Evidence for God –
the Problem of Existence
At its most simple the problem is that we exist - we are
here. Now most of us don’t regard existence as a problem…we might have thought
it a problem that the bully at school exists or that our boss exists; but existence
needs to be explained because things don’t simply happen by themselves.
In our family home things happen. A few years ago our house
alarm went off inexplicably one night. I had just put the children to bed and
had set the alarm and I was settling down on our bed to read when my peace was
disturbed by the mournful wail of the siren. For once I was fairly sure ‘the
bad guys’ as my children used to call them were not to blame. After turning off
the alarm and assuring the security company that everything was alright I went
and asked the children what had happened, they told me, “I don’t know. It wasn’t
me.”
“Nothing,” said my very young daughter but I had seen her
running down the passage heading for bed in panic at setting the alarm off.
Things don’t just happen by themselves. The toys did not
fall out of the box by themselves; the paint did not get on to the wall by
itself; Airbus A380’s do not get assembled by themselves; mathematics textbooks
do not simply appear by themselves; hurricanes do not blow and leave behind
them newly assembled nuclear submarines. Our universe is much more complicated
than any of those simple machines…our bodies are much more complicated than
those machines…something caused them to happen. We exist…that is the problem that needs an explanation…
There are only three possible solutions to existence…
- Everything happened by accident,
- The universe created itself
- Or a powerful being made it all…
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