Existence of God
Today's humanistic society is an example of arrogance at its worst.
Atheists and Agnostics point to science and technology as the solution to the world's woes. They wait
for cures to disease, war and poverty. Some solutions come...but they are replaced by even more
disease, war and poverty. They continue to wait for men's minds to serve up solutions that will never
come.
Intellectual elites place themselves in the position of God...living lives serving themselves or striving
for material goods and ultimately end up empty and unsatisfied. They trust in their intellect and instincts
rather than seeking true wisdom. Some even create their own religions...taking bits and pieces of
philosophy from Hindu, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and mixing them into something
comfortable; a religion is designed which insures that its practice requires absolutely no change in
ones view of himself, his neighbors, or his responsibilities to others.
Why is it so difficult for many to accept the existence of God? I believe that since we are terrestrial
creatures, things that we can see or touch are easier to trust...and the invisible things are doubted. If
the Theory of Relativity is to believed, however, we should agree that one's perspective can change
according to his environment...even time and space come into question when the speed hurtling
through the Cosmos approaches the speed of light. Can our senses really be trusted?
The father of modern philosophy, Renee' Descartes, believed that Man cannot really create anything
new...he merely combines his observations of nature into new combinations. Therefore, Man cannot
conceive of God if he does not have prior experience of Him.
Anything on Earth, unless it is constantly maintained, deteriorates into dust. Compounds break down
into simpler molecules. Steel rusts...concrete crumbles...mountains erode...all living things deteriorate
and die. Werner Von Braun, America's foremost NASA scientist in the Apollo program, once
commented that to deny the existence of God in the creation of life was folly. The assumption that life
and the universe formed on their own is like assuming that a box of watch parts, when shaken, will
combine to become a fine timepiece.
What is the origin of physical laws? Laws indicate order and sequences...laws are created by
intelligence rather than chance. Even the basic building block of the universe, the atom, operates by
complex rules that cannot have been created by chance, but by extreme intelligence.
Don't be duped by science; it is simply a method which is used to try to understand the laws of the
Universe...science is a tool- not a replacement for God.
Think about it.
Doug Ritterling, Flat Earth Guitars
Rusty Lay e-mailed Flat Earth Guitars his comments:
In Fact, many of the scientists say that it is by the random chance that they can ignore/ or use the
entropy argument to their advantage: That the randomness, entropy, continues to take place until it
offers the opportunity for some life form to benefit from it, and therefore hold on to/ pass along
the random mutation. It's the randomness itself that allows the complicated, not designed, life forms,
humans for example, to exist. We can only say we are complicated to the benefit of survival, but we
really can't say we are truly special.
It's funny however, we all want to be special, have a purpose, a reason for being here. If we are, in
fact, existing just by random chance, what's the purpose of a scientist searching or arguing their point
anyway... it doesn't matter, knowledge doesn't matter, it may feel important but it can't matter. If we are
just complicated, why do we want to feel special, purposeful etc... Could it be because we are? I
would venture to say that most people would agree, regardless of their belief system or intentional or
"lack thereof" , that we have a reason for being here. I would also venture to say that everyone, yes
everyone, feels like they do have a purpose, even if they ignore it. There is a reason we feel this
need for purpose.
I find it much harder to believe that a psychological, emotional (non-physical therefore non definitive)
mutation to have taken place at some point in time to aid in our survival, especially when that very
question itself asks why should I go on living. The need for an answer has caused so many who have
tried (and failed) to answer that very question, to question and even take their own lives. How can we
not have a purpose? Just simply thinking we should and even, I used the word need again, need a
purpose should tell all that we do have a purpose, a purpose that cannot have been given to us by a
random (by chance, not purposed) universe.
Similarly, but on the subject of human desires, C.S. Lewis writes... "doesn't it seem that since we
have desires that aren't being satisfied by anything here on earth,that we are not meant for this earth.
This earth and it's inability to truly satisfy the human, also seems strange if we are indeed a product
(genetically speaking) of our environment, from which we survive and grow by random mutation."
Editor's note:
Early in his writing career, C.S. Lewis did research for a book he was writing in an attempt to debunk
Christianity. His studies into the Bible and the life of Christ took an unexpected turn: it fundamentally
changed his soul- C.S. Lewis became a prolific writer of Christian themes. One of his books in the
Narnia series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," has been made into a major motion picture
which is soon to be released in theatres. The later years of his life was featured in the film
"Shadowlands."
