Existence of God

Challenging the idea that a Deistic God created the universe and set it in motion and then keeps aloof. In other words, according to him we believe in an absentee God who seems to be indifferent to what is happening in the world. But if He in fact does create individual souls 'off and on', then he should face the problem of evil that exists in the created universe in the form of sorrows and sufferings, injustice, exploitation, birth-based deformities. Why should there be any birth-based differences that make some more privileged than others?

Besides, aggressive atheists who deny the existence of God do so because believers have been committing horrible acts of omission and commission in the name of religious creeds and God. Despite this, it is said that the so-called all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing God remains silent. Therefore, God's silence is equated with God's non-existence by materialists and atheists.

However, the wonderful structure of the universe and of the things and beings in the universe does seem to suggest the existence of a Grand Design, which needs explanation. Can it be due to matter and motion? Though human reason is capable of understanding a lot, it points to the existence of Universal Consciousness or Cosmic Intelligence. This, say naysayers, is more faith than fact.

The theistic world view gives cosmic support to believers. After all, the question of all questions is whether the universe is friendly or inimical to life in general and human life in particular. Long before the 'Sun' in the solar system was seen as the friend of humans. So the believer bowed before the Sun and said, "Aum Mitrya Namah" - O Lord, i bow to you, our friend. Darwin's theory of biological evolution is a grand hypothesis to explain the origin of species on this planet. He never claimed that he could explain the 'arrival of life to evolve in favour of the fittest' in the world. How did the rudimentary amoebas evolve; out of nothing?

Biologists aver the principle 'life begets life'. Can they reduce biology to physics? Can they accept biology as a branch of physics? The usual answer to this is 'no'. Moreover, physics itself is becoming a science of the minute following the discovery that atoms can be split! The concept of God is not a stupid idea. It cannot be done away with so cursorily. It was the agnostic H Spencer who applied the concept of evolution to the evolution of the cosmos. Later, philosophers formulated different ideas of evolution, as did S Alexander in the idea of Emergent Evolution, H Bergson in the concept of Creative Evolution.

The tiny logic and intellect of man should not be elevated to the status of God or the Cosmic Intelligence; its role in human affairs ought not to be dismissed or under-estimated. Such a stand has its own limitations.

German philosopher Kant refuted the traditional rational argument in support of belief in God. Yet he formulated the Moral Argument. For belief in the existence of God and morality are special to human beings. Unless we accept the moral in the universe it is very difficult to make the universe morally intelligible. The discussion cannot be left in the hands of priests and pundits. Education in humanities will help believers liberate religion from the clutches of the priestly class. For aren't modern liberation theologians willing to learn from Karl Marx to solve the issue of hunger and injustice?

Consider the Sun. He is called Adithya, etc. Without him nothing can exist or happen! Think, don't be impatient to answer this question brusquely. Rains come, wind blows, sun rays and heat manifest and the whole world exists and is sustained. The sun is the inevitable enabler, the ground, the stage or the platform for all these. What made this Sun (with all his atoms, plasma, electrons energy etc.) do all this or capable of all this? You go one step backwards. What principle enabled this Sun manifest all this? Can you deny the existence of this enabler, more powerful and comprehensive and subtler than the Sun? Possibly, you may not! This most powerful, the most comprehensive, the subtlest ground is referred to as God(if you are not allergic to this traditional term). Having found a certain widespread inability to understand this reasoning and a certain failure to muster the ability to think about these essentially intangible matters, savants have called it ineffable, subtler than the subtlest, larger than the largest, the nearest yet the farthest etc. In brief, all knowledge(the light or ground for all the so called knower-known-knowledge forms of propositions), all existence including mental happenings like sorrow, happiness, love, hatred, jealosy etc. are due to that principle: the a priori principle to use a terminology from Immanuel Kant. And of course, to deny God, there should exist the denier, the core or essence of this denier principle, the more popular self itself is God according to Vedantins.

 Education in humanities will help believers liberate religion from the clutches of the priestly class. Actually God can be understandable withe help of science for todays generation. All the answers of the writer's questions are given in Adwait philosophy of school of thoughts of Hinduisem. Upnishad are really a very practical and scientific source for all dificult quries What we learn in physics and biology It is already well explained in Upnishad but to understand the correct meaning we have to prey for wisdom from our creator. In bhagwad Gita it is clearly mentioned that every person need different path (Yog) in order to achieve the answers of above questions(salvation) according to his nature like Bhakti yog is suitable for Imotional persons Gyanyog is suitable for scientific people and slowly slowly they come to the same conclusions. After gaining Gyaan ie true knowledge one can free from all feras and sorrows of the world because then he know that whoem he searching outside is present very near or nsay nearest to him only. All the superstitions become clean on that time.

Provided we accept the evolutionary theory completely it is quite possible to include physics as the source of biology but that requires to be understood as a separate subject for in depth study and management of the living system.. Taking the example of origin of life explained in the religious scriptures, all converge to the point of single couple like Adam and Eva, Manu and Satarupa, for further clasification, take example of family of the Chitragupta in hindu mythology when all are taken as descendant of the same couple and asked to live as belonging to a most common ancestors so all are alike and s'd be entitled to wellbeing level and taken as similarly competent to have opportunities in life. But a deviation from this outcome can lead to atheist view of life comfortably so the reasons cited to go for an atheist theory is most natural and a conscious mind can not be made simply to believe the theist philosophy so much lie on our understanding and approach. There are certain ideas and philosophy which professes to a degree the existence of occult sciences yet it is said those who believe in soul no proof is necessary and those who do not believe in soul no proof is enough. In our society when many of the high and mighty abide by the theist philosophy it may required not to deny it outright as a conscious body for a justice system may serve the system of the world provided we do accept the essential theories of all religion which states a work based cycle system to get evolved spiritually and help maintain the viability of the world system as well. As a naive in medical profession w;d depend on so many tests to conclude about the exact condition of a patient and a master of the field w'd get some idea at once subject to be put to furthers tests, so are the theories of the philosophy homeopathy for healing which aim to clear the cause than the disease itself which might reoccur otherwise, so are the people who depending on their inherent consciousness level can be able to judge themselves about certain mysteries and the prevailing injustice on the name of the God and that has led to few of religious ideas developed with time, in this way the universe can neither be taken as inimical or supportive to the life over earth and much depends on the human being to let life perpetuate in a sustainable manner and allow humanity reveal for ever.