Theological Science* and Gottfried Leibniz

Since books on Gottfried Leibniz can be found only in used bookstores today, I summarize Leibniz’s Monadology in Part IV of my book, "The First Scientific Proof of God." To study Leibniz, I suggest that one begins such a study with "Leibniz: Philosophical Writing" by G. H. R. Parkinson. This book shows Leibniz’s thoughts that began to question Isaac Newton’s universe that has absolute space. Newton’s Universe would then be questioned by Germany’s Bernhard Riemann paper, "On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry.’ When Riemann became the immediate predecessor of Albert Einstein, the relativity theory of space would cause a wide rejection of Newton’s Universe.

In order to develop theological science, I use Leibniz’s theory of ‘a best world of all possible worlds.’ This theory says the universe is an organism and thus cannot be explained as a mechanism. So, Leibniz would not accept the mechanical world of today’s physicists. I also use Leibniz’s monads, which I call spiritual atoms. Each spiritual atom is in all other spiritual atom in a way so that each spiritual atom is different and complete.

In Parkinson’s book, Leibniz fails to prove that man’s choices are free and that God knows these choices a prior. However, knowing our choices a priori does not mean that God is choosing our choices for us. When God perceives our choices, this does not mean that God exists in our world. Perceiving infinitely by God or perceiving finitely by us differ maximally. So, when God perceives, he merely knows why we made a choice. So, God also knows why we make good or evil choices. Thus, we must guess the answers to many questions. But God makes no guesses. Leibniz also fails to prove his theory that the mind-body relation forms a whole. I say that the mind-body relation forms a whole because each created spiritual atom has a different and an unchanging principle of organizing wholes.

As long as the school of physics continues to reject God, it will continue to assume that the universe is a mechanism. And this assumption will continue to lure life scientists to the physical sciences. But why are cancer and other human ills not being solved?

With today’s growth of mechanical science by atheism, man has come to a critical period of time when we must make new choices. If our new choices are in favor of God, I predict that mechanical science will reform, atheism will fall, and new Unions will develop throughout this planet.

* Theological science unifies scientific thoughts with people’s thoughts about God.