by Dave French

Created on: January 09, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

Can science prove the existence of God? NO; but, maybe, indirectly yes. God is the all. He is above and beyond everything; even, beyond the universe. This question, of man 'trying to prove that there is a God;' is like an ant, living in the crack in my driveway, trying to provide an explanation of how an automobile works; and, why that automobile needs a driveway.

Granted that the ant may be able to identify the soil (sand) that exists beneath my driveway concrete as a result of having burrowed through different soil materials in the past. And, by many ants, communicating digging experiences with each other, they will establish a level of tribal knowledge about soils. However, until the ants can establish a written form of communication, that can be passed on to future generations they are stuck in the tribal knowledge level of existence. Just like humans were for so many generations.

Now, once these future ant generations learn how to communicate and record their findings; then, they have to develop a method of sharing and processing this knowledge.

Humans took many centuries to process knowledge; along that path numerous inventions and discoveries had to occur in a specific string of events. This sequence of events, that allowed us to develop include: language, writing utensils, alphabets, writing medium (skins, papyrus, papers etc.), combining like or related knowledge into scrolls and books.

Once this level of knowledge is developed; then, with help, man developed another string of events, that lead to further refining community knowledge. Again, that string took centuries to develop; that, lead from the concepts of electricity, through the development of microchip, and the computer.

Now, when our ants develop their computer; they may be able to explain what a human is. But the ants still have not been able to explain, what or why humans made their driveway. The only explanation that the ants can derive is that their is a superior being that developed the driveway for some unknown purpose.

Which brings us back to our original question; "Can science prove the existence of God?" Just like the ants in the tale above; IF, the ants were allowed to make all of the advances that humans have made over many many lifetimes; without experiencing any cataclysm through their history, and they are able to harness their own computers, they were still not able to identify why the driveway was there. Likewise, we humans cannot prove that there is a 'God' in existence above

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