Tenets of Deism

Overview

The Tenets Of Deism is a document that purports to giving a non-mathematical explanation of the world, in terms of physics and the physical world. It shares a name with Deism but is not related to the faith of Deism founded by Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648).

It supposes that criticisms where freethought would lead inevitably to atheism are false. Perhaps the key supposition of the Tenets of Deism is that 'On the largest scale of resolution, cosmology is indistinguishable from religion.'

History and Deism

Deism is the belief that an intelligentual being created the world, but this being is no longer involved with the world or the affairs of people.

The founder of Deism was Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Deism flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and reached its zenith around the time of the American Revolution. This view was popular among European thinkers such as Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Deists purported teleological arguments for God’s existence. That the great complexity in the world shows evidence of a designer. David Hume dealt a major death blow to Deism with his radical rationality, and Deism did not survive into the 20th century.

Contents of the Tenets

The first half of the work is a framework of science. This is regarded as the supposition of form. Perhaps its most interesting claim is an explanation of string theory, giving a real world explanation of how string theory may occur.

The second half is the supposition of belief and deals with issues of god. It differs from classical deism in its approach to God. Deism purports to an indifferent god. The Tenets claim to purport to a god that not only is the universe, but who's thoughts are the actions and movements of matter transfer in the universe.

Supposition of form: Format

Below is an extract from the supposition of form referring to a belief that numbers are invariably tied into Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and that words are necessary in any full explanation of the universe:

'Closed language does not suffer Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Anything that can be said in numbers can be said in words. Words are just as valid as numbers.
It is not possible to describe a ‘complete’ system containing definitive’s by numbers alone, and visa versa. All final theorems would require both numbers and words.' '

Supposition of form: science

Below is an extract from the supposition of form. Perhaps its most interesting potential aspect is that is seems to give real world explanation as to how string theory and superstring theory seem to happen, in the real world. Its obtuse use of words over numbers may be seen as off-putting to many theoretical physicists.
Sections of the Tenets alude to providing equlibrium solutions of quantum gravity, although real world evidence, experimentally or otherwise is not present.

Direct extracts relating to string theory:

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Supposition of form: proposed experiments

Within the Tenets is a section that describes predictions and several experimental methods to prove its suppositions.
Two experiments allude to an extrapolation of general relativity and others describe ways of interacting with dark energy.

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