Does the Atom have free will?
I recently came across online reviews and blogs related to a recently released book titled “Determined” by Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist who appeared to have concluded after extensive reserach that there is no such thing as “free will” for mankind.
I also recently released a book about the scientific nature of the Bible titled THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE 3 that is available on Amazon. An outline of how God designed the human brain involving emotions, including neurological research and studies, appear to indicate that free will is innate but for the brain to be expanded, laws are needed for developing free will as well.
The characters of book are God the Designer, the Atom which was the material God used to design heaven and earth with including the human body, and Emotions, God’s helpers designed to facilitate the survival of earth’s living species.
I am submitting claims that God was fully aware of the atom when He designed the first man (Adam), and God imitated the atom’s structural design in designing him. This made it possible for God to create Eve from Adam’s rib in the second chapter of Genesis 2: 20-23 (NLJV), as the structural design of the atom was loaded into Adam. The second most important claim that I am submitting is that after Adam and Eve were created, the rest of Biblical stories were about how to develop the human brain, specifically in developing emotions. Even emotions were designed following the blueprint of the atom.
What does the atom have to do with free will you may ask? The roles that both the atom and emotions play in human survival according to science, provide enough clues in parallel to the biblical design and development of the human brain that a reasonable conclusion can be made based on available studies from fields of neurology and emotion development that God designed us with free will wired into our neurological structures.
Free will, however, leads to an action for the purpose of improving or maintaining survival. Choosing what to eat for breakfast is an example of free will that leads to deliberate action. But as established by our experts clearly, behind every act is an emotion (Cherry, 2023). The behavior, that of eating breakfast, was facilitated by hunger the emotion. Deciding to eat breakfast is not the only choice involved, but also choices as to what to eat. It is in this area that requires further understanding as to whether the choices of what to eat were influenced by other forces. Because of the need to develop proper emotions for survival, one can argue that the choice as to what to eat was therefore not free.
I am claiming in the book that as emotions were designed in imitation of the atom’s particles, they are therefore innate. God’s design, however, included programs that were designed for developing emotions and favors emotions that our experts classify as positive. The reason why as discussed with claims in the book, is that positive emotions are needed for brain development. To develop emotions then, God came up with laws for this purpose. The freedom is there for one to choose to follow God or not for mortal and immortal survival purposes, but in the process, one has to develop the proper emotions for this relationship to work.
This is the gray area that needs further understanding as developing emotions according to biblical design, required laws and it was God who created these laws. In that case, one can legitimately claim that man really did not have free will since his decisions were influenced by outsiders such as God’s laws. However, understanding the design of the atom will provide a better outline in understanding as to whether even with God’s laws or laws of modern society, man was designed to have free will.
A. The Biblical Design of the Brain Garden of Eden.
I am submitting many claims in the book as to the scientific nature of biblical stories recorded in parables. However, the two most important ones are that: first, when God created Adam, He designed him in imitation of the atom’s structure; second, once Adam and Eve were created, the rest of biblical stories were about God’s design in developing mankind neurologically.
Part of this development design included the four biblical icons: the Tree of Knowledge which I claim to be the “neuron”, the Garden of Eden which I claim to be the “brain” or “neuron forest”, and the Tree of Life which I claim to be the Ten Commandments. The Ark of the Covenant was presented as a testimony proving that God was fully aware of the atom when He created heaven and earth, and God imitated its design in creating Adam. The Ark was the first atomic bomb in the universe.
The key in determining whether man was designed with the will to think independently can be analyzed from various Biblical angles based on parables. It begins with admitting two scientific facts: first, all ordinary matters in the universe are made from the atom (What is the Universe made of?, 2003); second, man is also made of billions and billions of atoms totaling around 7 followed by 27 zeros (Love, 1970),
B. Atom
There are numerous fascinating facts about the atom including its invisibility and what appears to be its immortal nature. But the most fascinating fact about the atom for me is its ability to change shape. Based on its basic features known to our experts today, the atom acts like it is alive to me. I am claiming in the book that it is this ability of the atom to change shape that enables it to live as if immortal. It is fascinating because this operational design of its structure is similar to the spiritual Biblical design of man according to God.
