Purpose of Creation: Part 1
There is no easy answer to these mysteries but every question has an answer. Only those who search unceasingly and enthusiastically will find the answers.
Before we can investigate the purpose of creation we have to establish that there is a Creator. No one has provided unassailable proof that a Creator exists. I prefer the word "Creator" because of the abuse of the word "God" by thousands of religions alleging that the word means what they say and everyone else is wrong. However, I will use the word "God" to mean "The Creator" because it is shorter.
God's existence is founded on belief. Some denominations of Christianity oppose any investigation to prove God's existence, insisting that it must be accepted on faith alone and that faith is not amenable to reason. Therefore, in the church's eyes, reasoning is inappropriate to prove the existence of God.
When St. Thomas Aquinas tried to prove the existence of God by reason, the church stopped him from pursuing his inquiry in spite of his belief that reasoning can operate within faith.. To have unassailable faith we must reason and prove.
When we realize our belief is wrong we change our beliefs. My belief about a bogey-man changed when I became an adult.
Knowledge also is changeable. Once we believed that the earth was flat. Not any more. We changed when we became more knowledgeable. Therefore to know is better than to believe without knowledge.
To know, we must investigate, find out, check our findings, and repeatedly arrive at the same answer. We have to search until we find and continue to search to make sure that our findings are true. By avoiding to investigate, we will not find out the truth.
All advances in civilization and science are the result of investigation. It is after repeated probes that we have built up our present understanding of the universe; that the sun has nine planets and the earth is 92,957,000 miles away from the sun and the universe is expanding, that quarks, gluons and atoms are the foundation of all that exists, that diseases can be cured by genetic manipulation, that new materials can be created, and much, much more.*
Similarly, we have to investigate the existence of a Creator. Some scientists argue that the universe came by itself and was not created. If so, it was self-created and the universe itself is the Creator. In any case, there is a Creator.
Morris Mandel in his book "A Complete Treasury Of Stories" , wrote that Kirschner, an astrophysicist had an orrery, a replica of the sun and its nine planets with their celestial distances and speeds of motion reproduced in exact proportion. The orrery could be set in motion by cranking a shaft. An atheist friend, seeing this replica, asked who made it. Kirschner casually replied, "No one." His friend repeated the question and again received the same answer. His friend was insulted and said, "Do you think that I am such a fool as to believe that this was not made by someone?"
Kirschner replied, "This is just a replica. Many times when I told you that the original was made by a Creator, you did not believe and began to argue to prove me wrong. Yet, you cannot believe a small model could have originated without a maker."
Recently, Dr. Walter Bradley, professor at Texas A&M University, wrote an article, "Scientific Evidence for The Existence Of God". He concluded this well documented article without providing any evidence saying, "While Scientific evidence for the existence of God cannot be made, there is compelling evidence that such belief is perfectly reasonable." Many Christian theologians are also of the same opinion. But, for me, "perfectly reasonable" is not good enough for the most important subject in the universe affecting billions of human beings who lived and died and the billions that will be born and die.
Every question has an answer. We must persist and keep on searching until we find the proof. If we persist we will .
Though we cannot see the wind we know that there is wind by the movement of the leaves. By its actions we can know that it exists. We know for every pot there is a pot-maker. Therefore if there is a creation there has to be a creator. No further proof is s required for the existence of a creator.
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Dr. Simon is a retired research scientist and philanthropist. Visit his website at http://simonsecret.org
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