Does God Exist?
The question of a higher power has been one that humankind has been trying to answer for ages. Is the universe a collection of random products of other random events? Or is there order and structure to it, suggesting a created universe? Many academics and laypersons have tried to prove the existence of a God one way or another. The problem with trying to prove there is a God, is that if a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. I argue that God does exist and that there is proof, if not scientific, that He does. My first supporting argument for this fact is that throughout history, in all cultures of the world, people have been convinced that there is a God. Whether that God has taken the form of Buddha, Allah or any other name, it is still inherently the same concept. That we are created by something bigger than all of us. Has this been some sort of mass hysteria? I think not. How is it possible that billions of people all over the world, through past and present have believed in essentially the same thing without scientific facts that it exists? Billions of people, who represent diverse sociological, intellectual, emotional, educational mak
Once again the idea chance comes into the picture. A valid second argument for the existence of God, is that mere chance is not a valid explanation for the creation of the universe and its inhabitants. Sir Frederick Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, compared the absurdity of believing that life could result from time, chance, and properties in matter with believing that "a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein."1 Even scientific findings cannot disprove the existence of a higher being. Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA discovery, himself said "The origin of life appears to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have to be satisfied to get it going." Even hardcore scientists recognize that the odds are billions to one that we are all here because of colliding atoms. eups all came to the same conclusion that there is a Creator. "Anthropological research has indicated that among the farthest and most remote primitive people today, there is a universal belief in God. And in the earliest histories and legends of people all around the world, the original concept was of one God, who was the Creator. An original high God seems once to have been in their consciousness even in those societies which are today polytheistic."1. Another reason to believe that there is a God is that humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained. Whithin each and everyone of us there is a little voice that tells us the difference between right and wrong. Guilt, shameare some of the byproducts of our conscience when we do something wrong. There arises in all of us, of any culture, universal feelings of right and wrong. And in areas like courage, dying for a cause, love, dignity, duty and compassion, where did these come from? If people are merely products of physical evolution, "survival of the fittest," why do we sacrifice for each other? Where did we get this inner sense of right and wrong? Our c
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