Subject: Question of delusions, from Victor Senchenko

Dear Mr. Dawkins,

I had written to you earlier, to the address given on your website. When I enquired of Josh, your website’s webmaster, whether my letter had been received, he informed me that he could not locate it. It was discussed that another mail address may be provided for me, but I heard no more about it.

Recently I had seen your two-part documentary, “Enemies of reason”, which has prompted me to attempt writing to you once again.

I do this, so as to give you an experience you’ve never had before.

In your life – quite correctly – you reveal to humans that many of them are guilty of practicing delusions, by believing in spiritual, religious, and superstitious notions. You try to show how the gullibility of believers are exploited by those humans who choose to wield spiritualism, religions, and superstitions for their own benefit of obtaining financial rewards, and power of control over others. You exalt rational thinking, logic, and scientific principles as means of overcoming human delusions of religion and superstitions, and attaining pure physical truth.

And yet, and yet – be it, possibly, unbeknown by you – you too are deluded. In your case – as in that of all other humans – your delusions are part of the very fabric science, which you hold in such high regard, and place so much faith in.

Allow me to explain.

In part 1 of your documentary, “Enemies of reason”, you classify astrology as a, “ primitive belief system, made into elaborate pseudo-science”, (which is being kind to astrology). As a comparison to astrology, you express: “astronomy is a real science”. But then, in qualifying what astronomy represents, you suggest to anyone gazing at the stars: “you’re staring into a deep time machine.”

Well then, allow me to enquire of you, when was the last occasion that you had personally experienced physical ‘time’? Or when you had personally seen physical ‘time’? Or felt it, or tasted it, or whatever?

Never. You’ve never, ever, had any physical experience or witness of ‘time’, just as theists had never, ever, physically experienced or witnessed their god: be it Chinese god, or Jewish god, or Christian god, or Moslem god.

If I may be so bold, I deduce you came to know the concept of ‘time’ through your elders, be they your parents or school educators, who also had never physically experienced physical ‘time’. But with the ongoing process of physical change, which, seemingly, constantly produces an ongoing process of decay, aging, and dispersal, it is hardly surprising that humans – from long ago – had surmised that this state of change is caused by a singular entity of ‘time’. So as a child you were taught to accept the existence of ‘time’, and together with other humans, you had accepted the existence of ‘time’, taking it for granted to be a physical fact, never questioning the validity of this assertion, or seeking to check this notion for yourself.

As you grew and mentally developed, you may have come across confirmations of ‘time’s’ existence, both in religion and science: with neither of these human activities providing any concrete physical proof to the existence of ‘time’.

In religions, for instance, you may have come across teachings that presume ‘time’ to be an ongoing process, within which messiah emerges at a particular juncture in ‘time’, and that an antichrist will come, heralding the end of ‘time’.

In sciences, you would have learned that ‘time’ supposedly began with the “Big Bang”, and that ‘time’ supposedly slows down with an increase in speed of an object, or body. You would have been convinced of ‘time’s’ existence from conducted lame experiments, where an object with an established rate of decay had supposedly slowed that rate when sent into a speeding circuit.

Unfortunately for science and religions, ‘time’ – just like god – does not physically exist.

What does physically exists – which is mistaken for ‘time’ by all current humans – is a physical process of change; where physical change occurs from intentional and unintentional physical contacts occurring between physical objects and bodies – and all that they are all physically made of – and not some magical entity, called: ‘time’.

Even when astronomers mistakenly consider that they are ‘seeing’ in the present the past in space, what they – as all else – see, is that which occurs in vacuum space in the present, even when that present is the consequence of the past physical occurrence – with those past occurrences always having been those of the present moment. Therefore, ‘time’ has nothing to do with physical functions of physical objects or bodies in space, including vacuum space. This means that a rate of decay is influenced not by ‘time’ but by a physical process of change, which, depending on causes that produce the rate of physical process of change of decay – or dispersal – of an object, can cause a physical change to the rate of decay – or dispersal – of the same object, if that rate of physical change is physically influenced to experience physical change.

To give a simplistic explanation to what is inferred: were ‘time’ to physically exist, then that ‘time’ would need to physically influence simultaneously, and at the same rate of speed, two similar objects, or bodies, located few centimetres from each other, despite the possibility of the two being separated by different physical environments. This would mean that if two successive leaves, obtained from the same branch of a tree, were separated: where one leaf was placed into confines of a functioning refrigerating freezer – that whole appliance exposed to the sun – while the other leaf was placed on top of that refrigerating appliance, and therefore, itself being exposed to the sun, then, according to current human perception of ‘time’, these two leaves would need to decay at the same rate, as they would be sharing the same region of ‘time’. But because ‘time’ does not exist, the physical result of such experiment would be that the leaf on top of a refrigerating unit, exposed to the sun and the elements, shall deteriorate, dry out, and disintegrate months – if not years – before the leaf located within the refrigerating freezer has experienced any physical deterioration.

