Now for my friend Bill..
"THE SECOND LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO EVOLUTION BECAUSE OF THE SUN"
You may have heard of John Gribbin.. well known science writer.. and friend of atheists. He wrote a book called "Blinded by the Light" subtitled "The Secret Life of the Sun" 1991.. It is an interesting read and he is a very articulate writer who captures the excitement of science at it best.. But in the inside cover we have this..
"Our ancestors worshiped the sun, rightly recognizing it as the bringer of life."
So the atheist commends ignorant pagan religious worship of the sun!! The mere suggestion by a modern secular 'scientist' beggars belief! In context of very basis of the atheist position I think this is actually revealing of where they are likely to end up.. the dark ages.
Since he introduces 'worship' to the story.. Lets just compare what the bible says about the matter..
1- The sun is a created object.. (ordered state of matter consistent with a creator)
2- It warns not to worship any created object.. (more reasonable to worship the sun's creator)
3- Created objects cannot hear you, will never respond to you and cannot do good or evil.. (the creator of the sun by definition can do all three)
Which I find more consistent and satisfying than Gribbin's distorted thinking! So to come back to the real question in hand..
Yes the sun's energy powers just about everything on the earth.. Yes the energy flow just like a gushing flood can and will result in local pockets of order or decreased entropy. Every such occurrence will be accompanied by a bigger increase in the surroundings. No problem so far. A flood might create a great heap of sand and debris or put a boat on top of a high roof. The suns energy powers tornadoes and evaporation of water all temporary states of order. Remember any state not in equilibrium of both momentum and position of all its atoms uniformly and randomly distributed is low entropy. It is the definition of 'surroundings' that is critical to the calculation.
It is easy to see that the local order created by a flood like putting a boat on top of a high building (entropy drop), is vastly over accounted for by the increase in disorder (entropy increase) in damage to the rest of the town. It is therefore a question of entropy accounting to verify if a process can pay the entropy cost of a particular ordered state. You may say well the suns energy flux is so massive as to account for any process on earth you care to imagine. Wrong..
To put a boat on top of Mt Everest is easily within the energy budget of the sun - earth system.. but the storm to do it is just not going to happen anytime soon. The price in entropy terms is too high! For the same reason the oceans of the world will never make a sand castle.. such as a child could make.. well inside the energy budget.. but way outside the entropy budget. Meaning the sun - earth system will virtually never accomplish such a task and the fundamental reason is the state of matter of the sandcastle is too improbable. Note these states of low entropy (order) are where the position of a group of atoms is not randomly distributed.
I hoped even atheists could get that.. but alas they don't..
Thursday, 24 March 2016
4.1 LIES
Now we come to the 'closed system' MYTH..
"SECOND LAW DOES NOT APPLY BECAUSE THE EARTH IS NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM"
Previously I showed why entropy by definition means: Measure of Disorder.. because it must encompass the tendency to both random position and momentum of atoms.. If this were not the case then atomic diffusion could not occur as predictably as it does. {Ref: The Cambridge Encyclopedia: Entropy}
Now all the momentum of all the atoms in a system averaged out = temperature, which is itself a measure of the quantity of heat energy in the system. But entropy is not energy.
The tendency to a random distribution of position is not apparent if all the atoms are the same. Confusing entropy and energy leads to the mistaken belief the calculation of entropy change based on heat flow alone is all that is required. But that calculation says nothing about a mixture of atoms (positional distribution of each type). It is precisely because we know a mixture will of itself tend to distribute into a homogeneous state, (called atomic diffusion) we know any calculation of entropy cannot ignore positional distribution, of any particles in the system. If the temperature and pressure in a room is uniform but half of the room is oxygen and the other nitrogen it is in an ordered state and has not reached thermodynamic equilibrium.
The above tendencies are the reason heat will always flow from hot to cold and atoms will mix evenly (diffusion). So powerful is this tendency it means all real processes observable on earth are irreversable and will never be observed to go the other way.. unless driven to do so as in a refrigerator. The refrigerator does NOT change that tendency.. it overcomes it by having in place an ordering principle that directs energy to pump heat from cold to hot. Note the second law is dependent upon the average tendency to equilibrium (position and momentum) which always acts in all systems both closed and open.
