The Purpose of this Blog

The purpose of this blog is simple. I hope it will serve as a "scratch pad" for ideas I've had regarding the nature of the universe and how understanding that reality can illuminate the question of existence of God. Eventually, I plan to compile these ideas into logical form and eventually publish them as a book.

My hope is that I will receive feedback and thoughts from visitors to this blog, and this will help me to refine my ideas and see holes in my thought process that I might otherwise miss should I just let my thoughts ferment only in my own mind.

I encourage readers to post comments, suggestions or ideas of their own in order to facilitate discussion on these concepts.

But No Rants Please!

Although I am looking for differing points of view, and am open to having holes poked in my ideas and theories, I am not interested in rants. If you are only interested in telling me how I am going to hell for questioning the existence of God, please don't bother. However, if you have something intelligent to add -- regardless of whether it supports or refutes something I've said -- please feel free to voice your opinion.

Later on I hope to attach a discussion forum to this blog so that it will be easier for readers to share their ideas and be involved in discussions.

If you would like to know a little bit about me, where I come from and why I am creating this blog, please read my profile where I give a little history of my background.

For myself, I see this blog shaping into two separate types of posts. First, I will be posting questions that I am asking myself in exploring these topics, and see what kind of thoughts others have on these subjects. These questions may simply be a straightforward statement of a thought or query, or it may include a short discussion representing my own thoughts regarding the question.

Secondly, I will be including short essays exploring different concepts in a more complete format. These essays will likely represent the first drafts of chapters that I plan to include in the future book I'm working on.

I have written a paper on this subject and initially I will likely draw from that earlier work, but my hope is that, through help from you my constant readers (to take a page from Stephen King), I'll be able to expand on those ideas and moving in totally new directions as well.

So thanks for stopping by and I look forward to hearing from each of you!

--Eric