is unconditional love , it is the only universal infinite process which remember anything as if it was HIM who goes into the process... HIM is the paradoxically impersonnal source manifested as a single consciousness... Call it God or your mother or an ant... No difference... it is the same HIM and it is the same THAT...

I dont believe all that i just written...

I perceive it , i imagine it in a creative way , i read it in mathematics as the law of the infinite...I felt it inside me...

How many people know that all Cantor transfinite theory pre-axiomatization comes from the three contemplative methods of a mystic : Pseudo-Dyonisos the Areopagite.. If mathematic fundamental theory itself is based on spiritual vision of the infinite, why negating his value without grasping it first ?

Men are free to stay where they are and free to be no more slaves of the corporations.. They are lazy...

They prefer to say to someone : you wear a "tin foil hat"...

The staggering ignorance because people want to keep their beliefs is staggering...

For someone who open his eyes there is no more beliefs, because he look at thing in a creative imaginative way , he dont need to imagine them obeying his past dead passive imaginations... if you want to know the difference between passive and active imagination, between corpse and living entities study geometry or biology and the crux of the matter LINK THE TWO TOGETHER... Specialization is the death of science but the bread and salt of industrial technology...Any true scientist become a philosopher... Because science must be way more than mere technology it must become personal knowledge... Wisdom...

Opening his eyes is call thinking... Thinking is putting together all there is in one vision...

Separating things from one another is not thinking...

Hubris is not wisdom...But there is an "intelligence" in hubris and an "intelligence" in wisdom... Dont confuse them... Discern between them...

Bill Gates is not Archimedes...

 

The OP addressed the question at the metaphysical level, and the discussion should have stayed there. OP merely rehashes the tired argument from design. Well, the beauty of symmetry and predictability of physical laws don't imply a designer, and the "randomness" and "alternative universes" oppositions are straw men long since burned down. Either matter and energy will exist or they won't. As it happens, they do, so to speak of nothingness is to speak idly. So if existence is the case, that which exists will express the laws necessary to its existence and behavior, including the interconvertibility of matter and energy. We humans, extreme latecomers to this universe existing for billions of earth years before our arrival, whose existence was made possible only by temporary conditions on one obscure planet (out of perhaps a decillion others about which we know little or nothing), NATURALLY find beauty in the symmetries of mathematics, electricity, gravity, magnetism, etc., because we are creatures of those forces. Just as children love their parents, we all love the natural world IN WHICH, AND ALONG WITH WHICH, WE COEVOLVED. How could we not find it beautiful?  If there were a designer, then how come we humans capable of appreciating this "design" were a mere afterthought in the nature of an asterisk on a footnote arriving after eternities of astrophysical wonders beyond comprehension? Yet mathematical truths, like gravity, were there all along, just with nobody around (that we know of) to declare them beautiful or symmetrical or harmonious or mysterious.

Great post!

The peroblem in your post is that you suppose a separation , a dualism , between matter and consciousness,  BUT this Cartesian dualism died with quantum mechanics...

His death was analysed and predicted by Alfred North Whitehead, he called it the Cartesian bifurcation , and call the unability to be conscious of this bifurcation of tought  and his consequences a fallacy;  "one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion, or concept about the way things are for a physical or "concrete" reality"...

When men think that an outer material substance is more real than their own thought process and consciousness...This outer substance is a reified abstraction called "matter"... Heisenberg put it at rest for eternity... After him man must distinguishe as the physicist Wolfgang Smith described : sub physical abstraction of physics with phenomenal corporeal qualitative reality and vertical transcendant spiritual reality...

 

The OP addressed the question at the metaphysical level, and the discussion should have stayed there. OP merely rehashes the tired argument from design. Well, the beauty of symmetry and predictability of physical laws don’t imply a designer, and the "randomness" and "alternative universes" oppositions are straw men long since burned down. Either matter and energy will exist or they won’t. As it happens, they do, so to speak of nothingness is to speak idly. So if existence is the case, that which exists will express the laws necessary to its existence and behavior, including the interconvertibility of matter and energy. We humans, extreme latecomers to this universe existing for billions of earth years before our arrival, whose existence was made possible only by temporary conditions on one obscure planet (out of perhaps a decillion others about which we know little or nothing), NATURALLY find beauty in the symmetries of mathematics, electricity, gravity, magnetism, etc., because we are creatures of those forces. Just as children love their parents, we all love the natural world IN WHICH, AND ALONG WITH WHICH, WE COEVOLVED. How could we not find it beautiful? If there were a designer, then how come we humans capable of appreciating this "design" were a mere afterthought in the nature of an asterisk on a footnote arriving after eternities of astrophysical wonders beyond comprehension? Yet mathematical truths, like gravity, were there all along, just with nobody around (that we know of) to declare them beautiful or symmetrical or harmonious or mysterious.