September 16, 2001
Dan Eumurian wrote:
>
> Mr. Hammond:
>
> I welcome you. It takes courage to humble oneself even when others seem
> not to be understanding or appreciative. Sometimes a disastrous event
> can be the catalyst for mutual humbling.
[Hammond]
Thank God you have been able to meet me halfway. Meetings
halfway are our only hope in the face of what appears to me to
be the "Enormity" of current events. The average person is
seldom called to face Enormity, but this is indubitably one of
those times. We only have to recall where the word Vandalism comes
from, or the Crusades of the Middle Ages to appreciate the
Enormity of the situation that has been thrust upon us. This
time, peace and reconciliation and social solutions have a
far far greater urgency than they did last time.
>
> Your areas of specialty differ greatly from mine. Perhaps we can pool
> our strengths. There is one area where our thoughts may intersect. I
> quote from your post to this list on 5/20/2001 as follows:
>
> > In the case of Psychology, what is done is to take every psychology
> > test in the world, and give them to say 20,000 people. Say there are
> > 100 questions on every test. Each question is like a guy reaching into the
> > tent to try and see what's in there. OK, so they compute the
> > 100x100 correlation matrix and then extract the eigenvectors. Guess
> > what, it turns out to be a 3D time varying BOX
> > [George Hammond]
> >
>
> The late Dr. Austin Farrer of Oxford University suggested in _Faith and
> Speculation_, masterfully explained by Dr. Charles Conti, that the place
> to begin understanding oneself, God and the universe might be in the
> believer's personal experience of contingency, or dependence. I would
> for the moment apply this approach to believers in all religious faiths,
> although there are essential differences among these faiths. In this
> venture I would even extend it to serious-minded agnostics and atheists.
> The result might be something like what C.S. Lewis described in _The
> Abolition of Man_--a sort of "Tao," or [almost] universally accepted set
> of moral and ethical beliefs. The use of this term is not intended by
> Lewis to be the same as its technical sense in Taoism.
>
> Still, the resulting body of data might be somewhat like the result of
> the psychology tests used in your example. It could be distilled by your
> "Factor Analysis" or some similar process, yielding common
> understandings and attitudes. These could serve as bridges for further
> discussion and (hopefully) fruitful debate. To be sure, the process
> would also uncover some of the above-mentioned essential differences of
> which specialists in theology are keenly aware. While the final product
> might not fit into a neat scheme, it could serve as a helpful tool in
> the analogical process. A commentator on Farrer described this process
> in sailing terminology as "tacking towards the truth," or continual
> dialogue and refinement.
[Hammond]
Again, the matter of Enormity arises immediately. You have to
realize that if there is a scientific proof of God, it is an Enormous
historical event.
One such reason has just surfaced on September 11th. There is an
Enormous religious divide between Christians and Moslems. The discovery
of a scientific proof of God would immediately produce a de facto
ecumenical unification of Islam and Christianity.. in fact all the major
Religions of the world. Therefore, there would no longer be a fundamental
"strangeness" between Moslem and Christian, with the scientific proof
of God, we would be merely "denominations" of one global religion.
Thus we see, that a scientific proof of God (SPOG) clearly falls in
the Enormous category, it is by no means a routine academic production.
It can hardly be discussed sensibly by people who think that it is.
>
> Jesus may have had this sort of approach in mind when he told his
> disciples, "He who is not against us is for us" (Mark 9:40). The
> application to this past week's tragic events could be what I have
> termed an "Abraham Alliance," referring to the common ancestor of
> Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It has been pointed out that Isaac and
> Ishmael, whose respective descendants clash to this day in the Middle
> East, joined together to bury their father Abraham (Genesis 25:9).
> _Eternity in Their Hearts_, by Don Richardson; _Understanding the Arab
> World_, by Dr. Louis Hamada; the Institute for Muslim Studies at the
> U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, CA, and Dr. Ed Jaeger at
> Prairie Bible Institute in Saskatchewan all have valuable insights on
> this issue.
[Hammond]
Yes, your instincts exactly match mine. We must emphasize the common
heritage of Christianity, Judaism and Islam through Abraham. This is a
step in the right direction.
But I am talking about yet another miracle. A scientific proof that
the Christian God, the Mosaic Jehovah, and the Moslem Allah are one in
the same person. A miraculous scientific discovery that proves this...
that not only finally proves there IS a God, but identifies who he is.