Today's humanistic society is an example of arrogance at its worst.
Atheists and Agnostics point to science and technology as the solution to the world's woes. They wait
for cures to disease, war and poverty. Some solutions come...but they are replaced by even more
disease, war and poverty. They continue to wait for men's minds to serve up solutions that will never
come.
Intellectual elites place themselves in the position of God...living lives serving themselves or striving
for material goods and ultimately end up empty and unsatisfied. They trust in their intellect and instincts
rather than seeking true wisdom. Some even create their own religions...taking bits and pieces of
philosophy from Hindu, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and mixing them into something
comfortable; a religion is designed which insures that its practice requires absolutely no change in
ones view of himself, his neighbors, or his responsibilities to others.
Why is it so difficult for many to accept the existence of God? I believe that since we are terrestrial
creatures, things that we can see or touch are easier to trust...and the invisible things are doubted. If
the Theory of Relativity is to believed, however, we should agree that one's perspective can change
according to his environment...even time and space come into question when the speed hurtling
through the Cosmos approaches the speed of light. Can our senses really be trusted?
The father of modern philosophy, Renee' Descartes, believed that Man cannot really create anything
new...he merely combines his observations of nature into new combinations. Therefore, Man cannot
conceive of God if he does not have prior experience of Him.
Anything on Earth, unless it is constantly maintained, deteriorates into dust. Compounds break down
into simpler molecules. Steel rusts...concrete crumbles...mountains erode...all living things deteriorate
and die. Werner Von Braun, America's foremost NASA scientist in the Apollo program, once
commented that to deny the existence of God in the creation of life was folly. The assumption that life
and the universe formed on their own is like assuming that a box of watch parts, when shaken, will
combine to become a fine timepiece.
What is the origin of physical laws? Laws indicate order and sequences...laws are created by
intelligence rather than chance. Even the basic building block of the universe, the atom, operates by
complex rules that cannot have been created by chance, but by extreme intelligence.
Don't be duped by science; it is simply a method which is used to try to understand the laws of the
Universe...science is a tool- not a replacement for God.
Think about it.
Doug Ritterling, Flat Earth Guitars
Rusty Lay e-mailed Flat Earth Guitars his comments:
In Fact, many of the scientists say that it is by the random chance that they can ignore/ or use the
entropy argument to their advantage: That the randomness, entropy, continues to take place until it
offers the opportunity for some life form to benefit from it, and therefore hold on to/ pass along
the random mutation. It's the randomness itself that allows the complicated, not designed, life forms,
humans for example, to exist. We can only say we are complicated to the benefit of survival, but we
really can't say we are truly special.
It's funny however, we all want to be special, have a purpose, a reason for being here. If we are, in
fact, existing just by random chance, what's the purpose of a scientist searching or arguing their point
anyway... it doesn't matter, knowledge doesn't matter, it may feel important but it can't matter. If we are
just complicated, why do we want to feel special, purposeful etc... Could it be because we are? I
would venture to say that most people would agree, regardless of their belief system or intentional or
"lack thereof" , that we have a reason for being here. I would also venture to say that everyone, yes
everyone, feels like they do have a purpose, even if they ignore it. There is a reason we feel this
need for purpose.
I find it much harder to believe that a psychological, emotional (non-physical therefore non definitive)
mutation to have taken place at some point in time to aid in our survival, especially when that very
question itself asks why should I go on living. The need for an answer has caused so many who have
tried (and failed) to answer that very question, to question and even take their own lives. How can we
not have a purpose? Just simply thinking we should and even, I used the word need again, need a
purpose should tell all that we do have a purpose, a purpose that cannot have been given to us by a
random (by chance, not purposed) universe.
Similarly, but on the subject of human desires, C.S. Lewis writes... "doesn't it seem that since we
have desires that aren't being satisfied by anything here on earth,that we are not meant for this earth.
This earth and it's inability to truly satisfy the human, also seems strange if we are indeed a product
(genetically speaking) of our environment, from which we survive and grow by random mutation."
Editor's note:
Early in his writing career, C.S. Lewis did research for a book he was writing in an attempt to debunk
Christianity. His studies into the Bible and the life of Christ took an unexpected turn: it fundamentally
changed his soul- C.S. Lewis became a prolific writer of Christian themes. One of his books in the
Narnia series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," has been made into a major motion picture
which is soon to be released in theatres. The later years of his life was featured in the film
"Shadowlands."
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