So what’s the significance, someone could ask, of whether ‘time’ exists or does not exist? The main significance is the physical truth. Just as with notions of gods, the notion of ‘time’ furnishes humans with delusions of being able to achieve physically impossible feats: delusions of being able to manipulate ‘time’ for selfish purposes, such as travelling in ‘time’ or through ‘time’; delusions of managing the processes of aging; delusions in controlling the future events, by means of being able to forecast them (and therefore, being able to alter them) by means of astrology, or any other fraudulent methods devised for fooling the gullible; delusions that ‘time’ changes according to the speed of an object. All these delusions exist simply because according to human imaginations all is supposedly possible within the entity of ‘time’: just invent notions, such as those of messiahs, and they can come true in the entity of ‘time’.

As you well know (as first openly expressed by Jesuits), a child can be taught whatever a teacher wishes that child to believe, and, in most cases, does so for the rest of his or her life; in the process passing on the same belief to the new generations of children. That is how knowledge – as well as fabrications – are passed on. It, therefore, should not at all be surprising that this applies as much to those being taught the falsehood of ‘time’ in current science, as it does to those being taught religions. While religions teach their fantasies, so do sciences.

Of course, right now, you may well be presuming that what I had just revealed to you is nothing but madness. For has not ‘time’ been known of from the earliest human origins? Surely the writer is wrong, for has not Hawking written a “Short history of time?” ‘Time’ has always been a basic element of science.

So there you have it, Mr Dawkins, a strange experience of being told that that which you hold dear to your knowledge, and which is supposedly part of your everyday life, is in fact nothing but your delusion. For “time’ is, undoubtedly, the greatest of human delusions, for even those who embrace logic and reasoning – those like yourself – have been fooled into believing the existence of that which does not only does not exist, but cannot exist. That is correct: ‘time’ cannot exist, because all that which physically exists and physically forms (and disperses) all that physically exists, as a physical process of change has no need of either gods or ‘time’.

All this is explained in my book, “Revelations of a human space navigator’. Apart from the non-existence of ‘time’, the book explains other current scientific delusions, as well as explaining exactly what all that is physical is physically made of, and why it all physically functions as it does, including gravity.

Furthermore, the book also reveals exactly who and what humans are. This means that there are explanations of exactly why humans behave as they do. Why they practice humanity and inhumanity on each other. Why they disregard all that surrounds them in favour of their self-interests. Why they are busily developing means by which to accelerate the demise of their own species on this planet. Why even you, yourself, function the way you do: trying to provide illumination of rational and logic for humanity, but doing so while not even knowing exactly who and what you are as a human, and incapable of seeing the delusions that you mistake for science.

Of course, you can dismiss my claims, as those of a ‘self-deluded fool’. But then I would ask you, just how the scholarly luminaries feted and celebrated the book published by Copernicus, in which he supports the ideas of Ptolemy, and reveals the delusions of his day? He was not feted or celebrated, but ridiculed. And who turned out to be right? Not the scholarly luminaries of his day. The same applies to Galileo, and so on.

That’s because humans are comfortable with their ignorance, and despite living as physical change within physical change, they dislike change, preferring, instead, to maintain their delusions for as long as they can. And for all your zeal to disclose to humans their religious delusions, you may well choose to retain your scientific ones. 

Nevertheless, I would like to invite you to read my book, if for no other reason than to rebut the knowledge I reveal. If you would provide me with a street mailing address to which I can send a complimentary copy of the book, I shall be pleased to do so.

This information can be emailed to: (the address information is withheld for obvious reason).

Alternatively, you may care to visit a site dedicated to the book at: http://www.victorsenchenko.com
to learn more about its contents. 

At the conclusion of your documentary you state: “sceptical enquiry is always the best approach…we can think independently and be truly open minded. That means asking questions, being open to real corroborated evidence. Reason has liberated us from superstition and has given us centuries of progress. We abandon it at our peril.”

I do not agree totally with your sentiment, knowing full well exactly what the “centuries of progress’ has meant for all other life forms on this planet: life forms that have no way of avoiding the ravages of ‘human progress’, and who shall suffer for human disregard and greed.

But I do agree with all other that you say. Still, a question remains: do you? Do you mean what you say, when you state: “we can think independently and be truly open minded”? For if you do, then give yourself an opportunity to question your own delusions, by reading of the book, and only then form an informed opinion regarding the non-existence of ‘time’.

Yours sincerely,
Victor Senchenko