Yes it is true the second law says.. "In an isolated system entropy will increase" if we ignore hypothetical and impossible 'reversible' systems which don't exist. We also do not need to bother with formal definitions of closed or isolated for my purpose here. So how do we know entropy will always increase.?
Because we can show that in any OPEN system for every (local) entropy decrease (ie order increase).. the process that does it creates a bigger increase in the entropy (disorder) of its immediate surroundings. That fact is experimentally verified. If this were not the case then we could not say entropy will always increase in an isolated system! So the very definition of the second law (for an isolated system) requires entropy balance in the open system.
So to state the 2nd law does not apply in open systems omits the crucial point that there is an entropy cost in open systems driven by the same thing that drives the second law. So in that sense while the second law cannot be 'applied' to an open system the principle that makes the second law possible will always work and it can be calculated.
The principle of entropy balance in open systems is all that is needed for me to show evolution by natural selection cannot pay the entropy cost for the very highly ordered states in living cells. That is the purpose of [The God Law] blog.
"SECOND LAW DOES NOT APPLY BECAUSE THE EARTH IS NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM"
Previously I showed why entropy by definition means: Measure of Disorder.. because it must encompass the tendency to both random position and momentum of atoms.. If this were not the case then atomic diffusion could not occur as predictably as it does. {Ref: The Cambridge Encyclopedia: Entropy}
Now all the momentum of all the atoms in a system averaged out = temperature, which is itself a measure of the quantity of heat energy in the system. But entropy is not energy.
The tendency to a random distribution of position is not apparent if all the atoms are the same. Confusing entropy and energy leads to the mistaken belief the calculation of entropy change based on heat flow alone is all that is required. But that calculation says nothing about a mixture of atoms (positional distribution of each type). It is precisely because we know a mixture will of itself tend to distribute into a homogeneous state, (called atomic diffusion) we know any calculation of entropy cannot ignore positional distribution, of any particles in the system. If the temperature and pressure in a room is uniform but half of the room is oxygen and the other nitrogen it is in an ordered state and has not reached thermodynamic equilibrium.
The above tendencies are the reason heat will always flow from hot to cold and atoms will mix evenly (diffusion). So powerful is this tendency it means all real processes observable on earth are irreversable and will never be observed to go the other way.. unless driven to do so as in a refrigerator. The refrigerator does NOT change that tendency.. it overcomes it by having in place an ordering principle that directs energy to pump heat from cold to hot. Note the second law is dependent upon the average tendency to equilibrium (position and momentum) which always acts in all systems both closed and open.
Yes it is true the second law says.. "In an isolated system entropy will increase" if we ignore hypothetical and impossible 'reversible' systems which don't exist. We also do not need to bother with formal definitions of closed or isolated for my purpose here. So how do we know entropy will always increase.?
Because we can show that in any OPEN system for every (local) entropy decrease (ie order increase).. the process that does it creates a bigger increase in the entropy (disorder) of its immediate surroundings. That fact is experimentally verified. If this were not the case then we could not say entropy will always increase in an isolated system! So the very definition of the second law (for an isolated system) requires entropy balance in the open system.
So to state the 2nd law does not apply in open systems omits the crucial point that there is an entropy cost in open systems driven by the same thing that drives the second law. So in that sense while the second law cannot be 'applied' to an open system the principle that makes the second law possible will always work and it can be calculated.
The principle of entropy balance in open systems is all that is needed for me to show evolution by natural selection cannot pay the entropy cost for the very highly ordered states in living cells. That is the purpose of [The God Law] blog.
4.0 LIES
Sorry to have to go to the technical stuff but this is most urgent..
In my 'travels' on the net.. particularly Twitter.. certain false ideas held very close by my critics.. recur again and again ad-nauseum..
"The second law does not apply to evolution.. because of the sun"
"The second law only applies to closed systems.. earth is not a closed system"
"The flow of energy from the sun more than accounts for any small decrease in entropy on earth with massive increase in the universe"
All three are really saying the SAME THING.. so can be answered comprehensively with the same verified and well known science. The statements include a small grain of truth.. but for reasons I will demonstrate are actually false and misleading.. because they are based on a real lie. I don't just mean something that's 'false' incidentally.. I mean a LIE.. a deliberate false statement by someone who KNOWS what they are saying..
The first is..
