The existence - or lack of - a God is one of humanity's fundamental questions. Since the first birth, the first sunrise, the first death, humans have sought to explain the world around them. The whole of human existence, in the end, comes down to this: Is there a God?
It was Rabbi Irving Greenberg who once wrote that it is important to distinguish between belief and knowledge. What one believes, one cannot know. What one knows, one cannot believe. To believe something means that its perceived veracity depends upon the subjective loyalty of the believer, based upon reason, personal, expeience, or some other compelling catalyst to such faith; to know something depends upon its being provable as fact.
In truth, then, the worst thing that could happen to the faithful person would be the discovery of a means to prove that there is indeed a God, for this would preclude the possiblity of faith, altogether! Rightly, the answer to the question, "Is there a God?" is not yes or now; it is rather, "I believe that there is a God" or "I do not believe that there is a God." Given the lack of proof, in scientific terms, either way, those who do not believe in God may actually be faithful equally to those who do believe in God, only their faith is in the lack of a God.
If faith depends upon the measure of doubt left available to us when knowledge eludes us, then faith in God seems to me to be the far superior option to faith in no God.
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