God: Mystery Solved!

By Jean Paul Corriveau

Drawing on fundamental notions from quantum physics, this book uses logic and careful reasoning to prove that God exists—but not in the way most think.

Jean Paul Corriveau, who earned degrees in mathematics and computer science, explains how long-held beliefs about God are all wrong. After reading, you’ll know:

• God is neither the source of intelligence nor consciousness and not the least involved in life and its evolution.
• Nature has no design—and intelligence is a product of evolution.
• God is nowhere in the universe, but He is its energy source.
• There is no heaven, hell, or afterlife.

The author argues that the evolution of nature and life, from the Big Bang onward, is from randomness and luck. There was never an intent. God is the only nonphysical entity, so prayers don’t reach Him.

The relationships between God, humans, the universe, and Earth aren’t what the Bible tells us or what people think. Join the author as he explores how we know God exists and what that really means.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jul 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665708296

Jean Paul Corriveau

Jean Paul Corriveau has been an instructor in information technology and mathematics for twenty-six years at various Canadian colleges and universities. He earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Master of Science in mathematics. He has two grown children and can be emailed at [e-mail].

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CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Critical Examination

Arguments for God

Objectivity

Atheism

Doubts about God’s Participation

Thoughts: A Nonphysical World

Prayers

The Theory of Evolution

The Scientific Knowledge

A Critical Examination

No Design

God Is Ultimate Simplicity

Complexity: A Weak Argument

An Unaware Universe

Not the Source of Consciousness

Not the Source of Intelligence

Proofs of God’s Existence

Origin of the Big Bang

No Intrinsic Laws in Nature

Randomness

Out of the Universe

A Top-Down Proof

A Bottom-Up Proof

Connection with God: Quantum Physics

Thought Experiments

The Early Universe

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Virtual Particles

Quantum Field Theory

Wave-Particle Duality

Schrödinger Probability Wave Function

Quantum States and Entanglement

Connection with God: Space-Time

Theory of Special Relativity

The Clock of the Universe

Minkowski Four-Dimensional Space

Theory of General Relativity

Existence and Reality

What Is Reality?

Are There Absolutes?

Only God Is Eternal

God Is Energy! Proof

Quantum Consciousness

Closing Comments

About the Author

PREFACE

Humanity has a wrong understanding of God for two reasons. People view nature from their perspective, thereby giving nature properties and qualities it doesn’t have. People, until a few hundred years ago, had no scientific knowledge of how nature works.

We tend to associate a purpose with everything and to believe that everything happens for a reason. No. It’s the other way around. We imagine a reason for everything that happens. This view comes from the fact that every decision we make is for a reason. This book demonstrates that nature doesn’t work that way.

We don’t know what reality is. Our understanding of it is based mainly on our intuitions and feelings. Those can easily be misleading, especially in fundamental domains such as quantum physics—the smallest scale in nature—where intuition and feelings are useless. For instance, people believed that massive objects fall to the ground faster to the ground than light objects. Galileo and Newton showed that they all fall at the same rate. That humanity got this most intuitive force wrong shows that none of nature is intuitive.

Observe this drawing:

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You can only see the duck or the rabbit but never the two at the same time. Your brain performs an interpretation of the image. The light from the image enters your eyes in the form of waves. Your mind doesn’t see this reality behind the picture, which shows that your brain always interprets our five senses. I learned English in my adulthood. Before that, when someone spoke English, I only heard gibberish. Once I learned the language, what I heard was no longer random. It made sense. Yet my ears still detected the same sounds. Consciousness allowed me to ignore the sounds and capture the meaning of those sounds. These two examples show that consciousness isn’t aware of reality!

In the first two months of life, a baby is not yet conscious of his existence! He feels hunger, cold temperature, or needing to have his diaper changed. However, his brain has not yet deduced that these feelings imply that he exists. Existence is an abstract concept! Nothing is evident, not even God!

When religions first appeared, the thinkers of the time had no knowledge of (1) how life worked on a microbiological level, (2) how the brain worked, (3) how the laws of nature worked. So, they attributed dreams, angels, heaven, and the natural world to God. While members of religions may be knowledgeable, have good values, and are respectful, the institution of religion has its origins in fundamentally erroneous assumptions. Nowadays, religions know about microbiology, the forces of nature, and the brain’s functions. Recognizing that these are incredibly complex, they argue that God must be behind them. This book will demonstrate that complexity is an invalid argument.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, intuition is the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intuition). Without recourse to reasoning! Intuition can easily lead us in the wrong direction, yet this is what people have been doing for thousands of years, which shaped their view of God. Many people believe that God, the Creator, is a spirit. But our definition of spirit is vague. It’s not reasonable to claim that some entity, for which we have no evidence for its existence, created the universe. It’s pointless to use a mystery, spirits, to explain another mystery—God.