That identifies God, Jehovah and Allah as the one and only true Surname
of Man, but written in three languages.
Such a discovery, if confirmed, would have a far greater impact on the
world than $40-Billion dollars, in fact $40-Trillion is more like it. We
are talking Global instability here, and what kind of a stabilizing and
unifying and pacifying effect a discovery of God would produce. Again,
it is Enormity that we are dealing with.
There are unsuspecting people killed daily by landslides, vocanoes,
hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, heights, vast expanses of ocean... simply
because they were not experienced enough to know the power and size of
Enormity and ventured too close. So it is with a discovery of God.. it
is Enormous, perhaps the most Enormous thing the world will ever see.
>
> The time will eventually come when Jesus' contrasting statement will
> apply: "He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather
> with me scatters" (Matthew 12:30). Until that time comes in earthly
> dialogue and ultimately in the final judgment, I believe we should heed
> his pronouncement in Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers…." In the
> words of Edwin Markham in his poem "Outwitted,"
>
> "He drew a circle that shut me out--
> Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
> But Love and I had the wit to win:
> We drew a circle that took him in!"
>
> (From _The Best Loved Poems of the American People_,
> selected by Hazel Felleman. Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1936.)
>
> Dan Eumurian
> La Crosse, WI
[Hammond]
As a closing statement, let me append a copy of he Title and
Abstract that I sent to ZYGON last week, only a day before the
attack on the WTC.
As you can see from the Title alone, anyone who is not familiar
with Relativity would have no idea what a "curvature of space" is,
or what it means. This is why it is essential to get this
discovery into a peer reviewed journal where someone like John
Polkinghorne is a regular contributor. It is only scientists of
his caliber who can even understand it.. and only Theologians of
his caliber who can assess the Enormity of it and it's importance
to the contemporary world.
Clearly I am nothing but a voice crying in the wilderness.. but
I have come in from the cold. There are several people on this
list who are contributors or even reviewers for ZYGON, who know the
editor, and probably have even rubbed shoulders with John
Polkinghorne who has published at least half a dozen papers in the
journal in the past few years. So, this conversation IS being
overheard by people very near the epicenter of Religious - Scientific
intelligence in the Western World. This is far from a conversation
on the outskirts of civilization. And we are far from wasting our
breath talking about it here.
I certainly hope that some people will begin to see a
connection between these crys from a scientific John the Baptist,
a voice crying in the wilderness, and begin to see the connection
between the blurring speed of Enormous events which we see unfolding
and the sudden peculiar reports of the discovery of a scientific
proof of God. Someone, somehwere will put 2 and 2 together.
Title and abstract of new paper for ZYGON attached below:
Copyright 2001, George Hammond
Title:
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT GOD IS A
CURVATURE IN PSYCHOMETRY SPACE
GEORGE E. HAMMOND
Hyannis MA 02601 U.S.A.
Abstract:--- This paper follows The Cartesian Theory
(Hammond, NIP Vol. 12(2), 1994). There the author
advanced Cartesian Brain Geometry as the cause of the
Structural Model of Personality. This paper goes one
step further by unifying Intelligence and Personality
in a 4D space consisting of Eysenck's E,N,P plus
psychometric g. The higher order Factor of [E,N,P,g]
is identified as the Secular Trend and is shown to be
Factor Analytically caused by Einstein's Curvature of
real space, via Cartesian Brain Geometry. Elementary
science then suffices to identify and confirm that the
Factor is "God". Thus it is axiomatically proven and
experimentally confirmed that God exists, and is caused
by Gravity.
I. Introduction
II. Discovery of the Structural Model of
Personality (Hammond, 1994).
III. Why the unification of Intelligence and
Personality follows causally from Einstein's
unification of Space and Time.
IV. Identification of the Secular Trend as the
Biological cause of the higher order Factor
of [E,N,P,g] space.
V. Mathematical demonstration that Einsteinian
gravity is the physical cause of the higher
order Factor (Nota bene, a confirmation of
Sir R. Penrose's 1994 'brain gravity thesis').
VI. Elementary science proof that the identity
of the higher order Factor is "God".
VII. Conclusion: The scientific proof of God
has been discovered
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