As we look out at the vast and magnificant cosmos around us, we seem to see a sort of order to things in that many natural laws appear to be in operation as far into time and space as we can look. Even microcosms of chaos seem to collectively produce macrocosms of harmony. One is very much tempted to attribute Intention and Design to all this, if not Purpose. Surely this can not all be just an infinite accident eternally in the process of continuous creation or cyclical rejuvenation!
But that is as far as I can go. I must simply leave it right there as a marvel and a great wonder, and speculate no further. I simply do not know. I do not believe that the human mind is capable of knowing or comprehending such Design or it's alleged Designer. Or to put it more directly, I do not believe than man can ever know whether god does or does not exist. I suppose that most just accept the existence of god on the basis of faith, and although I do not discount the validity of intuitive knowledge, I do not believe that such things can be known just by faith either. To me, that is too much akin to believing something just because it is what I want to believe.
Far, far greater intellects than my simple self could ever be have pondered and debated this for centuries. The path of history is strewn with the well-worn Teleological, Ontological and Cosmological arguments for the existence of god. But to assert that god does exist or to assert that god does not exist is to make a statement of Absolute Truth. And, evidently, my basic pre-supposition is that man can not know Absolute Truth.
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A spark of the Divine lies within us all.
T. Henry |