SPEAKING OF GOD TODAY

“If God created the universe, who created God?” But questions such as these have now become meaningless, because they are irrelevant. In view of the new scientific findings it has become possible for us to assert that, in this world, the option is not between the universe with God and the universe without God. The real option is between the universe with God, and no universe at all. As we cannot refute the existence of the universe, we cannot refute the existence of God as well. It has to be conceded that the concept of God is linked with the universe exactly as the concept of an engineer is linked with the concept of a great machine. If we believe in the existence of the machine, we shall inevitably have to believe in the engineer who created it. Exactly the same applies in the metaphysical sense, to God and the universe. God is a reality, albeit invisible. He does not come under our direct observation and experience. Hence His existence can be proved only by inferential or indirect argument. For direct argument in this case is not possible. In ancient times it was held that the subject of God was a matter of dogma, pertaining only to accepted creeds. Therefore it was a topic neither for academic debate nor for logical, scientific analysis. In modern times, however, the situation has totally changed. Scientific discoveries have shown that the atom is not a material entity at all but as waves of electrons, waves which were invisible. We could not observe the electrons themselves, but only their indirect effects. Advances in human knowledge of the material world brought about a number of changes, one of these being a revision of the principles of the science of logic. In the age of Newton, only direct argument was held to be valid in logic. But in the new age ushered in by Einstein, it came to be established that indirect argument or inferential argument was logically as acceptable as direct argument. The objections raised by atheists to the holding of religious beliefs seemed to carry any weight only so long as human knowledge was confined to the level of the macro-world. But when human knowledge, making a great leap forward, made its entry into the micro-world, atheistic suppositions were totally demolished. It was because, unlike the macro-world, the micro-world was quite unobservable. Now a whole The world discovered by science is so unique that it cannot be explained without the acceptance of God.