Reflection On The Existence Of God

Reflection on the existence of God

Introduction.

Before asking the question ‘Is God?’, First we have to take into account our philosophical predispositions. If, for example, I am already committed to the philosophical idea that nothing exists outside the natural limits and established scientific parameters, no evidence will convince me otherwise. Formulate the question exists God?, it would not make sense. My answer would be ‘no, it does not exist’ regardless of whether God really exists or not. 

The question would be impossible to answer from a test point of view, simply because nothing that God may have done (any supernatural act) is tangible, so it is impossible to verify evidence of its existence. In other words to a supernatural god, for those who are against, it is not allowed to exist.

Developing.

In the beginning, it served as an answer for the great questions and fears of man like: Where do we come from?, What is there after death?, Why are there torrential rains that destroy our villages?. On the other hand, the stealthy who saw in social fragility appeared a way to position themselves above the rest, and thus take advantage of weakness and transform it into fear, capable of keeping great masses under the control of a few. They did not need to be great warriors, nor hunters, nor thinkers, they only needed that everyone knew that they were the only ones able to communicate with the gods to overvalue them. This new control system was very effective and the wicked won because the fuel of this never ended.

The reflection on the existence of God implies a debate between different positions, which is usually not limited to the world of reason, but extends to that of beliefs and emotional. Theism and atheism are the great antagonistic positions. Classic theism affirms that God has all possible perfection, including virtues such as omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence. Tomas de Aquino made a book that describes five tests that affirm the existence of God, entitled: "The five ways". The first one is the movement.

Therefore, everything that moves is moved by another. But, if what moves another is, in turn, moved, it is necessary that a third party move it, and this other. But you cannot follow indefinitely, because that way there would be no first engine and, therefore, there would be no engine, because the intermediate engines do not move more than by virtue of the movement they receive from the first, the same as a cane nothing moves if notThe hand drives it. Therefore, it is necessary to reach a first engine that is not moved by anyone and this is what everyone understands by God.

In this first chapter, it introduces that everything that has movement is driven by an engine, a cycle that can be infinite and that ends by admitting the existence of a first motionless engine, described in this case as God. The second way is efficiency. We find that in this world of the sensitive there is a certain order between the efficient causes if, therefore, the series of efficient causes would be extended indefinitely, there would be no first efficient cause, and, therefore, neither the ultimate effect nor an efficient intermediate cause, false thingclearly. Therefore, it is necessary that there is a first efficient cause, which everyone calls God.

Describes the existence of efficient situations, in other words, situations that would have to have existed before existing, which is impossible. In this way he attributes to God the being the great efficient engine of these. The third way is contingency. If your need depends on another, as it is not possible, as we have seen when dealing with efficient causes, accepting an indefinite series of necessary things, it is forced that there is something that is necessary by itself and that does not have outside the causeof his need, but is the cause of the need of others, which everyone calls God.

Comments that things can be produced or destroyed. It is impossible for things to be the possibility of not existing there are always. There must be a being that is absolutely necessary and that the cause of its existence and necessity is not in another but in itself and that is the cause of the existence of others, and this is God. The fourth way talks about the degrees of perfection.

In the world there are different degrees of perfection, which imply the existence of a model with which the comparison is established. A supreme being. The fifth road is the purpose. Things that lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, work for an end, as proven by observing that always, or almost always, work in the same way to achieve what suits them most;where it is understood that they will not end up working to perhaps, but intentionally. Then there is an intelligent being that directs all natural things to an end, we already call God.

In this express the existence of a being with an intelligence extremely greater than that of any being and that orders and directs all kinds of natural situation. Atheism denies any type of divinity or being/supernatural beings and also indicate the impossibility of its omnipotent and benevolent nature, according to which God should then not allow the existence of evil and suffering in the world. On the other hand, we find agnosticism which considers that we lack reasonable arguments about the existence or absence of a supernatural god and denies the possibility of knowing its existence. Therefore, he does not want to make a decision or for or against this.

One of the most valued astrophysicians of this last century Stephen Hawkins is positioned in both positions. In his most famous work, brief history of time, published in 1988, Hawking suggested that man would only know "the mind of God" when he managed to understand the theory of all things, which seeks to unify in a consistent way the forces that govern the universe. Until then it was considered agnostic, and although the existence of a superior being could not demonstrate scientifically, nor did the door close to that possibility: the concept of the divine exceeded its knowledge.

 However, a few years later, he changed his idea in the book "The Great Design" where he declared that the universe arose from nothing, spontaneously, as an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. In a nutshell, God is not necessary to explain the origin of everything. Now he has confirmed his radical position: “What I meant when I said that we would know‘ the mind of God ’was that we would understand everything that God would be able to understand if it existed. But there is no god. I’m an atheist. Religion believes in miracles, but these are not compatible with science ”.

Conclusions.

God, if it exists, will never be an empirical object and science only treats things that can be manipulated with measurement systems. Therefore, you can never demonstrate your existence or your absence scientifically. But there will always be part of the population that trusts supernatural beings in which to trust fully.