For example, the Bible teaches us that regardless of what you did in your past, you can transform yourself and be someone else by simply showing remorse for your past behaviors (using negative emotions) and begin following God’s laws by applying positive emotions. This is how mankind changes shape and the key to living immortal as discussed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Book of Mathews 5 (NKJV)
As man was designed from the atom, the similarity in the process for immortal survival is no coincidence. The atom undergoes the same process in order to stabilize itself and live to perform its tasks. I am claiming in the book that the atom operates as if it is alive. It does not offer burnt sacrifices but does stabilize itself with two known processes called “positron emission” and “electron capture”. This was how it was designed.
With the exception of the hydrogen atom which has no neutral neutron, the atom was designed with three different kinds of particles: electrically charged positive protons, its opposite of electrically charged negative electrons, and neutral neutrons (no electrical charge). I renamed the atom’s particles following biblical parables with the positive proton as “good”, the negative electron as “evil” and the neutral neutron as God’s particle.
The design of the atom has the proton (good) and neutron (God) attached to each other and live or stay in the center of the atom, while the negative electrons run around in circles above them. It is this relationship where the neutron holds onto the proton as if to keep it away from coming in contact with the electron that I claim stabilizes the atom and as a result, the atom is deemed to be immortal (Greighton, 2015).
The structural design of the atom is similar to the structural design of the relationship that God advocated for in the Bible. For example, God wanted man to do good while avoiding doing evil. So God can be said to be pro-positive and anti-negative.
At times though, a negative electron particle enters the center of the atom uninvited where the proton (good) and the neutral neutron (God) live. When this happens, it destabilizes the atom.
The atom then undergoes two known processes referred to as Positron Emission and Electron Capture. Both are too complicated and require a few pages to explain. But to simplify for our purposes, the atom stabilizes itself by kicking the electron (evil) out from where the neutron (God) and the positive proton (good) live in the center of the atom. This leaves the atom with an extra proton. So what the atom does is turn a positive proton (good) into a neutral neutron (God) and in doing so, the atom evens up the numbers of negative electrons and positive protons. This stabilizes the atom.
This is an example of this process. Nitrogen gas is made up of seven protons, seven electrons, and seven neutral neutrons. If an electron enters the center or nucleus of the atom, the electron is kicked out of the atom, the seventh proton (good) is turned into a neutron (God), and the number of protons and electrons becomes even at six a piece.
As a nitrogen atom is made up of seven particles, the atom is no longer a nitrogen atom as the number of its particles dropped to six. But the element with six particles is Carbon. So the atom that was once an atom for the hydrogen, is transformed to form a new element which is the Carbon gas with six particles (Madhusha, 2018).
The atom therefore without any known provocation except by laws of nature according to science, transforms itself into a different element. What does this have to do with free will? It appears that for God’s people, the atom was designed to survive; and for God’s adversaries, the atom randomly created itself to survive by transforming itself when the need arises. And since all ordinary matters in the universe are made of atoms including earth and human beings, it is reasonable to assume that a collapse of the atom will result in the collapse or the demise of heaven and earth.
The decision by the atom to transform itself, however, included laws such as the weak force, or strong force, and other laws that keep it operational. These laws were also duplicated in designing Adam. God refers to these laws as the Tree of Life. A conclusion must be made as to whether free will exists for mankind, by analyzing the need for these laws that the atom and man need for their survival operations. Did these laws remove the atom’s free will to decide whether to commit suicide by destabilizing itself? If these laws randomly made this call, then a conclusion can be made that there is no free will. But what if these laws were designed to improve choices for survival purposes? This question is for better minds as the answer will lead to a reasonable conclusion that the atom was intentionally designed.
