Sunday, 8 July 2012

Proving God

Hey! Higgs-Boson Particle, hey! I suppose nobody cleanly comprehends the Higgs-Boson particle theory, except those scientists in Switzerland. Personally, it means nothing to me if you explain the Big Bang Theory in complex equations. I'd rather watch Sheldon Cooper. That's when I don't even like The Big Bang Theory (the sitcom). Perhaps, there's a reason why we can't grasp the concept. I'm not sure we're supposed to understand the "God Particle" or "God" himself. It literally floats a little above our intelligence. Right out of reach.


While some atheists are saying "told you so", I'm wondering what exactly they told us: "The particle has no intrinsic spin, no electric charge, and no colour charge."? Don't remember that. The God Particle doesn't negate God at any rate. And when I speak of God, I speak of a God devoid of Religion. A higher power without form or folklore attached. Why doesn't God show himself? When do you ever know the names of the architects of a building? Do you ever see the Directors or Producers on screen?. You see the directors names on the rolling credits and that's it. 


I could explain the intangibility angle by comparing God to another really strong force: Love. Nobody knows if love really exists, nobody can define it or quantify it but we all still believe in it. Even if we don't indulge ourselves in the romantic angle of love, we love our pets or parents or children or something. Strangely enough, we all also have our own ideas and notions of love. And that's completely acceptable. Much like how God should be. Again, kindness is an intangible feeling but if you boast about your kind deeds, they don't remain so kind anymore. All these intangible feelings are complex and very powerful, often open to interpretation and beyond accepted rationality.


The only other scientific theory against the existence of God is Evolution. I didn't even buy the theory of evolution when I was 11 years old. It just didn't make sense. Strangely enough, Darwin's theory is scientifically untested and yet, accepted. There could be a reason for that. During the medieval times, Science needed credibility. For all its efforts in ongoing inventions and discoveries and effective approval from society it needed to contest Divinity. My two main problems with Darwin's theory?


1. Haven't seen anything evolving in eons. Something should be in the process of mutating and changing right now? Refer the case of fruit flies on Google for further explanation. Nothing is really evolving.


2. Even if I do accept that humans evolved from apes, what the hell created the millions of other species roaming this planet? Even scientifically, dead chemicals cannot prove the origin of life.

This entire planet, solar system and these universes (plural) are the only truly imaginative creations. It was probably made and created and imagined from thin air. And its so pretty. Every thing else that we create is inspired from the original creation. Let's see how. Even if you do create something conceptually new, whether its a painting or poetry or technology, you use things that are available to you, that already belong to this world. Poetry about a lover, Art about the mountains or even inventing an iPhone is still sourced from existing material or muses. Even Cloning is just copying, we cannot envision a new being and give it life. Whoever created the world, pulled this design out of sheer imagination, without any help.


There's also that the placement, location, temperatures at which we exist cannot be a coincidence. A few million kilometres ahead or before and we would have been space dust, probably. The Honda 'Cog' television commercial which is one of the most expensive TVC's ever directed shows a sequence of complex chain reactions of car parts to depict superior engineering for the seventh-generation of Accord. Obviously the advertisement took a lot of time, intelligence and attempts to spark off the right sequence. Much like we need rain after heat, condensation, evaporation, reproduction and even digestion cannot be a matter of chance. Long story short, the precise ways in which the world is running cannot be a mere cosmic mishap.


There are ample observations to suggest that the human form and possibly the entire planet were created by Intelligence. The true and mathematical theory of "The Divine Ratio" popularized by The Da Vinci Code is one. I find it hard to believe that our existence; the human body, the planet and the universe and its complex arrangement and successful execution is a result of neutrons colliding with protons, or whatever. Sure, Science is helpful. We can't do without it. But its pretty obvious that Science only explains, it doesn't create. Respect & ridiculous amounts of admiration to CERN for just building the halogen collider, let alone conducting experiments in it, but it still doesn't negate God or whatever you want to call whoever created this system.  If you still think that the world is an accident then we're a pretty long-surviving and resilient accident with quite a few plans.


Godspeed and May the force be with you.

3 comments:

  1. To start with -

    Here's a little proof (though not completely scientific but much stronger than your statements) for you for :

    http://library.thinkquest.org/18757/darwinstheory.htm

    Moreover the issue is much more scientific and needs a deeper understanding rather than comparing it with abstract things like Love and kindness which are mere feelings.

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    1. I've actually read about adaptation & survival of the fittest. It still doesn't explain the Origin of Life. I understand how the blogpost can seem naive, but it is only an opinion. You can completely choose to disagree. I welcome a counter-argument.

      I wouldn't ever dismiss any feeling as a "mere feeling" though. Thank you for commenting :)

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  2. Um.. perhaps you should try to read about it before you reject 'Evolution'.
    It is in fact a widely tested theory.. confirmed again and again.. and a quick google search for 'evolution proof' would have shown you the way, but you chose not to do it, and instead gave an opinion.. it's wonderful to have an opinion, as long as it has basis in facts.. here's something that'll get you started
    http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/atheistgems#Evolution

    P.S. Evolution does not negate the existence of God( devoid of religion). It still happened because Universe has rules.. why the big bang happened.. and the various forces that came into being.. they developed a certain way according to some 'laws' as physics defines them.. and that all lead to life and evolution and whatnot.. what was the source of those rules.. we still don't know.. perhaps that prime mover is god.. perhaps that one thing that started it all is god.. perhaps we are all a part of that one particle.. part of the same stardust..

    P.P.S. Higgs Boson is in no way related to God. It is called the God particle because someone wrote a book about it, and couldn't call it the goddamn particle(seriously :P)..
    It just shows how matter acquires the property we know as 'mass'.. nothing else..
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

    P.P.P.S. Science, by its very definition is the study of the laws of nature.. i.e. how it works..
    not why.. just thought I should say it :P

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