@brianjakub,
brianjakub wrote:
Words store information for communications. Physical things store information in their atoms and molecules. So things are Words whether there is anybody there to agree on the meaning of the words or not.
Fortunately there are three people that claimed to have made all the atoms and they agreed on their meaning (stored as information in them) when they spoke them into existence at the beginning of our observable universe.
Atoms and molecules aren't 'made' so much as they are formed from earlier configurations. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just keeps changing form. Form changes are caused and they are causal, i.e. they cause further occurrences beyond their present existence.
Now the question is whether the mechanistic/causal nature of the universe should be interpreted in terms of divine authority or not. If we reject divine authority, we assume that all the spiritual things we experience, such as conscious awareness/perception, intelligence, wisdom, etc. are random phenomena that have nothing to do with the inherent nature of the universe.
If, on the other hand, we acknowledge that the only reason we can experience an observation or analytical conclusion as being true is because there is an inherent capacity built into the universe to be(come) aware of things and know them (and/or know that they are falsely represented), then what else could you attribute this innate capacity for true vs. false representations to except divine authority?
In short, if 2+2=4 and never 5, how can this be true except by some transcendent nature of the universe to be what it is and not what it's not, and for it to know the difference?