"ENTROPY IS A MEASURE OF UNAVAILABLE ENERGY AND ITS INCREASE IS JUST THE INCREASE IN ENERGY UNAVAILABLE TO DO WORK" and it comes from a number of sources including the Wikipedia.. It takes many guises such as..
"THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY IS MEASURED BY HEAT FLOW AND DIFFERENT FROM STATISTICAL ENTROPY WHICH ONLY APPLIES TO IDEAL OR RAREFIED GASES"..
What these are actually saying is..
"THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY IS NOT DISORDER".. or
"THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF ENTROPY"
Hawking, Penrose, Boltzman, Plank, Gibbs etc.. do not agree..
First I will answer in words even a deluded atheist on Twitter can understand.. then do some math..
The whole idea of entropy = disorder originates with Ludwig Boltzmann's work around 1902.. Clausius had already discovered the effect of heat energy dissipation which he called 'entropy' some 40-50 years prior. It was Ludwig Boltzmann's belief in the atomic theory of matter that gave us the real understanding of what heat and entropy ultimately are.. for which he committed suicide in 1906 tormented by the club of big names still holding that matter was continuous! So what did he discover..
Heat = energy of motion of atoms which spreads because they jostle each other.. the end result being a random distribution of motion (momentum) which can be expressed as a probability distribution.
An equally important result of this is the jostling process also leads to a random distribution of position of the atoms. By which we understand atomic diffusion.
Entropy = a measure of how random both in position and momentum a particular group of atoms (called a system) has become.
A system in any state which is not fully random in both momentum and position of its atoms is said to have order. If it is fully randomized in both position and momentum of its atoms it is said to be in equilibrium.
So entropy by definition is a measure of how disordered a system is. Boltzmann showed us how it is calculated. What people denying this are really saying is entropy is measured only by atomic momentum (heat energy) and not position as well. They have been MISLED.. more to come.
In my 'travels' on the net.. particularly Twitter.. certain false ideas held very close by my critics.. recur again and again ad-nauseum..
"The second law does not apply to evolution.. because of the sun"
"The second law only applies to closed systems.. earth is not a closed system"
"The flow of energy from the sun more than accounts for any small decrease in entropy on earth with massive increase in the universe"
All three are really saying the SAME THING.. so can be answered comprehensively with the same verified and well known science. The statements include a small grain of truth.. but for reasons I will demonstrate are actually false and misleading.. because they are based on a real lie. I don't just mean something that's 'false' incidentally.. I mean a LIE.. a deliberate false statement by someone who KNOWS what they are saying..
The first is..
"ENTROPY IS A MEASURE OF UNAVAILABLE ENERGY AND ITS INCREASE IS JUST THE INCREASE IN ENERGY UNAVAILABLE TO DO WORK" and it comes from a number of sources including the Wikipedia.. It takes many guises such as..
"THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY IS MEASURED BY HEAT FLOW AND DIFFERENT FROM STATISTICAL ENTROPY WHICH ONLY APPLIES TO IDEAL OR RAREFIED GASES"..
What these are actually saying is..
"THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY IS NOT DISORDER".. or
"THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF ENTROPY"
Hawking, Penrose, Boltzman, Plank, Gibbs etc.. do not agree..
First I will answer in words even a deluded atheist on Twitter can understand.. then do some math..
The whole idea of entropy = disorder originates with Ludwig Boltzmann's work around 1902.. Clausius had already discovered the effect of heat energy dissipation which he called 'entropy' some 40-50 years prior. It was Ludwig Boltzmann's belief in the atomic theory of matter that gave us the real understanding of what heat and entropy ultimately are.. for which he committed suicide in 1906 tormented by the club of big names still holding that matter was continuous! So what did he discover..
Heat = energy of motion of atoms which spreads because they jostle each other.. the end result being a random distribution of motion (momentum) which can be expressed as a probability distribution.
An equally important result of this is the jostling process also leads to a random distribution of position of the atoms. By which we understand atomic diffusion.
Entropy = a measure of how random both in position and momentum a particular group of atoms (called a system) has become.
A system in any state which is not fully random in both momentum and position of its atoms is said to have order. If it is fully randomized in both position and momentum of its atoms it is said to be in equilibrium.
So entropy by definition is a measure of how disordered a system is. Boltzmann showed us how it is calculated. What people denying this are really saying is entropy is measured only by atomic momentum (heat energy) and not position as well. They have been MISLED.. more to come.
