TwIsTeD Reflections

Those who have read my previous post may have noticed that I left out the elaboration on the 'god' part. Reason why is because that part resides a little closer to my heart. To elaborate on it would reveal my view on the divine, which would be egoistical in a supposed unbiased piece.

I do not belong to any religion. Which is no way means that I am not a religious person. Does that confuse you? Let me explain.

While I did explain that the 'man' part and the 'god' part are equally important pieces in any structured religion, it my view that the 'man' part can be ignored. Not because I do not like traditions, regulations(ok, mayb not this) or places of worship, but because of the fact this stuff often gets in the way of objectivity when concerning religion. But in the end, I firmly believe that the belief on the 'man' portion is left up to the individual, as long as the two parts do not mix.

So the important question: Do i believe in God? The answer is yes. Which god, however, I can and cannot say. I would say all the Gods and none of them. I just believe in a higher power.

Why? No, not because of faith, as you know by now im not a believer of blind faith. No, not because of upbringing. I come from a family composed of free-thinkers, even though I did go to a christian kindergarden and secondary school. Nope, none of those. The answer is logic.

Logic? How did I come to the conclusion that God exist through logic?

Well, the answer had to be derived on unbiased grounds, without assumption. So i cannot go and assume god exists because i fear death and require the comfort that he does exist. Even though i admittedly was spurred to find an ans by precisely that reason. So, after searching Men for years, i found the answer in nature and science.

It is strange that im eloping seemingly 2 extreme faculties together. I believe that science exists because of god. The existence of God is generally residing in miracles, something which the scientific faculty scoffs at. But the result of science is, to me, a miracle in itself.

How does millions of cells, fuse into tissue and systems work cohesively to form a complex lifeform? And from that lifeform, develops intelligence to study, analyse and form conclusions?How on earth did the Hydrogen cycle just fall into place? Together with the nitrogen cycle? By coincidence? Impossible, the odds are way too great to comprehend. How does the elements of nature fit so perfectly into a nicely formed jigsaw puzzle in this place called earth, while physics run chaotic in the chaotic universe around it?

Logically, it cannot be done. Yet, it is there, miracles before our very own eyes while we search for men who walk on water. My conclusion therefore lies in an external power, changing the odds, making these miracles possible, allowing life to exist.

Furthermore, I also believe that life has to have a higher existence then contribution as fertilizer to the ground. We live years of intelligent life, of struggling, of joy, of pain. There has to be a higher purpose, otherwise, there is no point in living in general. Earth my and as well be Mars.

To finish off, I would like to quote from one of my favourite visual novels in Watchmen by Alan Moore.


Dr Manhatten, a near-godlike being, is being persuaded by his ex-girlfriend, who is crying, to come back from Mars to save Earth. He is convinced. When asked why, he replied,

"Thermo-Dynamic miracles... Events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter...

until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.

To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold...

that is the crowning unlikelihood.

The thermo-dynamic miracle.

But if me, my birth, if that's a thermo-dynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!

Yes

Anybody in the world.

But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget...

I forget.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Come... Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints clearly.

Dry your eyes...

and let's go home."