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Stephen Law debunks - and anyone truly realized will debunk - a common piece of nonsense which says, "You cannot prove a negative," such as
"There are no parents who create anything"
and
"There is no Creator God who created 'the world'"
and
"There has never been anything created or destroyed."
All those are non-dual pointer which - as Maharaj explained - can be debunked by science.
Stephen Law writes:
One reason that some people suppose science and reason are incapable of establishing beyond reasonable doubt that certain supernatural claims—for example, that fairies or angels or spirit beings exist—are false, is that they assume you can't prove a negative. Indeed this is widely supposed to be some sort of "law of logic."
For example, Georgia minister Dr. Nelson L. Price asserts on his website that "one of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a negative." If Price is correct and this is indeed a law of logic, then of course it immediately follows that we can't prove that there are no fairies, angels, or spirit beings, or, indeed, that there is no god. We will have established that the nonexistence of God is indeed beyond the ability of reason and / or science to establish!
The fact is, however, that this supposed "law of logic" is no such thing. As Steven D. Hales points out in his paper "You Can Prove a Negative":
"You can't prove a negative" is a principle of folk logic, not actual logic.
A woman that regularly follows this site from Africa and that is following the current series now forwarded a scientific article which she just found which relates to the explanation recently mentioned here regarding "seeds."
She shared the following from the scientific community:
"Ancient meteorites that crashed to earth carried ingredients for life, including water and organic compounds," pointing out that space rocks plummeting to earth could have seeded life."
Seems Maharaj's pointer that science will advance to the place someday where it will substantiate all of the core teachings of non-duality has been validated once more.
She wrote:
Greetings. I wanted to report to you that I might start my own "science and non-duality" blog and title it, "Letters from the Shithole" in honor of the term the U.S. president used yesterday to disparage our entire continent. Ha. P.S. Please don't share my name. I don't want to deal with being targeted by your president and his similarly-ignorant-and-dangerous supporters.
The reply: Thanks for sharing the relevant article and be aware that "Those living in a shithole will necessarily see shitholes everywhere." Yet - as noted on this site for more than a dozen years, when persons claim that they live "in the greatest nation on earth - the U.S.," they will be blind to the fact that the World Health Organization ranks the U.S. healthcare system very poorly at "37th overall among all nations"; blind to the facts regarding the mass slaughter of children sitting in classrooms when their schools are invaded by one carrying easily-accessible automatic weapons;
blind to the way that wealth is reserved for the wealthy only and blind to the effects of that; blind to the killing of millions of indigenous peoples in order to take the land they were living on in order to build their supposedly great nation; blind to their nation's history of invading lands and bombing civilians all around the globe; blind to their entrenched war mentality; blind to their unchecked addiction rates; blind to the fact that they are one of the planet's top environmental polluters;
blind to the duality-sustaining, extreme hypocrisy which is displayed by so many in the U.S.; and blind to the nations' widespread hatred which is rooted in the nations' dualistic, "different from and therefore better than" beliefs which have long been commonplace among racists and which have always been at the core of much of the nation's populace which has hated "the other" from the nation's very inception.
As you know, I visited Africa some years back and found many there to be delightfully wise and all abiding in a land of beauty (though its resources had been plundered for decades by non-African invaders).
Therefore, responding to you from a much bigger shithole than yours,
😀
I return your greetings and thank you for the information you shared.
Peace, Unity, Love and Light, f.
So we see in that scientific information above certain parallels with what has been shared in this series:
No one has ever "made a baby" or "created a child" (or anything else). The only thing that happens which results in "a child" or "baby" developing in a womb is that elements and oxygen and conscious-energy are being cycled through "the mother" and are further cycling in and out of a form and generating - but not "creating" - another elemental plant food body / space which will temporarily house the conscious-energy and circulate oxygen and elements for a spell.
But the key point is: it all starts with . . . a seed.
Maharaj: "The source of all has all. Whatever flows from it must be there already in seed form. And as a seed is the last of innumerable seeds, and contains the experience and the promise of numberless forests, so does the Unknown contain all that was, or could have been and all that shall or would be."
He also said, speaking of the "seeds of consciousness,"
"The tree is already there in the seed. Such is the 'I Am'."
The scientific evidence referenced above makes clear that what happens on the level of "a human couple" which can begin a process of "generating something" by the sharing of a seed is also what happened on the level of "this universe" (and all universes):
"Ancient meteorites that crashed to earth carried ingredients for life, including water and organic compounds."
Those space rocks plummeted to earth and "seeded life."
The First Law of Thermodynamics is a version of the Law of Conservation of Energy, and the Law of Conservation of Energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed.
In other words, the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.
The same applies to matter.
Thus, science proves that all merely cycles, so science thereby proves that
there is no "creation." Nothing has ever been created. Nothing is being created now. Nothing is being created either here or anywhere else.
Therefore,
there is no Creator.
A negative has thereby been proved.
The leaders of the ancient pagan religions who dreamed up the concepts of "Creator gods, Sustainer gods, and Destroyer gods" passed their concepts down to modern day religions.
When Abraham came up with his "one god theory," he rolled all of those three earlier types of gods into one and came up with a schizophrenic god with the Multiple Personality Disorder who supposedly "creates" and might or might not sustain but is believed to be totally capable of getting angry and destroying whatever "He" supposedly created.
Furthermore, science also proves that those leaders who dreamed up such nonsense had to have been trapped in total ignorance, and the same applies to those who believe the nonsense that those leaders dreamed up thousands of years ago.
To be continued.
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