Does God Exist

The existence of God and mans origin has been a controversial topic since the beginning of time, Philosophers, theologians, and lay persons have been, and always will be debating this subject. The purpose of my paper will be to analyze this topic giving my own opinions, and those of others that I have come across in my research. The different arguments from each side of the spectrum are quite interesting and often equally believable. There is an abundance of information on this subject because it is such a popular topic of debate.

To begin, I would like to state an opinion of mine that I believe is very relevant in this discussion. For one to truly have a belief in something, an element of faith will always be needed. For me to believe in the existence of God, there is going to come a point when I must have faith in God and the validity of my belief. Most of the points that believers in God give for His existence can be countered by atheists. Is God real? Are we here by chance? If we weren’t created by God, rather by an explosion or oozing out of a pool of slime, what is our purpose in life? Is there an after life? I will evaluate the relevance of these questions and examine the many theories of atheists .

Philosophers will spend a lifetime arguing about the meaning of a word and never really get there. One is reminded of the college student who was asked how his philosophy class was going. He replied that they had not done much because when the teacher tried to call roll, the kids kept arguing about whether they existed or not. Hoyle, Frederick http://www.doesgodexist.org/ I thought this was a very amusing point about Philosophy. He goes on from this quote to discuss the way something is proved in the real world. For example: Most of us who live and work in the real world do not concern ourselves with such activities. We realize that such discussions may have value and interest in the academic world, but the stress and pressure of day-to-day life forces us to deal with a very pragmatic way of making decisions. If I ask you to prove to me that you have $2.00, you would show it to me. Even in more abstract things we use common sense and practical reasoning. If I ask you whether a certain person is honest or not, you do not flood the air with dissertations on the relative nature of honesty; you would give me evidence one way or the other. The techniques of much of the philosophical arguments that go on would eliminate most of engineering and technology if they were applied in those fields. If we do exist, there are only two possible explanations as to how our existence came to be. Either we had a beginning or we did not have a beginning. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1 :1). The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created," and that is a concise statement of the atheist's belief. Like all stars, the sun generates its energy by a nuclear process known as thermonuclear fusion. Every second that passes, the sun compresses 564 million tons of hydrogon into 560 million tons of helium with 4 million tons of matter released as energy. In spite of that tremendous consumption of fuel, the sun has only used up 2% of the hydrogen it had the day it came into existence. This incredible furnace is not a process confined to the sun. Every star in the sky generates its energy in the same way. Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thereby reducing the total amount of hydrogen in the cosmos. Just think about it! If everywhere in the cosmos hydrogen is being consumed and if the process has been going on forever, how much hydrogen should be left? Suppose I attempt to drive my automobile without putting any more gas (fuel) into it. As I drive and drive, what is eventually going to happen? I am going to run out of gas. If the cosmos has been here forever, we would have run out of hydrogen long ago! The fact is, however, that the sun still has 98% of its original hydrogen. The fact is that hydrogen is the most abundant material in the universe! Everywhere we look in space we can see the hydrogen 21 cm line in the spectrum a piece of light only given off by hydrogen. This could not be unless we had a beginning! Hoyle, Frederick http://www.doesgodexist.org/

Wow! It is amazing to read of scientific marvels as unbelievable as those. Think about how much hydrogen that is. 564 million tons per second! Per second! If these facts don’t make you think twice about a higher power up there, nothing will. Not only does this disprove the idea that we have no beginning because the sun would be burned up by now, how does something as powerful as the sun come into existence without a higher power knowing exactly what we need. The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter. Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life. Not to mention that earth is the exact right distance from the sun. Just a few miles closer and the earth would be to hot to sustain human life, just a few miles further and it would be to cold. Marilyn Adamson http://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html

All this happened by accident? I guess we just got lucky? Frederick was disproving an atheistic belief but he was also pointing out a key point that he didn’t even know. Everything in this world is made exactly how it is needed for the survival of man. Example: distance from sun, Oxygen in our atmosphere, the list could go on forever. As I research more, I find more and more interesting information on God and his magnificence, and more and more amusing atheists blindly refuting the existence of God. I want to share an interesting article written by Dr. David Menton. Menton, being one of the best writers I found in my research, tackled the serious questions in comparing atheist’s theories to Christian theories. He wrote an article on Carl Sagan that was very to the point and made the reader ponder the real absurdness of evolution . Sagan, who insists that evolution is a fact not a theory, maintains that "we (humans) are the products of a long series of biological accidents" and thus concludes that "...in the cosmic perspective there is no reason to think that