Avalerion

I was born on October 25, 1988 in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] and raised there until we moved to [[Middleburg, Florida]] while I was still in elementary.  The Lord blesses me with a Christian father, an own-way mother--meaning that she thinks someone can find their own way to heaven--and three younger brothers, one of which suffers from [[autism]].

I was born on October 25, 1988 in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] and raised there until we moved to [[Middleburg, Florida]] while I was still in elementary.  The Lord blesses me with a Christian father, an own-way mother--meaning that she thinks someone can find their own way to heaven--and three younger brothers, one of which suffers from [[autism]].

From an Abductive-Reasoning Scientific Realist, after reading [[Darwinism Under the Microscope]] at seventeen, I became a Scientific Materialist/Methodological Naturalist.  An Empirical Agnostic Evolutionst since twelve, I searched through various religions after my scientific outlook was corrected, until studying the Faith two years later and then becoming a God-Sovereigntist Christian [[Creationist]]. After the primaries for the [[2008 Presidential Elections]], my political standing changed from [[neoconservative]] [[Republican]] (now only little 'r') to a [[paleoconservative]] [[Constitutionalist]].

From an Abductive-Reasoning Scientific Realist, after reading [[Darwinism Under the Microscope]] at seventeen, I became a Scientific Naturalist/Methodological Naturalist.  An Empirical Agnostic Evolutionst since twelve, I searched through various religions after my scientific outlook was corrected, until studying the Faith two years later and then becoming a God-Sovereigntist Christian [[Creationist]]. After the primaries for the [[2008 Presidential Elections]], my political standing changed from [[neoconservative]] [[Republican]] (now only little 'r') to a [[paleoconservative]] [[Constitutionalist]].

I'm also a light-green, free-market [[environmentalist]], an artist, a writer and adopting a [[vegan]] diet.  While [[bisexual]], having quit such activities but still having an attraction for both genders, I am currently going through therapy to resolve the latter.

I'm also a light-green, free-market [[environmentalist]], an artist, a writer and adopting a [[vegan]] diet.  While [[bisexual]], having quit such activities but still having an attraction for both genders, I am currently going through therapy to resolve the latter.

== Sequence of Thought ==

== Sequence of Thought ==

An unshakeable foundation is the only place to start building your beliefs.  After seventeen years of setting bricks upon quicksand, you can probably understand the devastation and anger of it finally sinking on me.  In any case, I’ve learned that fundamentals play a large part on most of the points of our lives.  For instance, being an agnostic, it opened up a path of morality and falsehood, including the act of accepting bisexuality as ethically correct.

An unshakeable foundation is the only place to start building your beliefs.  After seventeen years of setting bricks upon quicksand, you can probably understand the devastation and anger of it finally sinking on me.  In any case, I’ve learned that fundamentals play a large part on most of the points of our lives.  For instance, being an Agnostic, it opened up a path of morality and falsehood, including the act of accepting bisexuality as ethically correct.

The only way I understand how to come to this conclusion is to resort to things I know are unquestionable truths.  Among those who understand the impossibility of pure objective reasoning within humans, this may sound arrogant, but please consider that this is my user page and, if I truly believe something, I will write it as a fact.  However, I’m always up for listening to different points of view and will attempt to have an unbiased opinion on actual articles.

The only way I understand how to come to this conclusion is to resort to things I know are unquestionable truths.  Among those who understand the impossibility of pure objective reasoning within humans, this may sound arrogant, but please consider that this is my user page and, if I truly believe something, I will write it as a fact.  However, I’m always up for listening to different points of view and will attempt to have an unbiased opinion on actual articles.

=== Ground: Book of Nature ===

=== Ground: Book of Nature ===

Based on laws of science, including the [[Law of Conservation of Mass]], the [[Law of Conservation of Energy]], the [[Law of Entropy]] and the [[Law of Biogenesis]], the conclusion I came to was that there is a deity.

Based on probability and laws of science, including the [[Law of Conservation of Mass]], the [[Law of Conservation of Energy]], the [[Law of Entropy]] and the [[Law of Biogenesis]], the conclusion I came to was that there is a deity and that trans-species evolution is a fairytale.

 

*Note that we have matter and energy.

*Note that we have matter and energy.

*Note that those two cannot, by the scientific laws of conservation, appear or disappear from reality.

*Those two cannot, by the scientific laws of conservation, appear or disappear from reality.

*By those two things, we have many systems.

*By those two things, we have many systems.

*The same can be said for the Law of Biogenesis which, while already stating that life cannot come from inanimate objects, the Law of Entropy supports that life cannot evolve.  The probability of such happening is '''beyond''' the accepted statistic in mathematics for impossibility.

