Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Is it possible to believe in nothing?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
~Voltaire~

Often I find myself sitting and pondering about those who claim to be atheist and have not a shadow of doubt that there is no God.  I don't understand the concept.  Agnostics I kinda sorta get.  They say there's no proof whether or not there is a God.  Even with them, I still don't get the lack of choosing one side or the other in which to believe.

Now, don't get me wrong - I totally support everyone's right to believe (or not believe) as he or she chooses.  I just don't understand the idea of having no doubt that something doesn't exist.  I guess I just ponder the "what-ifs" too much.  Faith is absolutely important to me so to not have any is incomprehensible to me.  Besides, I was always taught that you can't prove a negative.

It just boggles my mind, though, that when we look around all that God has created (and, yes, I firmly and unequivocally believe HE created everything) that some choose to believe everything was a random accident that resulted in a 'big bang' that lead to the creation of everything and the intricate ways in which everything works together.  Seriously?  What are the odds of that happening?

Things work too well together to be random.   Human beings breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.  Trees and plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.  That's random?  The sun warms us during the day and the moon lights our nights. That's random?  Every species has a male and female gender and the two genders physically fit together and creates life in a way that can't possibly be random.

Consider the complexity of the human being.  No two people share the same fingerprints or iris imprint.  Each person has his or  her own unique DNA that identifies each of us even in a group of billions of people.  How is it possible that each and every fingerprint, iris and DNA pattern is identifiably different from all the others?  This is random?  It's said that of all the snowflakes that have ever fallen or will ever fall, no two are alike.  How could that possibly be a result of randomness?

I know that science looks for empirical evidence to substantiate a claim about something that has no physical or historical proof.  Because scientists can't empirically prove God exists, they choose, rather, to believe in the astronomically impossibility that all life was created by a random accident from nothingness.   Why is that easier to believe than that God exists and created everything?  Believing in God requires faith but, then, doesn't believing in nothing also require a certain amount of faith?

Believing in that which we can't see or touch is faith.  If one doesn't have faith, how can one have hope?  How can one believe in love?  You can't feel what someone else is feeling so when they tell you they love you, you have to choose whether to believe or not believe them.  You can base your belief (faith) on how they act but you can't KNOW.

Believing is faith and I choose to have faith that all that I know and all that I am was created by God. 

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