Finding God In The Waves

This is actually a really good book. It is by Mike McHargue, better known as Science Mike.As I read it (on Kindle) I will share a few excerpts, though due to copyright software, Kindle never lets me cut and paste, even after I purchased the darn book! So I will retype the relevant quotes and share this gem with my loveable skeptics here at EvC. Stay tuned.

I have been doing cut and paste with kindle.I use the kindle software for Windows 7 (probably also works on Windows 10).I don't know how to cut/paste of a physical kindle -- it might not be possible. But it can be done on the Windows software version.

Oh, nwr, you didn't have to encourage him. We're trying to cure him of this bad case of religion.

I am reading the book and likely will have little need to cut * paste apart from a brief quote here and there. And if need be, I will simply retype the paragraph.Edited by Phat, : No reason given.

Ironically, Mike McHargue thinks a lot like many of you.

Unless your first quote from him is, "There is no god. The supernatural isn't. Physics rules the universe," then there really is nothing he can teach me.If you do find such a quote then by all means bring it on and we can all sit around the campfire, hold hands and sing kumbaya over his self-improvement book.

What if I told you that he once was a believer in the traditional apologetic sense that our jar from Texas hates so much, became an atheist,(thinking very similar to you and Tangle, and ringo...with some similarities to jar and stile, though absolutely NO similarity to myself(obviously), then he became a Mystic and "found God in the Waves(An epiphany of feelings while on the beach one day(this from a science mind) and the journey in this book anyway ends by him becoming who he is now. He still thinks scientificallyu. He does not push beliefs, though he does not fight them as you seem to do.So, Mr. "YouCantTeachMeAnything", you seem as stubborn and entrenched as I am. But let me read the book before hitting you up with any quotes for comment.

Oh great, a mystic. People will believe anything

I read the theism --> atheism -- > theism angle in the blurb on Amazon. No surprises there. Every fundy claims to have been an atheist once. Maybe they just don't understand what it means.

I suppose, since I can't stop you and you're going to do it anyways, I should be patient and see what you produce.But, I gotta tell ya, Phat, this "mystic" stuff is already 10 strikes against him.I wouldn't expect much in the way of intellectual enlightenment from him no matter how he misuses and abuses the "science" he claims guides him.

He is incurable.

That may be so but as Acolytes Of Reality it is our mission to spread the Good Word to all nations and peoples lest they miss the joys and wonders of the One True Reality of the universe.

We don't have to do anything for them to enjoy reality. They just have to get their heads out of their holy books every once in a while.

How do you do that? How do you get a religionist to understand enough reality for them to realize the futility of religious thought? How do you get them interested enough to pull their heads out it? The books, I mean.

First of all you have to stop hinting that you are smarter than they are. You likely aren't. I would go head to head in a general IQ test with most people on this Forum. Perhaps not Son Goku or a few of you, but by and large I have confidence that I could equal or best your scores yet simply because I choose to be a believer I am an outcast . I knew a lot of guys who completed college...something I never did. They had a lot of twenty dollar words and were intelligent in their chosen Majors and professions, but overall they had nothing on me. Just because I choose to believe in the supernatural (largely for my own reasons) is no reason to doubt my intelligence. The Gospel According To Stan Lee. Edited by Phat, : No reason given.