SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

other option is available. An example of compulsive logic is that of acknowledging the identity of one’s mother. Everyone believes one particular woman to be his mother. Despite not having seen himself being born, he is compelled to accept this as a fact, and clings to it as a matter of conviction. His belief results from compulsive logic. He maintains this belief because, in this matter, his position is that he has no other option but to accept one particular woman as his mother. Belief in the existence of God pertains to this same kind of compulsive logic. On the question of God’s existence, the actual point is that we have no option in this matter. We are compelled to believe in the existence of God. For if we did not believe in the existence of God, we would have to negate the existence of not only the universe but also our own existence. Since we can negate the existence neither of the universe nor our own, we cannot logically deny the existence of God. Man’s Existence is the Proof of God’s Existence In the vastness of the universe, it is man alone who denies the existence of God, in spite of the fact that man’s own existence is the greatest proof of God’s existence. If a being like man exists, then a being like God, too, certainly exists. All the qualities which we envisage existing in God in a perfect form, exist in man in an imperfect form. If an imperfect being exists, a perfect being can certainly exist. Believing in one and denying the other is such a contradiction in logic that no one endowed with any reason can afford it. Rene Descartes, the famous French philosopher, (1596-1650) was also faced with the question: ‘If man exists, what is the rational proof of his existence?’ After long reflection, he gave this answer: ‘I think, therefore I exist.’ The answer he gave is entirely sound in terms of logic. But this logic, which proves the existence of man, proves something far greater, and that is, rational proof of the existence of God. In the light of this logical principle, we would be right in saying: ‘Thinking exists, therefore God exists.’ Those who deny God, deny Him because He appears to them as abstract and therefore incomprehensible. They find it difficult to believe in something which has no material existence. But human beings are thinking creatures. Everyone believes in the existence of the faculty of