Thursday, 18 June 2015
3.0 Pain, Anguish and Death
Sorry its true.. if you live long enough.. you are going to suffer pain, mental anguish and ultimately death. Its a fundamental and inescapable truth of life.. wouldn't you really like to know why and what is the very best thing you can possibly do about it?
The ultimate simple answer as to why this is true is the existence of 'evil' as defined previously.. and as indicated previously its not just 'out there'.. someone else's fault.. nature or God (as may be supposed in the case of Job - biblical character, first book I ever read in the bible). We'll come to Job later but of course you will be well aware of the saying "I am my own worst enemy". It has been stated often before and I for one quite emphatically know it to be true of myself. Easy to see that 'wars' like huge tidal waves sweep over large numbers of essentially innocent people.. arrive with the darkest of dread.. at short notice if any at all.. are monstrous 'evils' from which 'we' seem to learn nothing. They continue to occur with an ominous and depressing regularity.. they are about the closest we know to the absolute of anti-civil behavior.. but at least they have a cause outside of our personal responsibility. So when we say "not my fault" by the way what we are actually saying is "God - you can't blame me for that one".. Two important things about that.. First you are acknowledging God as the judge of both yourself and the evil.. Second it is not entirely true! Sorry about that.. a word about 'nature'.
The relevant text comes from.. Rom 8:20-22
"for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"
That "now" means exactly that, now! It was and is still subjected to "groaning" because of us.. that is the state that all humanity got itself into.. and mostly is still in.. playing god.. instead of acknowledging the real one. There came a time when I had to accept.. I am the cause of evil.. and decide to stop playing God. Well if it was "by the will of him..." you can say God did it.. He brought the pain suffering and death.. CORRECT! But you must also include the "in hope"..
Result.. pain, suffering and death were necessary and actually the best he could do given the state we were in.. so totally disconnected from the truth about who we really are.. that's why the "in hope" above.. individually WE can do something about it.. there is HOPE..
The ultimate simple answer as to why this is true is the existence of 'evil' as defined previously.. and as indicated previously its not just 'out there'.. someone else's fault.. nature or God (as may be supposed in the case of Job - biblical character, first book I ever read in the bible). We'll come to Job later but of course you will be well aware of the saying "I am my own worst enemy". It has been stated often before and I for one quite emphatically know it to be true of myself. Easy to see that 'wars' like huge tidal waves sweep over large numbers of essentially innocent people.. arrive with the darkest of dread.. at short notice if any at all.. are monstrous 'evils' from which 'we' seem to learn nothing. They continue to occur with an ominous and depressing regularity.. they are about the closest we know to the absolute of anti-civil behavior.. but at least they have a cause outside of our personal responsibility. So when we say "not my fault" by the way what we are actually saying is "God - you can't blame me for that one".. Two important things about that.. First you are acknowledging God as the judge of both yourself and the evil.. Second it is not entirely true! Sorry about that.. a word about 'nature'.
The relevant text comes from.. Rom 8:20-22
"for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"
That "now" means exactly that, now! It was and is still subjected to "groaning" because of us.. that is the state that all humanity got itself into.. and mostly is still in.. playing god.. instead of acknowledging the real one. There came a time when I had to accept.. I am the cause of evil.. and decide to stop playing God. Well if it was "by the will of him..." you can say God did it.. He brought the pain suffering and death.. CORRECT! But you must also include the "in hope"..
Result.. pain, suffering and death were necessary and actually the best he could do given the state we were in.. so totally disconnected from the truth about who we really are.. that's why the "in hope" above.. individually WE can do something about it.. there is HOPE..
Monday, 2 February 2015
2.94 The Big Picture
So what of the 'agnostic'.. the "We don't know" club? What of the uneducated, ignorant, uninformed or misled? The short answer from me is I don't know.. But I would offer this 'health warning'.. your true motives and what you did with what you knew (truth) will bear heavier upon your life toward the end of it.. There are some things you do not want to have regrets about. The Bible has something very important to say about all that. I can only urge people to at least read it once in your life. Even Richard Dawkins says as much.
