by Curtis Hahn

Created on: May 07, 2008

When Billy Graham was asked to prove the existence of God, he likened it unto the wind "I can't see the wind, but I can see the effects of the wind." Our emotions can be defined as possessing that same sort of intangibility; we can't see love, but we sense that indescribable feeling in our stomach, once embraced by loves strong hold. We can't see anger, but we can watch as the tyrant throws his chair across the room in disgust.

The Bible tells us in 1 John that God is love. If anyone has ever loved, or been loved, and thus believes in the existence of love, then according to the Bible, they believe in God. Unfortunately, there are too many people who have discounted the accuracy, legitimacy, and the divine inspiration of the Bible; without physical evidence, these folks will always struggle with the existence of God.

Since Biblical reasoning is futile in these situations, we are left with exploring the options of how the human race exists, if there is no God who created us. The first option that comes to mind is the idea that we were planted here on earth by aliens, as some sort of extraterrestrial experiment. The United States government, which professes to be "one nation under God", has spent, and continues to spend billions of dollars on its space program. Part of that program is the exploration of any kind of alien life form. To date, there has been no official record of any such life.

The other popular theory is we are all some sort of cosmic accident. Billions of years ago, a "big bang" sparked a chain reaction, leading up to the formation of the countless galaxies that surround the Milky Way, where we find our solar system perfectly situated. As an inhabitant of the third planet from the sun, I am amazed at the astronomical odds of this cataclysmic event. I have also been perplexed by the question of "where did it come from?" In other words, even if the Big Bang Theory is correct, where did the two atoms come from that collided, starting in motion the perpetual evolution of the universe?

While the existence of God has not been proven through physical evidence, neither has the existence of aliens, or the theory of the Big Bang. The one common denominator all three of these options share is faith. We can either put our faith in the unfathomable odds of the Big Bang Theory, the unlikely chance that we are nothing more than specimens in an alien nation's Petri dish, or we can put our faith in a God who created a people in which he could commune, for all eternity.

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