I Spent a Decade Looking for God. Here's What I Found Instead.
Somewhere north of two hundred podcasts. More than sixty books, dog-eared and underlined, stacked on a shelf that used to hold scripture. A decade of nights where I told myself I'd sleep after just one more chapter, one more lecture, one more debate clip, and then watched the clock cross four in the morning anyway. I did this for years before I let myself say out loud what I was actually doing: trying to find out if God was real, using every tool except the one I was raised to use, which was simply believing. Here's the honest end of that search. There is no truth waiting at the bottom of it, not the kind I was hoping for. What I found instead were parameters, the edges of what evolution and consciousness can currently explain and the much larger space just outside those edges where I still don't know anything. I didn't find God. I found a haunted question I can't put down, and I've decided that's a more honest place to live than certainty was. Where It...