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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
hickamore
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Sorry; you had indeed referenced the prime number sequence; it was others who invoked harmonic sequence and 3dB and so much else that is beautiful and elegant but which nonetheless COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE. OP notes that "multiple universes" conjectures are still around: yes, but not to denote "randomness" as the supposed only alternative to supernaturae. 

Many great minds find fascination in primes. Yours, for instance. Just why, I have never grasped. Perhaps because I see no connection between primes, or their sequence of  vast dispersion, and anything else. But then my mind isn't that profound. Matter can transform to energy, but not a circle to a square. The infinite decimals of pi, and the scary figures of Zero and Infinity, fascinate me much more.

Granted; "matter" and "energy" are placeholder terms for a reality transcending consciousness. (No Cartesian dualism here). And if "god" is simply a label for the wonder of mathemusical physiochemical bioecological phenomena, fine by me. I'm pretty sure that's the "god" that OP and nearly all others are speaking of.

 

erik_squires
16,895 posts
 

I believe in the Dao and the Dao does not smell.

willgolf
945 posts
 

In the end, it does not matter what any of us think.  Believe in what you believe and live your life accordingly.  Music is a big part of my life.  I am thankful for everything I have and I lean on a higher power to drive me to being a better person every day.  Science is not black and white and can be misleading.  

mahgister's avatar
mahgister
13,802 posts
 

I dont believe and i dont need to believe in my nose nor in the Tao , the Tao as my nose had no smell of his own  ...😊

I apologize for the correction....

 

“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”

Tao to Ching

antigrunge2
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@mahgister 

Never mind: What I was getting at is that personal beliefs are an insufficient base for meeting Kant‘s moral imperative and as such are incapable of forming the basis for general legislation, i.e. politics. And for the record: I do not concur with your assertion that there is no more border between private belief and generally accepted truth (lest we accept ‘alternative truths’

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