Added to our lack of awareness of reality are pitfalls in reasoning. It reminds me of a book, titled The God Theory, written by theoretical physicist Bernard Haisch, who used his quantum physics expertise to argue for God’s existence. He knows the Bible well. Those who wrote the Bible didn’t know that quantum physics exists! This author had done pirouettes to discover associations between physics and verses from the Bible. We can imagine associations with almost anything. For instance, I observe my automobile’s characteristics: four wheels, two forward lights, the roof, etc. I look at a dog’s painting and notice four legs, two eyes, the back, etc. That’s an association! Then, I might come to believe that this painting is the creator of my automobile, and my car is in the image of the dog. Religions reason that way with God. Any reasoning of association is fallacious unless it’s proven to be a causal relationship. In this example, the painting isn’t the cause of the existence of my automobile!

Stephen Meyer, the author of the book Darwin’s Doubt, argues that Charles Darwin had unanswered questions. How could evolution have led to very complex species without intelligent intervention? Professor Meyer puts forward reasonings of associations, for example, an association between DNA sequences and the letters of a sentence. The DNA didn’t cause human language or vice versa! DNA and our language are in contexts that have nothing to do with each other. A sentence has only one meaning so that permutations of its letters render it meaningless. On the contrary, the DNA sequence may be subjected to many meaningful mutations and the altered sequence may still lead to viable new features in the species. Darwin had established the foundation for evolution. In his day, microbiology didn’t exist yet, and DNA was unknown. In the terms theory of evolution, some people interpret the word theory as a hypothesis or, worse, an opinion. It’s not. Microbiology is exceptionally complex. Evolutionists don’t have all the answers.

Some will argue that this complexity can’t have evolved on its own. But this complexity doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s the result of countless events without intention, therefore, from chance. However, chemical bonds follow strict rules, so never coincidental. If God is responsible for the complexity, then he must be heavily involved in microbiology. He must possess a volume of knowledge more massive than the entire universe! How can God either have access to this knowledge located in the universe or inject his knowledge into microbiology molecules? Where does God keep his knowledge? Keeping God in evolution is equivalent to admitting to having no idea how life came into being and evolved.

Assigning human qualities and experiences to God is at the core of our confusion about God’s involvement with our universe, humans, life, evolution, physics, and religion. This error is subtle. For instance, we enjoy flowers with vivid colors. We have a feeling of connection with them, perhaps because it is life too. But flowers are not meant for us. Bees benefit from them too.

After reading this book, you will know that the above are assumptions. This conclusion doesn’t feel right to many people, so they reject it. But feelings may be triggered by an incorrect belief. Many people believe in God for emotional reasons. They want: (1) a father figure to protect them from this frightening world, (2) someone who gives their lives meaning and purpose, and (3) something that stops death from being the end.

To understand nature’s workings, scientists drill down to ever-smaller structures of life and atoms to reach a point that there’s no more structure to break down. No explanation is possible. Nature is irreducible at that point, and a designer must be the explanation. Also, the atom’s complexity, let alone microbiological structures, calls many to suggest that a designer must exist. This book will show that these arguments are flawed! Here’s a hint.

According to CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), our universe originated from a big bang followed by the simplest types of atoms, hydrogen, and helium 380,000 years later. Quantum mechanics—a subject belonging to quantum physics—had plenty of time to come up with these simple atoms without introducing a designer, as the following calculations show. Quantum physics studies the smallest scale in nature. Earlier this year, a team of physicists at Pennsylvania State University discovered that the fundamental unit of quantum time can be no larger than 10-33 seconds (Journal Physical Review Letters). Three hundred eighty thousand years amounts to 1.2×10¹³ seconds. That’s 1.2×10⁴⁶ units of quantum time. That many aluminum foil papers stacked up would reach the height of 7.7×10³⁸ kilometers, over 10¹⁹ times farther away than the Andromeda galaxy is from us!

The helium atom contains two electrons, two protons, and two neutrons composed of three quarks each. Indeed, quantum mechanics had plenty of time to come up, without intention, with such a simple atom in over 10⁴⁶ units of time! The mathematics used to describe the atoms’ behavior are very complex. Physicists used their intelligence to derive those equations, but atoms are not intelligent. This book will show that complexity isn’t a valid argument toward proof of a designer.

