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GOD EXISTS – THE PROOF
 
 1. THE PROBLEMS WITH SCIENCE AND RELIGION.At one time or another we all have pondered the mysteries of life, the purpose of ourexistence here on this little planet, and our relationship with the infinite universe.Perhaps we have questioned the reality of our experience, asking whether it is thecreation of a divine being, or the inevitable outcome of the action and reaction of cosmicenergies in producing matter within the constraints of a seemingly random set of naturallaws.Certainly, almost everyone, even if they themselves are reasonably fortunate, will havewondered at the continued and often unfairly distributed wretchedness of the human lot,and particularly at the frequency with which such wretchedness is wrought by one’sfellow man.I have looked for answers to such questions in history, science and religion, and yet,regarding the most important questions, with Omar Khayyam I came out pretty much bythe same door as in I went.History is the record of man’s progress through the ages, and his survival against allthe odds. To the student it shows the heights to which man’s creativity and artistry mayclimb, but it also offers us a wealth of examples of the depths of barbarism to whichhumans have sunk time and time again over the millennia. If man has learned from theselessons in how not to behave, then there is little evidence of it in practise. We are rightlydismayed that in the early years of a new millennium, with hundreds of thousands of years of “man’s inhumanity to man” behind us, the media delivers to us an unending,always increasing diet of that same inhumanity - nation upon nation, tribe upon tribe,
 
religion upon religion, or, simply, neighbour upon neighbour. What do we think we aredoing?Yet, with such tremendous advances in all areas of science, surely there is ground foroptimism for a better and more civilised future!There is hardly a facet of our lives that has not been scrutinised, analysed and affectedby one or other of the vast range of scientific disciplines: The secrets and mysteries of lifeand the universe are assailed with the microscope and telescope, and become explanatoryin terms of simple cause and effect, of scientific fact. For any problem there is a solutiondependent on defining the symptoms and applying the logic of the system to deduce thecause - social, mental or physical.Perhaps for all of these benefits of science we should be truly thankful; and, indeed, inmany ways we are. However, as far as we humans are concerned, the failing of sciencelies partly in its utter objectivity - and thus its amorality - and its almost total concernwith the material world. From this material viewpoint, matters spiritual are deemedimmeasurable and thus beyond the scope of science - which is a neat way of writing themoff! Who needs spirituality when science has, or will have, all the answers we mightneed? Even the mysterious ‘psyche’ of psychology and its related disciplines isapproached via its behavioural manifestations.It is in the western world, particularly, that science now has largely undermined theplace that religion had occupied for centuries, where the ‘nanny state’ has usurped theresponsibility of the individual and the family unit, and countless people have lost theirway, their faith and their conscience. Perhaps this is inevitable when every precept of faith has been questioned - and found wanting!
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