*The same can be said for the Law of Biogenesis which, while already stating that life cannot come from inanimate objects, the Law of Entropy supports that life cannot evolve.  The probability of such happening is '''beyond''' the accepted statistic in mathematics for impossibility.

A deity created everything.  Having made everything, it must be [[omniscient]], since it knows the ins and outs of everything by the rules it placed upon everything.

*Mathematical reasonsing, astronomy and the Law of Entropy disprove evolution both by means of time, current state and, of course, the inability to gain the new data needed for trans-species evolution.

Here’s where it becomes harder to follow.  Regarding time, such a deity must be [[omnipotent]], above the laws of nature, or else it would have decayed to nothing already.  It also would not have evolved; it had to be self-sufficient always.  Being omnipotent, one could say the deity transcends the three dimensions and therefore is also [[omnipresent]].

Now using all that above, a deity created everything.  Having made everything, it must be [[omniscient]], since it knows the ins and outs of everything by the rules it placed upon everything.  Regarding time, such a deity must be [[omnipotent]], above the laws of nature, or else it would have decayed to nothing already.  It also would not have evolved; it had to be self-sufficient always.  Being omnipotent, one could say the deity transcends the three dimensions and therefore is also [[omnipresent]].

<big>'''Meaning of Life'''</big>

==== Meaning of Life ====

(Keep in mind that this is my thought pattern.  While I don’t mind questions to help my own outlook, this is not to say that there is no other line of thought, just none that I have yet to perceive.)

(Keep in mind that this is my thought pattern.  While I don’t mind questions to help my own outlook, this is not to say that there is no other line of thought, just none that I have yet to perceive.)

The question has been asked over and over and over.  The only way to solve this is to look at the deity.  I’ve already covered that the deity is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.  What does it have to gain by making us?  If it is omniscient, it already knows everything, so it’s not to learn something new--as there is nothing new to it.  If it is omnipotent, we have no power to give to it that it doesn’t have.  If it is omnipresent, our presence is not required.

The question has been asked repetatively.  The only way to solve this is to look at the deity.  Since the deity is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, what does it have to gain by making us?  If it is omniscient, it already knows everything, so it’s not to learn something new--as there is nothing new to it.  If it is omnipotent, we have no power to give to it that it doesn’t have.  If it is omnipresent, our presence is not required.

What else is it?  It is the original, the standard, and the only source of right and wrong.  Like truth cannot contain even a small lie or, by essence, it is no longer truth, its goodness cannot also be evil.  Simply the idea that there is good and evil proves that these rules exist in some fashion.  The only thing I can think of is a philosophical argument: We should exalt what is good, including the origin of goodness.

What else is it?  It is the original, the standard, and the only source of right and wrong.  Like truth cannot contain even a small lie or, by essence, it is no longer truth, its goodness cannot also be evil.  Simply the idea that there is good and evil proves that these rules exist in some fashion.  The only thing I can think of is a philosophical argument: We should exalt what is good, including the origin of goodness.

It took two years, going through several religions that first qualified by having a “holy book” and not contradicting it or the qualifications for the deity stated above, until finally reading Christianity.  I had held off from it because I was afraid that, because it was popular, especially in the United States, that it would be assumed that I took to it because everyone else around me was Christian.  That’s far from the truth.  With nineteen years of an unbelieving lifestyle, you can bet that I managed to find the few Atheists, Deists and Wiccans and so on in my area, and surround myself with them, because I had no one else to relate to.  Even now my understanding is at odds with most of my family and many other self-proclaimed Christians.

It took two years, going through several religions that first qualified by having a “holy book” and not contradicting it or the qualifications for the deity stated above, until finally reading Christianity.  I had held off from it because I was afraid that, because it was popular, especially in the United States, that it would be assumed that I took to it because everyone else around me was Christian.  That’s far from the truth.  With nineteen years of an unbelieving lifestyle, you can bet that I managed to find the few Atheists, Deists and Wiccans and so on in my area, and surround myself with them, because I had no one else to relate to.  Even now my understanding is at odds with most of my family and many other self-proclaimed Christians.

In any case, Christianity held up to all the conditions I had wanted, where the religions had failed. (I still need to return the Hindu book, but keep getting lost to that part of town.) The Bible contained further scientific evidence that I had not even heard about before, but I guess that’s understandable.  ''Darwinism Under the Microscope'' was five-years old when I first read it.

In any case, Christianity held up to all the conditions I had wanted, where the religions had failed.  The Bible contained further scientific evidence that I had not even heard about before, but I guess that’s understandable.  ''Darwinism Under the Microscope'' was five-years old when I first read it.