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I personally believe that there is some kind of divine spark, or creative force if you will, which permeates the universe. This is an act of BELIEF. Please note that believe and proof are very different things. I also believe in science. I believe that the world was created by the cooling down of material ejected from a star, and that on this new world there was an abundance of chemicals which naturally formed molecules which eventually became self replicating, went on to create basic DNA and then this led to the creation of single celled organisms which mutated over time and formed the multitudes of life we see today. This, however, is not an act of belief, it is FACT. It can be proven, or at least the vast majority of it can be proven. God cannot be proven. In essence, if 'there MUST be a God', then this is not a statement of belief, this is a statement of fact. Fact implies scientific rigor applied to evidence gathered and under such circumstance there is no possibility for God to exist for we have no way of proving it.

People may argue that God must exist because of the nature of things around us or the nature of ourselves. The argument normally follows along the line of 'look at that, it must have been conceived by someone because something that complicated cannot happen by chance'. This says more about the limits of human understanding than it does about the possible nature of God. Simply because an object is complicated or a system is perfectly balanced from our perspective, this does not prove the existance of God. This simply states that we are observing a tiny part of the universe which seems all in perfect order due to the way in which our brains have evolved. And I use the word 'evolve' because this is the process which created our brains, sensory organs and everything else about us. We were not 'designed'. There are plenty of mistakes in humans which any deity would have removed if we were the product of creation rather than evolution. Although the best argument for the evolution of humans generally comes from the coccyx, the bone at the base of the spine which is a remnant from evolution. The coccyx is what's left of a tail. Blasphemy many would cry, but if we are designed then what actual use does it have?

The other argument for why there must be a God normally comes from the extension of a belief system into the real world. Either 'God wrote this' or 'God made he/she/it do that'. Such arguments are shakey at best and grounds for being committed

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