by Damian Brown

Created on: May 06, 2009   Last Updated: May 09, 2009

Having read through several of the higher rated arguments slung about in this topic, I have to say I'm impressed. But no more than I've ever been. This immortal debate and the questions it raises have always captured my curiosity, as we all know it has for many millions, even billions, of others. But more impressive than the question is not the answer, but the vast amount of intelligence and thought that goes into that answer. People from all walks of life, all creeds and belief systems and societies expend such an enormous amount of energy into asking and answering a question that, let's face it, can't ever be answered.

This is why I found it so hard to take one side of this debate, because in all honesty I think it's the most irrelevant and impossible argument in the history of our existence. But it is hellishly tempting, isn't it? However, I'm limited to making my choice to take part so I opted for what I see as the lesser of two evils. So what follows in this article is not just my reinforced opinion of the 'Invention' side, but my general outlook on the matter as a whole.

Faith is a tool and a weapon, as much as logic and opinion. It can be utilised in a broad variety of ways to cure, scorn and kill, as it regularly is. Mankind, in it's eternal search for acceptance and it's constant battle against deniability, has and will always utilise every weapon in it's arsenal to pick apart anything with cracks big enough to bear the hooks of those tools. And so it should. Some people call this science, others call it rationality, logic, faith, fear, bigotry, ignorance and even stupidity. Sadly, all of the above are true.

Both science and faith are an invention of mankind, and so the epic question of the existence of God in any form is a moot point. Some people believe science can be used to disprove the existence of such a "supernatural" idea and others believe, with all their heart (and more importantly MINDS) that faith can be used to prove it. Our belief system as human beings is biased, and therefore flawed. Our rationality and logic, inventions of a creature that has excelled beyond any other and desperately needs a reason to exist, is also biased and therefore it is also flawed. The paradox of this argument is that we need science to prove that, and we need faith to believe in it.

I won't insult anyones intelligence by doing a Freud and insisting that all mankind wants is a parental figure, because it just isn't true. But our belief in everything; power, war, sense, philosophy, taste, clowns, shoes... is all limited to what we can comprehend as an entity. Anything beyond that comprehension, anything we can't challenge or dominate, is lost to us and always will be.

So in conclusion, albiet a very morose and even depressing one, I guess we'll never know because even if the answer was giving us all a lapdance we just wouldn't be able to understand it. And what's belief without understanding? It's just a guess.

Thanks for reading.

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