Do God Exist ?

I always remember this high school physics thought experiment. Imagine a dog who only lives in a two dimensional world , that is he cannot perceive the third dimension. What happens to him when someone drops a bone from the top of his head , the third dimension. ? He sees the bone as it lands in his world of the two dimensions, but he is unable to comprehend from where the bone came from. This is because he has no idea of the existence of another dimension , the third dimension.

In human life , in our society many things happen for which we do not have a rational explanation, so we attribute them either to luck or to some external force ( like GOD).  Thus is an existence of something beyond us which we cannot control, do not know how it operates but do exists. Over time , as our mankind’s collective wisdom increase we can explain one phenomenon but still others exists which we cannot rationalize. In ancient times we did not know water cycle and rain, so Rain god existed but today we can create artificial rain ourselves so the necessity of Rain God reduced.

Will it be ever possible to explain why something happen and something do not ? Why there is stock market crash? Why a particular individual won a lottery? And so on. We still do not understand gravitational force and just became aware of a new matter called dark matter. It is for this, and these entire unexplainable phenomenon’s God exists.

 God also exist because hope exists. Hope is the elixir of life without it no life can exist. The idea of procreation is a simple but a fundamental manifestation of hope in life. It exists as the only reason to live in an extreme scenario when one is powerless against a much superior force. Imagine a feudal lord raping your wife and daughter, castrating your son and making you work to death. It is only in the belief in hope that someday (depending whatever your religion is) God will punish the perpetrator or you will reborn again for your redemption against the lord, that you will live. Why will somebody dig his own grave at gunpoint then shot and buried in it, without an iota of hope?

The argument whether God exists or do not exist doesn’t matter. It always exists, because it is antithesis of human fragility.  Whatever we cannot do, wish to do or hope to do can be done by omnipotent God, thus it is real and subsists in our mind and continues to live and grow in our common human consciousness. Like the concept of infinity, God exists without any bounds, endless but very natural.

Is there a reality which exists beyond us or is it that we just create a new realities with our thought, as our brain evolves? Is there a truth, one universal truth for everything and that is God ? Can we rationalize that if there exists one universal truth then there will one universal law which will lead to that truth? These and other similar questions can lead us to hundreds of arguments and thousands of pages of intellectual thesis. The very fact that we are thinking all these, says that we are alive, and yes, we hope to answer them one day and create new ones, like God.

God exists because we exists, it is like the ability to breathe as soon as we are born , so do the idea of God takes form in our mind. Like the concept of unidirectional flow of time that naturally occurs to us, so is God effortlessly building in us with the notion of hope. It is a necessity, part of our existence in our world , it is what we are and for that reason only, logical analysis for the existence God is ridden with sometimes contradictory, incomprehensible fallacies. It exists because the concept of ‘belief/faith’ lives as an evidence of our senses to be meaningful. We believe in God , not consciously but subconsciously like our breath, we cannot do otherwise.

The idea of God as an absolute truth is incorrect. It is not , God is just a natural phenomenon , a concept of feeling, like love, hope, despair, pain  existing in every human mind. Everybody is born with it. In this way God has no conflict with the natural sciences or to say evolution. While we tend to expand God to explain everything , including evolution, which as a scientific endeavor do give rational explanation of  many phenomenon and thus the idea of  ‘belief’ along with God can step back and let the concepts thrive. We need to remember that in science the hypothesis are approximation can only be made more plausible but cannot be proven to be true. A good hypothesis can be readily proven false.

That which cannot be explained rationally is accepted as belief attributed to God. It can either be a manifestation of God as classical Vedic thought might lead to us belief or some action of God which the religions from the Middle East (Christianity, Islam et all) might lead us to think.