Apologetics

My special guest, Meridith Black, and I connected on LinkedIn about 6 years ago (not positive on date) = I've been making a point to read her posts for 6 years. This week is a unique opportunity and 1 that I'm uniquely grateful for.

Apologetics

I didn't know what that term was until reading Meridith's post, and even then, I read her points, but I didn't ask questions. I'm grateful she agreed to come on Easy to read Deep Thoughts and measuring from our chat responses, I'm confident this could be 1 of our Deepest episodes so far.

Faith

My faith journey is new. I did not grow up in that type of environment, and I did not have influences inspiring me to move in that direction. The perspective I'm sharing here was formed as an adult looking backward and now as a faithful believer looking forward.

I still don't know a lot. I didn't expect to see what I've seen and conclude what I've concluded. This whole Christian experience caught me off guard. I say guard functionally. I did have my guard up and up until a few years ago, I was throwing up witting materialistic rebuttals to any and all religious claims.

"I fought the law, and the law won"

I taught myself high-level statistics at home, watching YouTube videos after my daughters went to sleep. This enabled me to pass the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Six Sigma Black Belt exam in 2016. For context, ASQ's exam is 1 of the hardest, most comprehensive, and most detailed statistical exams on the planet.

This learning came before learning what everyone else was talking about was real. In hindsight, I didn't learn that religion was real. I already knew. Like a little kid refusing to do their homework, my materialistic claims lame and shallow in thought.

Does a falling tree make a sound?

I googled 'Apologetics' as a refresher before writing this, and I'm banking on Meridith diving into the specific specifics. If we can't measure something, does it still exist? Materialistic ideology suggests not.

I'm pro-science in nearly every way, but the following realisation is a well-accepted fail point I no longer subscribe to. If conclusions are measured from measurability, the conclusions represent the measurability, not what's being measured.

Picture this directionally. We perceive that we're measuring the universe, and our measured measures are its output = This is not true. Our output measures are only measures of the measured input = we're measuring the inside of our tools, not the outside universe.

Six Sigma says God

The most significant moments in my life are significant in immeasurable ways. I viewed the evidence from an objective, pessimistic, materialistic perspective, and God was the most intelligent conclusion to make. Any other conclusion would have been a measure of the conclusions' measurability, which is NOT significant to what's being measured.

I can't measure God. Him and I laugh about it