God: Will He Vanish in a *Poof* of Science?
The author has a number of different essays that look interesting: Does God Exist?
The purpose of this brief study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
This short essay is… interesting. Since I already believe that God exists, and that we are created beings, this essay had more interest to me in the scientific aspect.
My feeling is that God’s existence cannot be proved or disproved scientifically. You may be able to make a convincing argument one way or the other by using scientific data, theorems, and equations, but ultimately it is a futile exercise.
If God exists as the Christians believe Him to, as a supreme being, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, then the ultimate answer is always something like…
God is beyond our ability to quantify or detect… and even though He has the ability to allow us to detect Him, He, in His infinite wisdom, doesn’t permit it since we would be incapable of dealing.
Faith is believing something without having the concrete, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt, proof. When you have that “gut†instinct that tells you something is so… that’s faith. That said, trying to quantify God’s existence can be an interesting exercise… as long as you’re not looking for it to be the answer.
When I look at nature and its complexity, I see God’s work. And it makes me smile, and gladdens my heart. But I can also understand the flip side of that coin… that this world is an end result of a series of random interactions (which induces no smile or gladness for me). We are all looking at the same available “data†but arriving at different conclusions. God is very unscientific that way [grin].
So… what do you think? Can God’s existence be ultimately proved or disproved through science? If so, how?