[Dan.Linehan]

Imagine this: a two dimensional being shaped like a sheet of paper is watching a human being dive off a board into a swimming pool, only being able to see a tiny slice of reality at any given time.

First he sees a slice of the fingertips, slivers of the hands and forearms as they drop towards the water, a slice of the arms on either side of the head. The torso, buttocks, legs, feet. Two dimensional slices of water splashing up from the impact.

The result would be very mysterious; an ever shifting flat shape appearing to lack any predictable continuity. If divers were walking up and jumping off the board at somewhat random intervals some scientific patterns might emerge, but it would still be totally impossible for the two-dimensional being to fully model what reality looked like from that limited viewpoint.

We're in the same situation. Walk across a room for 10 seconds. Even though you only see a slice of yourself at any given point you're actually creating a four dimensional shape in space time with your actions. Happens every moment of your life.

These fourth dimensional shapes are literally all around us, billions of years old, and we keep creating them with every move we make. Or maybe they were already created and we just chose to experience one unique part firsthand.

Either way, arguments for proof seem somewhat inane to me.

Two sheets of paper arguing whether what they are seeing is spiritual or scientific is ridiculous; someone diving into a pool could be considered both or neither even from a 3-d perspective, let alone in 2-d. They don't even know what they're seeing.

The more we learn scientifically the more we come back to the idea that something can't be created from nothing. And so we begin again looking for a first cause. Who's to say that observation isn't the first cause? Not me..