Logical Arguments for God’s Existence
Arguments for God’s existence
Whenever I tell people I’m an atheist, what I’m usually saying is that most (and not all) of my being, does not belief in an interventionist God. It’s not easy to completely do away with a belief you’ve been indoctrinated into from birth, and have internalised intensely for most of your life. However, I don’t call myself “atheist” because I completely do not believe in God; I call myself “atheist” because even when I consider the negligible probability that a God exists, it still means nothing to me.
Becoming who I am today, has been a philosophical journey… in fact, it still is, because there isn’t a final bus stop until I lose my breath (permanently). On my path to doing away with the belief in the existence of God, I came up with few logical arguments for. These were arguments I came up with while I was clinging on strongly to the belief in God. I was scared of becoming an atheist. I was scared of the isolation and existential despair that came with not succumbing to the belief in a grand design. Now I look in the mirror and wink at the image of myself that once made me shiver. In my attempts to logically validate the existence of God, I came up with some arguments mostly while in the toilet (take them with a pinch of salt 😂).
1. A Relative Reality
We live in a relative reality — not just contextually or in human interactions, but also in the physics of the universe — and this relativity, when unchecked, could lead to not just philosophical absurdity, but also physical chaos which could lead to even the collapse of the universe. In this argument, the mere fact that the universe exists, even in the face of all this relativism, proves God exists. just hear me out:
It is not news that in human interactions, there exist relativism. As humans, whenever we interact socially, there is always an incessant need for context, because we individually interpret our realities from different perspectives, and no two reality/perspective can ever be the same. Hence the need for humanity to have our own objective entity, which is the “law”. This is important because if we do not collectively create our own absolutes, our societies would not work — therefore, murder is wrong and you should never steal, these are not universal truths, but functioning societies are built upon laws like these. But on a grand scale, these human-made laws are meaningless, and are also born from our intrinsic and chaotic relativism.
In the physical sciences, there also exist such relativism. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, there also exist relativity in the measurement and observation of physical parameters. Although there already exists some sort of objective mathematical model for finding actual values of these physical parameters — space-time (in conjunction with light) — that too, constantly changes/expands along with the accelerating expansion of the universe. Basically, our reality appears to be just unhinged rotor blades of a metaphysical fan. But if such was actually the case, we wouldn’t be existing in this moment — this universe would have never seen the big bang. So there has to be an absolute, a hinge to our metaphysical fan blades, a bridge to our socio-moral and physical reality — that bridge is God. His manifestation and nature is not relevant in this argument.
2. Infinity and Absurdity
In our mathematics, there exist a persistent value called “infinity”. Infinity implies the endless nature of systems in logic and mathematics. Infinity is not just a value, but also a concept/admittance. It is the concept that there are things outside the boundary of our logic, and our ability to compute our reality. It is the admittance of things we would never be able to comprehend or understand as humans. Although we can’t comprehend infinity, it still influences and manifests in our mathematics. Infinity is a mathematical value, the equivalent manifestation of infinity in human philosophy is absurdity.
Absurdism is the realisation of an “absurd” within our reality. It is the belief that life — as we know it — is inherently meaningless, purposeless, and made up of inconsistent and contradictory rationales. Albert Camus wrote extensively on the subject in his essay titled: “The Myth of Sisyphus”. Absurdism, Nihilism, and Existentialism, are all philosophies built around the absurdity, however, absurdism emphasizes man’s contact with it more. According to absurdism, at some point in our lives, we encounter contradictory and inconsistent ideas and rationales, whereas the simultaneous chaos and emptiness bares its face to us. Absurdity is very much like infinity; we can’t comprehend it. What we do with this lack of logical comprehension differs in the science (mathematics) and pseudo-science (philosophy).
What all this implies is that there is a reality outside our comprehension. That incomprehensible reality is God (or harbours God). God lies in the relationship between the absurd, and infinity.
Conclusion
No argument for anything is perfect. Not even the arguments against God’s existence can be considered perfect. However, logicians must qualify and quantify the existence of something by its consequence. If a thing bares no consequence to our objective reality, it doesn’t exist. For example: if I hypothetically happen to bear hate for someone, but never speak of it, or do anything that implies such hate; consequentially, that hate does not exist/never existed. The reason why I say God does not exist, is because if hypothetically, he happens to exist and I just can’t comprehend it, it bares no consequence to me, and so therefore I may interpret him to not exist. But this is where religious faith comes in; the unrelenting belief in things beyond man’s comprehension of reality.