It is not my purpose to get 'religious' here.. I am simply stating what I have found to be most useful. For me its all about what is the most 'consistent' world view I can have that gives the highest degree of consistency across all the areas of my life.. intellectually, morally, physically and spiritually. Finding the answer to that was for me deeply fulfilling and gave real hope. There is something bigger about life and we can know it. Our universities and colleges excel at analysis but synthesis (putting it all together) is virtually missing. A group of academics I chanced to meet in a cafe, discussing tertiary education said "we are now incorporating 'ethics' into all courses".. I did not say it at the time but from what I have seen of it.. Its just "this is the law" then metaphorically speaking ruling a line "after that your on your own". This is completely inadequate for young people today.. Its vacuous and frankly dangerous particularly if they are repeatedly told they are "the most important person in the world" and at the same time just an animal.. go play god! That is an illegitimate 'freedom' we were not designed to have nor are we capable of controlling. What does the Bible say? "freedom is freedom to do what's right" by what standard? Well the rest of the book covers that.
The big picture of 'what's missing' is, I hope you can appreciate, not just applicable to science and education. Life is a whole journey and everyone's journey is different. Please value yourself carefully.. Do not entrust that to anyone else.. no matter how highly acclaimed.. they all have their own agenda and its likely not yours. Do your own research, ask questions and think critically.
From my journey I conclude, if I do not answer the question.. Who is God? I will never really be able to answer the question.. Who am I?
It is not my purpose to get 'religious' here.. I am simply stating what I have found to be most useful. For me its all about what is the most 'consistent' world view I can have that gives the highest degree of consistency across all the areas of my life.. intellectually, morally, physically and spiritually. Finding the answer to that was for me deeply fulfilling and gave real hope. There is something bigger about life and we can know it. Our universities and colleges excel at analysis but synthesis (putting it all together) is virtually missing. A group of academics I chanced to meet in a cafe, discussing tertiary education said "we are now incorporating 'ethics' into all courses".. I did not say it at the time but from what I have seen of it.. Its just "this is the law" then metaphorically speaking ruling a line "after that your on your own". This is completely inadequate for young people today.. Its vacuous and frankly dangerous particularly if they are repeatedly told they are "the most important person in the world" and at the same time just an animal.. go play god! That is an illegitimate 'freedom' we were not designed to have nor are we capable of controlling. What does the Bible say? "freedom is freedom to do what's right" by what standard? Well the rest of the book covers that.
The big picture of 'what's missing' is, I hope you can appreciate, not just applicable to science and education. Life is a whole journey and everyone's journey is different. Please value yourself carefully.. Do not entrust that to anyone else.. no matter how highly acclaimed.. they all have their own agenda and its likely not yours. Do your own research, ask questions and think critically.
From my journey I conclude, if I do not answer the question.. Who is God? I will never really be able to answer the question.. Who am I?
Friday, 30 January 2015
2.93 The Big Picture
Irwin Schrodinger summed up the ultimate conclusion of Atheistic thinking in his oft quoted little book from 1944.. What is Life.. "We are God"..! It demonstrates a couple of very fundamental things..
1. There is no world view we can take which actually removes God.. He just IS.. That person ends up in an un-winnable war with an immovable truth. "In the beginning God.." ends up being established as an irrefutable fact by the very process of argument designed to disprove it.
2. In embarking on this futile attempt to remove God from individual thought you end up with a far more sinister consequence. Even if that person does not believe "he is God".. they or any of their 'converts' to the idea who posses a power to do harm (weapon) run the considerable gauntlet of playing God over the vulnerable and defenceless.
You see its not just Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic etc.. who are 'evil' people. The weapon does not even have to be an Atomic Bomb, IED or AK47.. a box knife or even a position of temporal authority is sufficient. Evil is deep within me, you and everyone by simply choosing self as the ultimate authority for life and not the one who designed, planned and made it. Which is why he alone is the only legitimate authority.
Now this is the weird bit. It doesn't make any difference if the person with the weapon is an out an out theist.. shouting "God is great".. or a Priest of Holy Orders.. The act or threatened act of harm to the defenceless and vulnerable is a declaration.. "I am God".. Same meaning.. Playing God. I am not saying Atheists alone are evil.. just that Atheism is self defeating by failing to define and answer the real problem and religion has the same problem.. This 'evil' is a deeply rooted potential we all share.. the worst of the human weaknesses.
All of which points to the real necessity for an absolute morality.. We cannot be trusted to make it up.. we will fail and have done in the past. That's why the Bible has unique relevance and significance.
