Essay on Discussion over the Existence of God - 1249 Words

The discussion over the existence of God remains one of the finest pursuits of the human mind to break out of the world and surpass the practical or extraordinary realm of experience. Without a doubt, the question of Gods existence is one of the most significant questions of human philosophy. It alters the whole meaning of human life, and it challenges if man is really the Supreme Being in the universe or if man has a greater being that he must love and obey, or possibly defy. So the question is; does God exist? Look at the proof produced by the voraciously religious spirit of man, the origins of the universe, and morality. There are many different theories and opinions on how man came to be, evolution, space, Adam and Eve, God†¦etc.†¦show more content†¦It is harder for me to conceive that God doesn’t exist because there is no other conceivable explanation for how all of the magnificent thinks here on Earth were created; there is no other logical explanation for how things so complex came to exist; as far as I’m concerned. William Paley explains it best; â€Å"But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given,--that, for anything I know, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone?...For this reason, and for no other, namely, that, when we come to inspect the watch we perceive - what we could not discover in the stone - that its several parts are famed put together for a purpose†¦ This mechanism being observed... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker....who comprehended its construction, and designed its use† (Wolff, 2012, p. 315) Some would argue that evolution is the reason for everything and that we all evolved from a single cell that emerged from Earth. Okay then; why havenâ€℠¢t we continued to evolve? If we started out as apes then why are there still apes here; what determines which apes will be Human? To me this sounds more far-fetched than there being a God. 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