God, however, according to the biblical design of the Garden of Eden, said that He designed man with the same neurological survival tools as animals of the field and plants of fields, including free will. The changes were then preserved with Eve’s decision to choose knowledge. Genesis 3: 1-7 (NKJV). Eve made this call in spite of the threat of death. This was one of the scientific nature of Eve’s decision. As there was nobody else on earth for Eve to learn this from, means that the decision was rooted in an innate or a fundamental tool wired into her brain. This innate tool was free will.
C. Desire as the Neutron of Positive and Negative Emotions.
As I said above and claimed in the book, God imitated the design of the atom in designing Adam. God then re-designed the atom’s particles similarly but specifically and for the same purpose: maintaining human survival just like the particles do for the atom.
So God redesigned the atom’s positive proton and negative electron particles, and the snake revealed the redesign and the changes in identities as “good” (positive) and “evil” (negative) in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3: 4-5 (NKJV). Our experts, however, came later and renamed good and evil as two classes of “emotions”. If you notice, emotions coincidentally have been classified by our experts as “positive” (good) and “negative” (negative) emotions. We currently accept and associate “good” with “positive”; whereas we associate “evil” with “negative”.
But since the atom has three particles, then emotions were mandated to have a “neutron” particle. What was it then? It is my claim that this emotion was “desire”. This was why “desire” was the first emotion identified by God, and why it was involved with the decision by Eve to go for knowledge. Why? Because “desire” was presented by God as the neutron of emotions. Genesis 3: 6 (NKJV).
I call “desire” as the mother of emotions as neither positive nor negative emotions can be activated without the “desire” of the host to do so. One cannot apply negative emotions such as anger or hate without the desire to do so. Same thing with positive emotions such as loving someone, forgiving, or being remorseful. Like a human mother, desire gives life to these emotions. Some experts understand the role desire plays (Burton, 2014), including a 1950 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Bertrand Russel who understood just as God meant desire to be in the Garden of Eden, that “all human activity is promoted by desire”. (Bertrand, 1950)
So the redesign of the atom’s particles for developing mankind was done as the magnificence of the three: (1) positive emotions with their opposite of; (2) negative emotions just like the atom’s particles, (3) but with “desire” as their neutron or as I refer to it as the Mother of emotions. “Desire” as the neutron completed the imitation of the structure of the atom’s three-particle design in designing emotions, the scientific helpers for mankind.
Once I understood the role the “neutron” plays in the survival of the atom and the role “desire” was designed to play for mankind, then I understood the basis of the biblical design related to free will.
The atom’s ability to change shape to form another element such as what happens to the nitrogen and carbon atoms as explained above, dictates the atom as an element that acts like it is alive. Therefore, its ability to change shape to form another element indicates a deliberate act and decision that can be said, attributed to its ability to survive as if immortal.
According to our experts, every human behavior or act is facilitated by an emotion (Ackerman, 2019). Emotions like the atom’s particles, come in opposite-attract pairs. The decision to choose a behavior facilitated by negative or positive emotions for survival again implicates the idea of the free will to choose between the two.
D. Summary
In summary of this first part of the discussion, the design of the atom is where the research should be related to the question of whether man was designed with innate free will. The atom as I claim, acts like it is alive. In a sense, it has to as all ordinary matters in the universe are made from it. I am not sure whether the universe will collapse if the atom starts destablizing but it makes sense if it does. It is no coincidence that trillions are spent by governments to find out more about the magical and invisible atom.
If the laws of nature are responsible for the atom’s ability to transform itself into a different element, does this indicate deliberate design? If the atom acts randomly, then we cannot escape the appearance that the atom has free will! If man was made full of atoms and designed after the atom according to God, what reasonable conclusion can be made from this?
In the next post, I will discuss the design of the Tree of Knowledge (neurons), and Garden of Eden (brain neuron forest), and the role emotions play in developing neurons and brain forests, that lead to attaining knowledge and improving human survival. One can deduct from the design of neurons, neuron forests, and emotions as to whether man was designed with free will according to Biblical design. Have a blessed day.
Timeout A. Taumua, Author
