Monday, November 26, 2012

Nature

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1 ESV)

Men come up with all kinds of reason to prove that God does not exist. He did not perform miracles today. He only perform miracles in the past recorded in books which we think are likely to be myths. He allows evil. The whole system runs fine without Him.

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." Frank Lloyd Wright

Everything works without God. Nature takes care of everything. Therefore Occam's razor says God is redundant.

But nature takes care of everything except justice and morality, the good and bad things, the things that matter the most to us. Nature is amoral.

Some people try to add a moral dimension to nature. I do not find them convincing because they cannot prove morality in nature in the same way as other amoral laws of nature (e.g. Law of Gravity) are proven.

Others claim that morality is a product of evolution, pointing to the behaviour of social animals, such as elephants and baboons. Morality is a trait that allow successful perpetuation of the species, thus it was evolved. And, of course, evolution is the ultimate aimless and mindless natural process that produced all the wonderful things we see and admired.

"If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria." Book description by the publisher of the book "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature" by Janine M. Benyus.

"After 3.8 million years of evolution, nature has learned what works, what is appropriate, and what lasts here on earth." Janine Benyus

But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? (Job 12:7-9 ESV)

To me, being able to learn from nature shows what a wonderful God we have, unlike Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, there is no need for Windows7, Windows8, iPhone4, iPhone5. We have Universe 1.0 since the six-day development and implementation and God had not issued any new patch.

However to those who deny God, that our universe can run without intervention does not suggest a brilliant creator. It suggests the redundancy of a creator.

But for all the arguments and denials, all these God deniers still face one problem. Men can only suggest that God probably does not exist. Men cannot prove that God does not exist.

We cannot prove that there is no God because we are not omniscience, omnipresent and omnipotent. We do not have the means and resources to prove that a creator does not exist. We require faith to believe in the non-existence of God, just as we need faith to believe in the existence of God. What if a creator God exist? Don't you want to know what He had to say to you?

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