Is There a God?

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The most basic functions and drives of all living organisms, and their highest biological priorities, are related to a fundamental drive to be life-sustaining.  The most obvious and of primary import are those that are self-sustaining.  Immediately thereafter, on a hierarchy of functions, drives, and their related priorities, one finds those related to being self-perpetuating.  The overall purpose of self-perpetuation is assumed by most scientists to be the drive inherent in all samples of individual species to be “species-sustaining.”   Let us assume that this does indeed constitute a primary functional purpose of the drives and instincts related to procreation and the nurturing and protection of that/those procreated, as the former is found in almost all organisms and the latter is found in almost all animal-life and in the human species (at least).

Throughout recorded human history, our species has held and conveyed a conventional wisdom that what comes from any source tends more than not to reflect its source.  This conventional observation explained as much as it reflected the reality that children often look like parents, that two cats will not reproduce a dog, or that certain talents and capacities may be more common to one family than another.

As human beings, we willfully choose whether to procreate or not.  In most instances, it is a fundamental choice on our part, in this day and age, whether to allow our instinctual drives toward procreation to facilitate this specific end-result.  Would it not stand to reason, therefore, that the Source of the Universe willed the Universe into being?  Might we not most likely reflect that from which we derive as a species, and might the Universe not most likely reflect that from which it derives?  The world seeks its sustenance and challenges its will to do so – both consciously, most likely, only in the human experience, and the latter, most likely, only a human phenomenon.  Assuming that we are correct that we humans are the most complex life-forms created, it is reasonable to assume that the world’s Source is capable of at least as much complexity as we reflect. 

Therefore, Argument 2, as it is proposed herein, suggests that it is not only most likely that we derive from a Source such as a God, but, also that we reflect certain urges, instincts, wills, and complexities of which God is, at the very least, capable.