2003-07-03 1:30 pm
Kant Cant
The weakest argument against the existence of God is that "there is a scientific explanation for everything."
This argument is weak because it supposes that God is the anti-science, and that where formulas and laws exist, there can be no God. It is confusing, really, religion with supersitition. They are not the same. And the fact that there surely IS a scientific explanation for everything seems to point both ways - towards a Creator, and towards no Creator - but not to one rather than the other. As such, it is an entirely irrelevant matter to bring into the discussion.
I think if God had a favourite subject, it'd be maths.
It's also equally useless to suppose that religion was invented to allay our fears of death. There are plenty of religions which have no afterlife mythology, and the earliest religions saw death as something final - a return to the soil. There was no Heaven or Hell.
I don't believe in God, but I think it is preferable to. And I hope one day that I will. That is what I am waiting for, for that believe to rise in me. I feel incomplete without it. It is as if I have a blindfold on, and I can see nothing of the beauty that I believe to be in front of me - belief in the belief in God.
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