​There is a natural yearning to know our Source. We'd like to understand why we were created, of course, but there is also awe and thankfulness. After all, we did not make ourselves or all the wonders and pleasures we enjoy.
 
We might think a sit-down conversation with the Creator would be great. But that's naïve and pretentious. An infinite Creator responsible for the incomprehensible physical and nonphysical reality, surely can't be humanized. Attempts to do so are what created thousands of conflicting religions plaguing humans from our beginnings.
 
Besides, if we could do it, and the Creator multiplied itself so each of us could have a duplicate as a pal, we would be irrevocably distracted from Earth life and its purpose. Curiosity, challenges, learning, conscience, career, and personal relationships would all be sated by simply talking to the ultimate guru who knows all, including the future. With such access, we would likely retire into a monastic life perfectly content with the ultimate friend and mentor.
 
Tao Te Ching tried to capture the conundrum of trying to know our indefinable source: "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

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​In an attempt to know the Creator people turn to religions. Then knowing becomes synonymous with duty, fear, holy book study, prayer, and obedience to religious dos and don'ts with hell and heaven consequences.

Religions conjure names for the Creator, like Elohim, Allah, Atman, Brahma, Buddha, Christ, Yahweh, Jehovah, Jesus, Ein Sof, Eshwara, God, Krishna, OM, Shakti, Shiva, Tao, Vishu, Raan . . . and hundreds of others. A name has the effect of reducing the Creator to something we can be familiar with, like a buddy or Dad. Holy books are then created with recordings of conversations with the named anthropomorphized Creator telling us what it thinks, how it feels, and rules it demands be followed.
 
Such attempts at the impossible, for so many good-hearted seekers, consume them with worship rituals, institutions, exegesis, hermeneutics, rules, clergy, proselytizing, and all the associated religious rigmarole rather than the personal responsibility of pursuing truth and reaching within to conscience.
 
What can be surmised about the Creator is deduced from the creation itself and its laws. Reality is the reflection of the Creator. Unlike religions pretending to be that reflection, the Creator (reality) is intelligent, true, reliable, and just. Moreover, since everything is one, we are connected to and part of the source, and more so to the extent we merge with the truth and justice of reality.
 
Agnosticism and atheism take root due to materialistic and evolutionary indoctrination. The inability to materialistically perceive or analyze the Creator is taken as proof of its nonexistence. It also follows that if matter explains our origin, we are nothing more than biological robots in a meaningless universe.

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​Atheists and agnostics think they have put the final nail in the Creator's coffin by seeing through religious nonsense. They, rightly so, cannot swallow the idea of a personage who writes books copying pagan mythologies, demands belief in irrationality, and justifies horrific acts that should shock the conscience of any reflective person.
 
Then, wedded to materialism and evolution and thinking religion is the only way to think about the Creator, agnostics and atheists declare that the Creator does not exist, or "I don't Know."
 
This forces them into untenable positions. The atheistic claim that they know the Creator does not exist is logically false. To know such a thing would require looking in every nook and cranny in the universe from the beginning of time up to now. Until that has been done, no declaration of nonexistence is valid. A belief and faith in atheism can be claimed, but that's it.
 
For agnostics, "I don't know" is their first cause. We must agree that "I don't know" is the correct position to take for the Creator's essence, motives, power, and eternal nature. But "I don't know" is an intellectually dishonest position concerning the existence of a Creator. It denies the staggering functional complexity and roiling mystery of our world which is totally inexplicable other than by invoking intelligence. That, they can clearly know.
 
If we found a shoe on Mars but no obvious source, we would still conclude it was made by intelligence even if we didn't know the nature of that intelligence or its origin. Every star in the universe, atom on Earth, and every creature is a shoe that demands intelligent causation, even if we can't know the nature of that intelligence or its origin.

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​Once freed from religious dominion over knowledge, the heady progress in material sciences and industries has led to the conclusion that all answers to all questions are just around the corner. Materialism, evolutionism, scientism, and technology became the new multiheaded god of a new religion. But it is a false god. Just like the gods of old, it is human-fabricated.
 
No biological life can arise from lifeless matter. No cell can transform over time into the panoply of life forms on Earth. Such things are completely contrary to natural law, experience, and logic. Yet abiogenesis and evolution are believed and promoted as fact, in spite of the thorny problem of lack of proof.
 
Matter at its smallest, as quantum physics proves, disappears into a nothingness best characterized as mind. Hundreds of studies prove life does not end at death. Yet the prevailing sciences ignore these facts in favor of faith that matter and an evolutionary dogma will yield all answers.
 
When the materialistic and evolutionary legs are cut out from under agnostics and atheists, and human-made religions are not pushed in their face as the only option, the illusion is punctured and new horizons can open for them.
 
A more true view begins with understanding where we stand in the overall scheme of things. Notice in the following how puny we are and how outrageous is the hubris that our materialistic sciences can yield all the answers.

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Finite beings constricted by physical dimensions and brains cannot know the infinite. Our physical reality is like an island in an endless inconceivable sea. We must be content in knowing the existence of things we cannot fathom, such as infinity, oneness, timelessness, spiritual existence, immortality, and a Creator without beginning or end and limitless capabilities.
 
Trying to understand the first cause without a beginning is frustrating because of an endless regression of the first cause needing a cause which needs a cause, which needs a cause . . . Such cause-effect reasoning that this physical reality demands, prevents the comprehension of the infinite.
 
Infinity is a perfect way to understand our limitations. We can't comprehend it, yet we know it exists. Neither can we really know gravity, atoms, space, or anything else at its fundamental level or how it came into existence. Knowing they exist or using them to make trinkets is not true knowing.
 
The point being, everyone knows things that they can't fully comprehend. So too we can know that there is a Source responsible for creating natural laws, the Universe, infinity, and us. That does not close our minds with a belief, it opens them to exploring true unlimited reality and discovering our purpose on Earth.

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