Table of Contents

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    • Preface: Advance Care Directives

    • Forward: Scientific Research Methodology

    • BOOK 1 – Truth Is Reality

    • SECTION I: In What Do You Trust For Your Unknown Future?

  1. Endless Or Pointless Existence?
  2. Hyperdimensional Or Material?
  3. Knowledge Or Ignorance Of Death?
  4. Rebirth Or Renaissance?
  5. Reformation Or Retrogression?
  6. Intelligence Or Intelligentsia?
  7. Freedom Or Tyranny?
  8. God’s Word Or Humans’?

    • SECTION II: The Reality Option

  9. Scientific Constants Validate Creation
  10. Quantum Physics Validates A Creator-Sustainer
  11. Statistics Validate Belief In God
  12. Provenance Validates The Bible
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52) A Spheroid Can Be A Torus

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A torus is a type of oblate spheroid, informally called a donut because it has a hole in the middle.

Toroidal or donut shaped Earth. Credit: Love Employee / Getty Images

Various astronomers both amateur and professional have, in fact, spent a great deal of time and mental energy proving that such a planet is feasible, though it would need to be somewhat larger than Earth.

It wouldn’t be a perfect ring with a perfectly circular cross-section, either.

Instead, it would need to be slightly egg-shaped in cross-section, thicker at the outer edges than it is towards the centre (the hole in the donut).

We won’t delve deep into mathematical equations here, but if you’d like to see some workings that led to these conclusions, try this article by Oxford professor and mathematical modelling expert Anders Sandberg, or this one by an anonymous blogger.

Artist’s impression of a toroidal or donut shaped Earth. Credit: Love Employee / Getty Images

Living on a donut Earth

So if a toroidal planet can exist… what might life there be like? How would conditions on a donut-shaped Earth differ from those we experience in real life?

Such a planet would still have an equator and poles.

Actually, it would have an inner and outer equator – one on the inside of the ring, one on the outside – but just as on Earth, the equator would wrap right around the donut planet’s ‘waistband’.

And the North and South Poles would still be at the top and bottom, respectively.

It’s just that each pole would be a very narrow ring on the donut’s uppermost and lowermost surfaces, as opposed to a specific point as it is on Earth.

 

September 2024: Scientists have uncovered a vast donut-shaped structure buried thousands of miles beneath our feet.

Researchers from the Australian National University tracing the paths of seismic waves generated by earthquakes found a donut-like structure which runs in a ring around the edge of the liquid outer core, and could be responsible for driving our planet’s protective magnetic field.

 

 

 

 

Preface: Advance Care Directives

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On January 2021 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported “It is 100 seconds to midnight.”

This was due to the world-wide COVID pandemic which was life-threatening itself, but what was worse was that “In 2020, online lying literally killed…deliberate attempts (sometimes by national leaders) to disseminate misinformation and disinformation…a “massive ‘infodemic’—an over-abundance of information …makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it…” 

Four years later, with Donald Trump serving his second term as President of the United States under worsening conditions of disseminated misinformation and disinformation, we’ve jumped ahead.

Fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first presidential term, an average of 21 per day. Commentators and fact-checkers have described Trump’s lying as unprecedented in American politics. Scholarly analysis of Trump’s X posts found significant evidence of an intent to deceive.

The Washington Post said his frequent repetition of claims he knew to be false amounted to a campaign based on disinformation. In February 2025, a public relations CEO stated that the “flood the zone” tactic (also known as the firehose of falsehood) was designed to make sure no single action or event stands out above the rest by having them occur at a rapid pace, thus preventing the public from keeping up and preventing controversy or outrage over a specific action or event.

Is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy your response to this very near and present existential threat?

“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.”

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Foreword: Scientific Research Methodology

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Let me begin with a disclaimer.

I do not claim to have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I do claim to want to know the truth, and therefore rejecting the religious and social dogma dished out in my upbringing I investigated other options, and have changed many beliefs as additional or contradictory facts forced me to revise, not only my old beliefs, but even my revised beliefs, over the course of my study.

Don’t panic. This blog book is not an evangelical attempt to convert you to Christianity.

Absolutely not.

I grew up attending a Baptist church every Sunday for Sunday School where I memorized the books of the Bible and all the key verses, morning and evening church services where I was indoctrinated into the key beliefs, every Wednesday night for prayer meeting where I took part in the key practice of begging God for what we wanted. The longer I was in church the more I experienced the hypocrisy, outright lies and gross exploitation by narcissistic antisocial leaders of gullible believers.

After tossing out the whole package then realizing I really needed a higher power beyond my limitations in my life, I started to study just what God said. Not the religious leaders. Just God.

And I learned that the Bible conveys the most fascinating account of human history, full of the drama of the human condition – war and peace, despair and hope, agony and ecstasy, love and hate, life and death.

This blog investigates, by comparing and contrasting with other religious, scientific and philosophical sources, the revelation of a Creator-Sustainer God as given from the beginning of time “to infinity and beyond!”

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SECTION I: In What Do You Trust For Your Unknown Future?

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Every human is forced to trust that persons, places and things will perform as expected. At a minimum, we go through the activities of our daily life trusting that our past experiences will be replicated as our present condition merges into the unknown future minute by minute.

“In God We Trust” became the official motto of the United States when, as the country became ravaged by the Civil War, religious sentiment grew stronger. A Reverend M. R. Watkinson appealed to Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, to add the phrase to all U.S. coins with the argument that “This would place us openly under the Divine protection.”

Not true.

The belief that proclaiming a condition brings it into existence is magical thinking. Common in young children but considered psychotic or New Age religion in grownups.

Trust is formed by neurological connections in the brain through interactions with those who prove to be trustworthy over multiple encounters over time.

Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist, researched the importance of trust development infancy. He noted that when caregivers are a consistent source of comfort, food, and affection, an infant learns trust. The baby develops a belief that others are dependable and reliable. If caregivers are neglectful the infant learns mistrust. The baby then develops a belief that the world is an unpredictable, undependable, and possibly a dangerous place.

We’re forced to trust others whose superior

  1. knowledge of facts that we don’t know
  2. can lead to understanding of the root problem
  3. with wisdom of which option
  4. is the best action 
  5. to resolve the problem.

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1) Endless Or Pointless Existence?

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Stephen Hawking is a genius physicist and “one of the most important scientists and public intellectuals of our time, if not all time.” 

But despite being a top ranked scientist among scientists, Stephen Hawking does not base his choice of belief system on evidence.

Note carefully that Stephen Hawking’s choice of belief is made to resolve his emotional response to the concept of an afterlife. As he states, he is grateful to conclude that there is no afterlife.

This is understandable, since he spent his entire adult life struggling with a severely debilitating physical disease, experiencing, in essence, the misery of a disembodied soul as postulated to be the condition of the afterlife.

But is someone’s emotionally disturbed coping mechanism a viable basis on which to base belief directing your own life’s choices and plans for your own soul’s fate after death? 

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2) Hyperdimensional Or Material?

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Hyperdimensions – having more dimensions than observable by humans.

Material – in philosophy, the view that everything is caused by physical processes.

The choice would seem to be obvious. The conviction that there are parts of reality that can’t be observed by human senses – like, say, things way off in the distance, or things really tiny – is intrinsic to all scientific investigation. Aristotle articulated it as the logic that ‘nothingness’ cannot “be”.

The birth of modern science is the transformation it entrained in our conception of space –the concept of empty space where ‘nothing’ can “be”, asserted by Galileo during the Renaissance in the 1600’s.

From Physics Forum online: The “fabric of space” is not made 0F anything- it is just space itself.

This is not a scientific finding. It was obviously impossible for Galileo to go up in space to prove his claim, not to mention it is, obviously, impossible for science to prove the existence of nothing. This a philosophical argument deriving from humanism’s postulate that there is nothing that humans can’t perceive, ergo understand, ergo control, ergo no Higher Power than humanity.

But further scientific developments in the 1900s beginning with Albert Einstein’s quantum physics determined that what humans perceive as solid matter, i.e. mass, is due to humanity’s perceptual limitations. In reality, the atoms that form objects and substances that we call solid are actually made up of 99.99999% movement, a form of energy.

Einstein elegantly explains how energy can be perceived as solid substance in his famous mathematical sentence E=mc2, i.e.

Energy become mass when acted upon by c2 where c = the speed of light, the absolute upper limit of speed in our universe. Squaring it, i.e. multiplying it by itself cannot not realistically become meters2 per sec2 so is not a velocity but instead the crucial factor that unlocks one of the greatest secrets of the universe – the infinitely pervasive and powerful force outside the bounds of the laws of nature. 

This alone defines Creator God of the Bible.

And to further confound the sciences’ neat but kindergarten level classification of reality into energy OR matter:

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3) Knowledge Or Ignorance Of Death?

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Death is the biggest crisis we’ll face in life. The most important information, guiding our values and behaviors during our lifetime, is what happens after this lifetime.

Since science does not have the tools to explore this condition, any information about this is typically delegated to religion. But there are over 4,000 religions in the world offering hope for a quality of spiritual existence after death of the body, severely limiting the credibility of any one of them.

As there is no consistency in the multiple religions or even denominations of religions claiming to be  based on the same source, this study does not include religious beliefs. This blog-book investigates the claims of the source document, not religions or religious leaders spinning off from the sourcebook.

It is a fact that the Bible is the single most trusted collection of revelation of spirituality, history, future predictions including the end of the world, and life after death. Despite massive culture shifts from hunter-gatherer to high tech societies it has remained relevant over the past 3,500 years since Moses compiled even more ancient documents into the multi-national Hebrew Torah, developed into the monotheistic faiths of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

I did not set out to prove or disprove the Bible. I just wanted to satisfy myself that my decisions about it were informed, not contaminated by dogmatic religious beliefs or rejected due to religious corruption.

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4) Rebirth Or Renaissance?

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The Bible states that physical life, empowered by the mother’s mitochondria into growth and development of one cell into a complete human being capable of interacting in the physical domain, requires a second birth empowered by God in order to advance to a higher quality and length of life in the spirit domain.

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see / perceive / experience the kingdom / realm / rule of  God / divinity.“

We can translate this to current American politics by stating “Except you donate millions of dollars to my campaign you cannot get a place in my government”, flatly stating an absolute requirement for membership in this realm.

In God’s case, it is a matter of physics – the difference between matter and energy / spirit, scientifically validated by Einstein’s discovery of e=mc2: energy = mass acted upon by c2 / universal infinity / God.

“That which is born / created of the flesh / mass is flesh; and that which is born / created of the Spirit / Energy is spirit…

The wind / kinetic energy bloweth where it listeth / wishes...and thou hearest the sound thereof / perceive the effects, but canst not tell / know whence it cometh, and whither it goeth:

so [like the wind] is every one that is born of the Spirit/ incomprehensible to strictly fleshly humans…”

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved…And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:3-19)

This provides a clear distinction between

  1. the human new birth empowered by God’s Holy Spirit and
  2. the rebirth of the pagan gods into human flesh.

The best starting point to begin the Renaissance rebirth of the Classical World is with the Iliad and Odyssey, written in the earliest stages of Greek society, sometime between 1050 and 850 BC. 

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