Truth Out Loud

As I see it there are 3 basic reasons people have trouble accepting the existence of God.

1) He cannot be proven to exist by current accepted scientific practices.
2) He sounds too much like believing in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and people do not want to look foolish.
3) People would have to accept the idea that there is a higher truth beyond their own desires.

Oddly, only one of these is rooted in logic. The others and many like them are rooted in ego. As such, I will only deal with the first as any other reason is not logic based; seeing as how this is to be a dispassionate logical discussion on the existence of god. I can give two major arguments for the existence of God. One is the “life is pointless otherwise” argument, the other is the “man-made” argument.

Many people will tell you that the existence of God cannot be proven and that he can only be believed thru faith. This is partly true but not entirely. The existence of God can be demonstrated thru logic. I see the problem as “not being able to see the forest because of the trees”. Man is an odd creature because we can label infinite concepts (love, hope & hate), live our lives by them and then deny they exist. What do I mean by this?

Well let’s examine love. Next time you are talking to your wife, son, daughter or other family member say “Did you know that chemical and electrical impulses in my mind have created a physical channel in my brain tied to my glands in a way that causes a positive physical reinforcement cycle in my body as I maintain proximity with you?” I am sure the chemical and electrical process in their brain will reciprocate. I realize this seems absurd but if we are to believe God does not exist then this is exactly what is going on.

If we are to believe that God does not exist. We must then accept that love, hate, compassion, hope, good and evil are meaningless linguistic constructs for unimportant chemical and electrical processes. Existence viewed this way makes everything we hold dear as real as Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.

Well, I have given a good reason we hope God exists, but what about an argument that he does exist? This one is actually quite easy. Step outside one day and look around you. Look at various objects trees, birds, houses, cars, etc… these are easily identifiable as either natural or man made. How do know? For instance, I obviously don’t know that my house was built by a man because I saw him and I saw him build it. My house was built before I even lived here. I know because I recognize the construction and its order as man made.

Well Gods existence is just as easy to spot but acceptance is usually blocked by ego. The universe around us is bursting with order. Trees have a top and bottom. Fish have a front and back. We have laws describing the properties of things and how they interact. This order goes from the galactic to planetary to molecular to atomic level. God’s hand is as easily seen in a newborn child as a man’s hand is seen in the construction of the crib.

But sadly many cannot see the forest because of the trees.

That all said; existence without God would not be much of an existence.