Life, the Universe and Everything

If you are an atheist over the age of thirty, this article is not for you. This is because I believe that once you are thirty you have passed that critical age beyond which your opinions on matters such as these are so full of conviction that new ideas just bounce off you without causing so much as a dent.

Why do men today choose to not believe in God? We have these so called ‘rational thinkers’ and ‘men of science’ who publish papers after analyzing what they observe using the complicated process of absurdo ad reductum! This is a reasonable approach as far as the sciences of everyday occurrence go but when applied to something people witness after several lifetimes of devotion (or determination) it fails miserably. Again we come to the question - Why do men today choose to not believe in God? They think it is a problem in statistics. They ask half a billion people around the globe – Have you seen God? And they reply – No. There you have it – QED! No one has ever seen God: hence he doesn’t exist. It is, in fact a statistical problem. The sample space is too small; you need to ask this question to all humans on earth for several centuries before you get a reasonable number of people who say they have. The ratio will still be astonishingly small (No small thanks to the atheists).

The argument they propound has such a gaping fallacy. It is like wondering if a star of a certain brightness and mass exists somewhere across the universe. It is impossible to prove its existence unless you spend two billion dollars and thirty earth years in a spaceship. But suppose there is a willing astronaut and funding from some rich fool. The man travels across space, sees the star and returns when he is ninety. He proclaims to the world – I have seen the star; it really exists! Hardly anyone is ready to believe him. Where is the proof? How can we be sure his descriptions are to be trusted? The pictures he has here may have been taken in any other part of the universe. And so on…He gives up trying to convince them and says – If you want to know the truth, go find it yourself! Of course no one bothers with the effort. They are content with not believing. Today, we lack men of faith. Just have faith and put your heart and soul into it and you will achieve what you desire. You will see God - that’s what our forefathers said. It is well worth the effort.