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?
The existence of a god would invalidate the most essential laws of science, and no sane person would believe “everything you know is wrong” without reason. And when you failed to show how the laws had been broken, your entire idea would be dismissed as rubbish. If you say you’re breaking the laws of physics, as my daughter say “you’d better be prepared to bring it”
But there is nothing to bring. In all our wealth of knowledge, the amount of evidence for the POSSIBILITY of the creation of matter from nothing is nil. The same goes for evidence of psychic power, ghosts, life after death, or the existence of a soul. None. The only logical solution is that matter and energy are eternal.
To be sure, I wish there were a god. Gods imply order, intent, a great plan, and of course immortality. All nice things! I wish all the bad guys went to hell and the good guys went to heaven, and everyone lived forever. I also wish the World Trade Center stood tall, and that hunger was wiped off the map. I wish all those things, sooooo much.
But wishing it doesn’t make it true.
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