Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Consciousness and Truth

Jean Paul Sartre so aptly wrote: "All consciousness is consciousness of something." Consciousness experiences the difference between something and nothing, and it matters not whether that experience is an illusion  or reality; there can be no doubt whatsoever that consciousness experiences. Even those who deny that consciousness exists cannot deny that they experience a denial that consciousness exists. Consciousness always experiences something. 


This undeniable fact from Jean Paul Sartre raises the question: What exists in the absence of consciousness? Since only consciousness can experience the difference between something and nothing, then no difference can exist between something and nothing in the absence of consciousness. Those who contend that reality remains the same in the absence of consciousness, and that the difference between something and nothing exists on its own, forget that they must use their imaginations to distinguish between something and nothing in order to make that claim. The question they must really ask themselves is what exists in a state of absolute nonconsciousness? They cannot use their imaginations to answer that question, and so the only possible answer can only be that absolutely nothing exists in a nonconscious state. They cannot claim that nothing exists because only consciousness can tell the difference between something and nothing. Thus, something can only exist as an idea in the mind, and nothing also can only exist as an idea in the mind. Only consciousness can establish reality even if reality happens to be only an illusion. 


The search for truth in science happens to be based on two standards of experience; that is, observation and experimentation. In the absence of these experiences, no truth can be known for certain. The consciousness of the scientist becomes absolutely necessary for the discovery and the knowledge of the truth. In a state of nonconsciousness, they can know absolutely nothing. Therefore, the only creative process is a known process, and the only truth is a known truth. 


But those scientists who adhere to the theory of evolution believe that an absolutely blind and nonconscious process produced the universe and all life. As such, they violate their own standard of learning by observation because everyone knows that no nonconscious process ever produces an operational system of any kind, much less a system as complicated as life. Has anyone ever observed a nonconscious corpse do anything but decay? Nonconsciousness never experiences anything, and without consciousness there can be no creative processes of any kind. The evolutionists claim that the billions of years of the universe eventually produces viable systems. But common sense knows that even if the universe were trillions of years old and nonconscious, it could never produce a complex system of any kind. 


An Infinite Consciousness that knows everything that can be known must exist to create the universe and life. Genesis 1:1 (KJB). 

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