by Peyton Quinn

Created on: January 10, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

Science can not prove or disporve the existence of God, but Science is mankind's best tool to understanding both the physical and spirtual world.

When I was young University student and took the fist Calculus sequence the thing that struck me was this: "How is it that these handfull of equations completely describe so many things in our universe? From the spiral of a footbal, the draining of a leaking water tank or the orbitng of a planet around a sun?"

The master question being " How or Who set it all up like this?"

So to pretend we know the nature of God is what the ancient Greeks called the sin of Hubris. That is, to think yourself equal to the Gods.

For if you could know and understand the existence and mind of "God" then would you not be the equal of God?

I do not see God as a being at all but as process without end. We are beings and so we often make our "God" or Gods" in our own image. But how can God be so limited?

Yet, is not strange that the Bagadavida written sevral thousand years ago starts the Universe out as empty, no time, no geometry, then a Big Bang and the shower of light and material creates the universe?

Is it not curious that Hinduisim, and it off shoots, see the Universe as an expanding entity that will come to it's end and then collapse on itself and then in another Big Bang re-create the Universe again?

Yet both Science and Buddhism have at their core the same contradiction. Western science is based on cusality, a continious chain of cause and affect. Hence, nothing happens in and of it itself, but from an antecedent cause.

Yet if this fundamental concept of contnious causlaity that allows us to send spacecraft across our solar system and land on asteroids is totlaly true, then we are left with a universe that is absolutley one of predestination,. Free will is thus an illusion.

Science can no more prove that free will exists anymore than science can prove God exists.

In Buddhist thought we have the concept of Karma. Each man is destined to walk his path, and yet each man can choose his own path. It is the same contradiction as in Western Science is it not? The Yin/Yang symbol thus becomes a diagram of the Universe.

If you think some things are determined and others are not then you belive in magic. For what is magic but something happening in and of iitself with no antecedent cause? This is a very good definiton of magic is it not?

For those who look for a more "secular" God than I speak of here, then consider that the only and truest form of worship is simply service to mankind.

When you help another, when you feel true compasion for another being, especially a human being, and then you take action, perhaps even risk to remove them from that pain or sufering or perhaps even the threat of death, when you do these things look in the mirror and you are seeing a small piece of a the greater whole of God.

When you see another exercise compassion and empathy and charity, then pause a moment, as this is as close as any of us will come to seeing the face of God.

Peyton

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