Imagine for a moment that the life you have lived up to this moment is but a dream. You have (once more) been deceived into accepting the false testimony of your senses, and believed in the existence of a life that is NOT. All your friends and family are figments of your imagination. Your job, your name and the basic facts of life are nothing as you thought…..
Seems far fetched doesn’t it? but is it impossible? The answer is irrefutably ‘No’. Your life and the world as you see it, could be a dream. It may also be a 3D computer simulation and your brain may be lying in a vat as in the Matrix movies! In short, your senses may be deceiving you…and there exists no scientific or rational argument that can possibly deny this evident reality.
All the facts I know about the physical sciences, have reached me through the evidence of my senses. So ‘scientific facts’ are simply one kind of knowledge that I have gained through the fallible testimony of sense experience. As such, no matter how many experiments might prove a ‘fact’ it remains within the category of things that have come to us by a means that can be doubted.
So what cannot be doubted? Rene Descartes answered this question centuries ago…I think, therefore I am. If today I assumed that my senses were deceiving me, I would not possess knowledge of anything except the undeniable reality that ‘I’ existed as a conscious and thinking being. Because if I did not…then who was doing the doubting? Clearly I exist. I exist even if the universe does not. I exist even if the Big Bang never occurred and evolution never happened.
Having established this fact. The question would then arise ‘how did I get here?’ there does not appear to be any possibility of answering this question without concluding that ‘I’ was created by a being more powerful than ‘I’.
So, the only two things I know is that I am and my Creator is. all arguments, evidence, deductions and inductions gained through a source (human perception) that can be doubted cannot dilute these facts that cannot be doubted, refuted or denied.