There are numerous arguments for the existence of God. The following is
to me the most compelling. It goes like this: “I think, therefore…God.”
Allow
me to explain, and I think by the end this simple statement will make
sense. The fact that I can think implies that there is a source of
intelligence. The atheist will object and say that our thoughts are just
the synapses in our brains firing. This assumes that the synapses are
the cause of thinking, and not the result. Of course, if you are to
believe this, how can you be certain that there is no God? How can you
rely on those synapses, which by your own admission, tell you what to
think? Taking this approach, there is no way of truly knowing anything,
and the whole field of science is a contradiction of itself. Anything
assumed to be true is only assumed as such because the one who assumes
has no control over his assumption. He could well be assuming that which
is the furthest from the truth. The mechanics of the brain controlling
the thoughts is a belief of determinism. There is no such thing as free
will from this perspective. Taken to its logical conclusion, determinism
assumes that all things are the result of no cause. If every action is
the result of another action, what about the first action? If there is a
line of dominoes tipped over, do we not assume that it began with a
first domino being tipped? If not, did the first domino somehow break
the rules and act out of free will? Or do we assume that there is an
infinite line of dominoes stretching back that tipped over, but never a
first domino responsible for the others falling?
The theist, on
the other hand, assumes that there is at the very least an initial
action responsible for the actions that followed. Applying this to the
universe, there must have been an initial action that resulted in the
universe. The universe cannot explain itself because it is an effect
that needs a cause. If there is an initial cause, then free will must
exist, at least somewhere, because there cannot be a cause by itself
without it making the choice to be a cause. Christians like myself call
this cause God. The atheists always object, “Then who or what made God?”
This is where faith is required, because you cannot scientifically
explain an eternal being. We believe that God exists outside of the
constraints of time, so no cause is required for His own existence. But
consider the alternative. If there is no God, you have to believe that
either the universe itself is eternal and doesn’t require a cause,
therefore time doesn’t exist, or there was an effect without a cause,
and time began at that point. None of those explanations are scientific.
Now going back to my initial statement, there cannot be a
thought without a cause. Assuming godless evolution occurred, where did
the first thought appear? How did such a thought evolve? How do you go
from being brain-dead to brain-active? Does life come from death? If
this universe existed without intelligence, how did it get to be
intelligent? To assume that it wasn’t is to assume that I am greater
than the universe that created me. I am smart. The universe is dumb. How
did something so dumb make something so smart? You can’t create
something from nothing, especially if you are as dumb as the atheist
would make the universe out to be. This is why it is irrational to
believe in a godless existence. We are intelligent because there is a
source of intelligence. “I think, therefore… God.”
