Does God Exist

¶ … God Exist?

The debate as to whether God exists or not has gone on for centuries. Those convinced that there is no God turn to human misery, violence against innocents, natural disasters and other horrific events and argue that if there was a God, He wouldn't allow such cruel events to happen. Those who argue that there is definitely a God, say that He created the earth and the universe but He doesn't seek to control every event every moment and even though He was the Creator of all things in the Cosmos; in other words, He can't be blamed for events that happen on Earth.

If God Exists, then why…. What did ministers and other spiritual leaders say about God, or example, following the terrorists attaches on the United States on September 11, 2001? An article in the journal America quotes Mother Angelica (the Catholic nun who founded the Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN) said that there must be a distinction between "God's desirous will and permissive will" (Waznak, 2001, p. 1). Mother Angelica turned to the words of philosopher / theologian Thomas Aquinas, who stated: "God… neither wills evil to be done, or wills it not to be done, but wills to permit evil to be done, and that is a good" (Waznak, p. 1).

On September 16, 2001, Pope John Paul II told the people, "I pray that the Virgin Mary might help them [the Americans] not to fall into temptation of hatred and violence, but rather to commit themselves to justice and peace" (Waznak, p. 2).

But do those quotations prove that God exists? No. They are likely fairly typical of how the clergy responds to difficult questions. Aside from the fact that those remarks don't prove anything, they all assert that God is inexistence, but humans fail when it come to fully explaining extreme happenings that hurt people.

Meanwhile, Donald R. Morse claims God does exist and his reasoning is five-fold: a) the Earth's size is "just as it has to be… the only known planet that has an atmosphere containing the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life" [hence, how did Earth get this way without a Creator?]; b) the universe began with the big bang, the "singular beginning to everything that exists" [something very powerful authored the origins of the universe]; c) "the universe operates by uniform natural laws… [and] there is no logical explanation for a universe that obeys rules…" and functions within mathematical codes; d) the DNA code "informs and programs a cell's behavior. DNA instructs the cell. DNA is a three-billion-lettered program telling the cell to act in a certain way" [what authorized and created that system, if not God?] and e) "We know God exists because he pursues us… constantly initiating / seeking for us to come to him… [and] keep the question of His existence constantly before us" (Morse, 2010, p. 2).

Meanwhile Oxford professor Anthony Flew argues against those who say that because of the big bang God is proven to exist. Did God cause the big bang, or was it just "popped" into existence, Flew asks. And why only two possibilities? Only a physicist can explain that, Flew asserts. Okay then, Flew explains that if God is truly "omnipotent and omniscient" and wants people to "behave in a certain way, why couldn't he accomplish this? If you were omnipotent wouldn't you expect results and expect people to do exactly what you wanted?" (Craig, 2003, p. 25). So, in terms of human behavior, shouldn't the presumption be that "as far an omnipotence is concerned, He is not interested in human behavior" (Craig, p. 25).