Among the cases made for God’s existence, the two most often used arguments are scientific knowledge and biblical knowledge. Scientific knowledge, such as the conditions necessary for life or that the planet must be orbiting the sun in the correct region, doesn’t provide a convincing argument. Many suppose inconsistencies present in the theory of evolution suggest that it must involve God, but this doesn’t lead toward proof. The Bible doesn’t help prove that God exists since it’s believed to be the Word of God.

Nevertheless, we have two realities to suggest that God may exist: (1) the universe can’t have come from nothingness, and (2) the intelligence of the brain must have come from something intelligent. The first point is appealing because it seems so obvious. It resembles the cosmological argument proposed by philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. However, that argument fails to address the first cause. If the universe has a creator, what created that creator? As for the second point, it’s believed that intelligence is nonphysical, suggesting that it existed before the creation of the universe, hinting at God as the source. This reasoning is flawed because I could conclude that other nonphysical things, such as my thoughts, come from God. So, this approach is a dead-end for my quest.

It’s known that our universe had a beginning. There’s observable evidence and a philosophical argument as follows. Suppose there’s no God and that our universe has always existed. If so, then an infinite number of seconds have gone by before today, implying that today can’t come to be. Today is here. The universe did have a beginning. The question of when the universe created itself is meaningless. Timelessness is a concept that humanity has never experienced. Thus, we have no feeling about this, and so it’s beyond our understanding. Since we suppose in the present argument that there’s no God, then the universe created itself.

Religions believe that God created the universe and that he created only this one. So, for eternity, he made only one. Why did he bother? It must have been unintentional, a freak accident, so improbable that it was a random event (just like if you win the lottery). There must have been universes before ours and at the same time as ours. There’s no limit: there’s an infinite number of universes. To reach God, you must get out of the universe.

Religious people have the right to believe whatever they wish. However, without any attempt to prove that their beliefs reflect facts, they remain questionable. I can feel that Beethoven’s music is more enjoyable than Mozart’s music. It would be pointless for me to prove this. The case of God is different. God is absolute, independent of anyone’s point of view. Some religions believe in many gods. There can be only one God. My preference for Beethoven’s music is my reality, not everyone else’s. God, being the absolute, signals that proof for his existence is required.

A universe that appeared out of nowhere and nonliving matter that suddenly became life must be the work of God. Now that we know how nature works, it is not reasonable to just believe in God. Proof is required. Some would reply that God is beyond us, and explanations are futile. There’s no point to believe, then. People have pondered life on Mars for hundreds of years. NASA sent many probes to search. They are confident that a proof or refutation is possible. Without that confidence, believing in life on Mars would be pointless. Giving God attributes of all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present while having no evidence for his existence is equally futile.

This book explains, as well as constructing rigorous proofs for God’s existence! It also shows that God is not involved in the universe! The relationships between God, humans, the universe, and the earth are not what the Bible tells us or what people think. My findings invalidate deep-rooted religious beliefs and shatter our deepest intuitions. Finally, it will be proven that God is Energy.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My ex-girlfriend, very religious, sometimes read scripture verses to me. She believed that God is involved in everything; for instance, that God knows what we are up to. The wind is a form of God’s communication with, that God knows exactly how many hair strands we have on our heads, that our first encounter was predestined. I didn’t believe any of that, but I had no arguments to go on. Her religious fervor triggered in me the motivation to seek a rigorous approach to understanding God. But I had no clue how to go about it.

A couple of weeks later, one evening, my brother Gilles, a retired meteorologist, phoned me to discuss various topics. He said, I believe that the mathematical equations that physicists have discovered as laws of nature come from God. I immediately replied that this is undoubtedly not the case. After the phone call, I started typing ideas on my laptop computer to prove my claim. Less than an hour later, I had deduced that nature possesses no laws for its forces. I was stunned! I didn’t know how to interpret that result.

I reasoned that if my lifelong assumption of the existence of laws was wrong, then what else was I wrong about? Consequently, my mind shifted 180 degrees, and I gradually let go of my assumptions. I became objective. So, while my deduction seemed unbelievable, it was logically flawless and not based on assumptions. So, I accepted it and continued to deduce more stunning results.

That was in the middle of August 2019. In the span of only six weeks, my deductions led to the conviction to have successfully constructed proof for God’s existence. Four months went by before I realized that it was not rigorous proof. Determined, by the end of July 2020, I had constructed two rigorous proofs!

As I studied, I am grateful for the internet. My primary source was YouTube videos about God, life evolution, atheism, microbiology, relativity theory, and quantum physics, having viewed scores of them. I also studied other sources.

I created most of the images in this book using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and the free Blender 3D image creation suite. I used the Phyton programming language to create the fractal images and the wave fringe interferences.

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A CRITICAL EXAMINATION

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Let’s examine three