Does God Exist?
DocBrain has been mulling this one over for a while and now has an answer.
The atheist answer is the null hypothesis: if you cannot prove God's existence, then God does not exist. The believer's answer is yes, God exists. The glib answer is that if you believe in God, then God exists.
Here is a rational answer. Nothing really exists as it seems to be. Light, whether particles or waves, carries information to us that reveals the appearance of things as they truly are not. The computer keyboard is not solid, but relatively less void than the air around it, yet it feels solid under my fingers. If we could experience the universe as it really is, it would be indeed a strange place. Instead, we see beauty, taste marvelous things, smell aromas that entice the soul, and hear the echoes of nature and man. None of this is necessary, but it sure can make life more pleasant.
Our minds are housed in a brain which contains billions of cells and trillions of synapses.
At what point does our mind disappear? Our brain assimilates information giving us the knowledge we need to survive in the world. We struggle with our inborn impulses, factual knowledge and learned desires. Many of us try to leave our mark, to try to do something that shows the future that "Kilroy was here".
Losses occur for no reason and in no particular pattern. People known for their good and evil both die. We see no overarching justice or mercy. In an attempt to give our lives meaning, some desperately point to the afterlife where some measure of reward for good behavior and punishment for bad behavior is meted out. Yet, everywhere we see people trying to be another brick in the wall of history, growth, and evolution in the arts and sciences, industry and society, that makes up human existence. This occurs not out of habit or religious zeal, but mainly from a spirit of curiousity, a desire to see what lies ahead and beyond, to take it to the next level. This is what drives us and what ultimately proves the existence of a God. We are aware of our own mortality in a way that is unique among animals. Being able to use words to verbalize it creates the fears and drives that moves us forward and swallows some of us.
We will never know God as God really is. We will use our creativity and industriousness to reach and reach until our waves and particles become one with the universal time and space continuum, reaching forward and backward for the hands that put us here. We are the way that God makes matter and energy one with purpose. Our existences ripple like waves on the surface of time, never totally fading away, but harder and harder to see.
The atheist answer is the null hypothesis: if you cannot prove God's existence, then God does not exist. The believer's answer is yes, God exists. The glib answer is that if you believe in God, then God exists.
Here is a rational answer. Nothing really exists as it seems to be. Light, whether particles or waves, carries information to us that reveals the appearance of things as they truly are not. The computer keyboard is not solid, but relatively less void than the air around it, yet it feels solid under my fingers. If we could experience the universe as it really is, it would be indeed a strange place. Instead, we see beauty, taste marvelous things, smell aromas that entice the soul, and hear the echoes of nature and man. None of this is necessary, but it sure can make life more pleasant.
Our minds are housed in a brain which contains billions of cells and trillions of synapses.
At what point does our mind disappear? Our brain assimilates information giving us the knowledge we need to survive in the world. We struggle with our inborn impulses, factual knowledge and learned desires. Many of us try to leave our mark, to try to do something that shows the future that "Kilroy was here".
Losses occur for no reason and in no particular pattern. People known for their good and evil both die. We see no overarching justice or mercy. In an attempt to give our lives meaning, some desperately point to the afterlife where some measure of reward for good behavior and punishment for bad behavior is meted out. Yet, everywhere we see people trying to be another brick in the wall of history, growth, and evolution in the arts and sciences, industry and society, that makes up human existence. This occurs not out of habit or religious zeal, but mainly from a spirit of curiousity, a desire to see what lies ahead and beyond, to take it to the next level. This is what drives us and what ultimately proves the existence of a God. We are aware of our own mortality in a way that is unique among animals. Being able to use words to verbalize it creates the fears and drives that moves us forward and swallows some of us.
We will never know God as God really is. We will use our creativity and industriousness to reach and reach until our waves and particles become one with the universal time and space continuum, reaching forward and backward for the hands that put us here. We are the way that God makes matter and energy one with purpose. Our existences ripple like waves on the surface of time, never totally fading away, but harder and harder to see.
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