1. There is no world view we can take which actually removes God.. He just IS.. That person ends up in an un-winnable war with an immovable truth. "In the beginning God.." ends up being established as an irrefutable fact by the very process of argument designed to disprove it.
2. In embarking on this futile attempt to remove God from individual thought you end up with a far more sinister consequence. Even if that person does not believe "he is God".. they or any of their 'converts' to the idea who posses a power to do harm (weapon) run the considerable gauntlet of playing God over the vulnerable and defenceless.
You see its not just Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic etc.. who are 'evil' people. The weapon does not even have to be an Atomic Bomb, IED or AK47.. a box knife or even a position of temporal authority is sufficient. Evil is deep within me, you and everyone by simply choosing self as the ultimate authority for life and not the one who designed, planned and made it. Which is why he alone is the only legitimate authority.
Now this is the weird bit. It doesn't make any difference if the person with the weapon is an out an out theist.. shouting "God is great".. or a Priest of Holy Orders.. The act or threatened act of harm to the defenceless and vulnerable is a declaration.. "I am God".. Same meaning.. Playing God. I am not saying Atheists alone are evil.. just that Atheism is self defeating by failing to define and answer the real problem and religion has the same problem.. This 'evil' is a deeply rooted potential we all share.. the worst of the human weaknesses.
All of which points to the real necessity for an absolute morality.. We cannot be trusted to make it up.. we will fail and have done in the past. That's why the Bible has unique relevance and significance.
Thursday, 29 January 2015
2.92 The Big Picture
Now I am going to tell you a secret.. You have followed thus far and so I think earned your place in my innermost considerations. The secret is a secret because Daniel, an Israeli prophet in Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians July 10, 586 BC, was told to "close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end" Daniel 12:4.
In short God was going to bring on Israel an apparent great 'evil'.. but in fact it was ultimately for their 'good' and ultimately ours! Some wars have to happen! So what's the connection? Just hold on a bit.. First we have to clear the table of some irrelevant junk.
What is this "war on terror" we are in? If we define 'we' as the secular democratic 'free' West, primarily acknowledged at the national government level.. 'we' have a real problem. First its not a war in which the enemy can be decisively engaged.. Second the reason the enemy cannot be engaged is because 'they' and 'we' are not of the same kind.. Its not that we are not able to kill some of them or even kill some of their leaders.. they are not the source.. nor are the preachers of extremism.. nor are the populous who passively support the preachers.. nor are the 'holy books' which may be read to succour such dangerous ideas and no its not the ideas either!
In other words all the armoury at the disposal of modern western secular governments including education, freedom, human rights, high tech military hardware etc.. are ultimately useless. Why? Because we have not just left God out of our civilisation but encouraged ourselves to 'play god'.
There is no common 'battlefield' upon which western secularism and the spiritual powers of darkness can engage. By evading the 'truth' about life, 'we' have lost the capability to understand the deepest truth.. about ourselves.. our own 'evil'. So what is real 'evil'.. Playing God.. assuming his place and authority over the universe.
You may need to think about that..
In short God was going to bring on Israel an apparent great 'evil'.. but in fact it was ultimately for their 'good' and ultimately ours! Some wars have to happen! So what's the connection? Just hold on a bit.. First we have to clear the table of some irrelevant junk.
What is this "war on terror" we are in? If we define 'we' as the secular democratic 'free' West, primarily acknowledged at the national government level.. 'we' have a real problem. First its not a war in which the enemy can be decisively engaged.. Second the reason the enemy cannot be engaged is because 'they' and 'we' are not of the same kind.. Its not that we are not able to kill some of them or even kill some of their leaders.. they are not the source.. nor are the preachers of extremism.. nor are the populous who passively support the preachers.. nor are the 'holy books' which may be read to succour such dangerous ideas and no its not the ideas either!
In other words all the armoury at the disposal of modern western secular governments including education, freedom, human rights, high tech military hardware etc.. are ultimately useless. Why? Because we have not just left God out of our civilisation but encouraged ourselves to 'play god'.
There is no common 'battlefield' upon which western secularism and the spiritual powers of darkness can engage. By evading the 'truth' about life, 'we' have lost the capability to understand the deepest truth.. about ourselves.. our own 'evil'. So what is real 'evil'.. Playing God.. assuming his place and authority over the universe.
You may need to think about that..
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