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If you are a scientist, and have read some of my posts and wonder if I’m another loony, great: read on.

I am a scientifically-minded human. Now before someone asks an absolutely silly question: no, I have no supernatural powers. I have no paranormal powers. I am completely ordinary. As ordinary as you get with genetic diversity in the human species. But I believe I have found God. So what is it that I have found?

I have a number of symptoms that are potentially of interest. I ponder the role of genetics on the mind, and the relationship between a person’s memes and genes. I ponder the effect of the genes we have on the memes our minds can support.

I would love to investigate religion with you, I do suspect I might have a contribution to make if there are still any open questions about the matter. How can there not be? Especially considering how little some scientists seem to know about religion? However, I have not read any scientific literature on the matter. I’m trying to finish a Master’s in Electronic Engineering. It is particularly difficult with what might be described as obsessive-compulsive or attention-deficit tendencies. (I dislike labels, I think labels kill the human spirit.) I have also developed a dislike of our educational system, based on the effect it had on me given my “symptoms”.

Might we explore spirituality together? Scientifically? In particular, this touches on emotion, psychology, memetics, irrationallity and creatively. For that is where I believe “God” is found. Deep in the human psyche, a part of us all. Something bigger than us all: to please the theists that might dislike my language use here. Yes guys, God is great. If you have lost God, it is because you didn’t realise how great God is…

That is my invitation. I must still try to finish writing up my thesis first, after which I have a lot of work to do in South Africa. I value my freedom. I will not be a lab rat. I will be a co-scientist, if there is something that we could explore together. (At this point in time, I wouldn’t know what? In a sense, I believe in non-overlapping magisteria. But we can go search for links.)

There, are the scientists happier now?

Tag: Evolving Thoughts, The Primate Diaries, and just for the hell of it, that heartless atheist (who would take that as a complement), Pharyngula. Yea, that was scary, wasn’t it. I must have God, in order to walk through that valley of the shadow of death.

For my next trick, I shall both scold the theists to try to destigmatise atheism, and offend all the atheists in one fell swoop: the atheists also know God. They also have God. Don’t let their words confuse you.

ps. I can speak and think in pure, cold, hard science, even if you don’t see it much by looking at these blog posts. So don’t let that fool you. This is not exactly a science blog. (It’s a religion/science blog. ) I can be extremely skeptical, when needed. I can be more skeptical than you are.