How can we prove God exists? Despite the years of controversy that has faced this question, I have taken it upon myself to try and logically prove God. I've tortured my brain all week and the only conclusion I can come up with is, God exists because we can perceive beauty.
Our ability to know what is beautiful is a mystery. How can we look at a vast, foreboding dark sky and tremble as it canvas's the Earth? How do we take a bunch of different sounds and put them in such a way that it creates harmonies? Even self-proclaimed Atheists cannot help but wonder about the ambiguity of the universe.
What is Beauty?
Ancient Greeks recognized that beauty didn't just exist. They understood that beauty resulted from order. Much of Roman architecture came about from Greek concepts of shapes to achieve sound structures. They took simple shapes such as circles and rectangles and created magnificent structures. The early Greeks knew that beauty resulted not just from a simple shape; but,by the way they were organized and how they complemented each other. In that light, beauty doesn't just "exist" per se; it is created. It is order to a seemingly random array of mediums.
If looked at from that point of view, it is no wonder people relate the universe to God. That somehow, the stars and galaxies worked together in a way so that a planet was created that could sustain life. A place where cellular life could work in such a way to sustain itself and biological organisms could live off of each other.
Try and look at it in a different way. If a ship was out at sea, but it had no Captain to steer it, what do you think would happen to that ship? It would probably hit rocks and sink. So doesn't it makes sense that the universe has a Captain? Someone steering it in the right direction and giving it order?
An Atheist's Arguement
A common rebuttal to the theory of God and beauty is that God and beauty are subjective. That beauty can exist without God. We simply live in a universe in which beauty can be perceived. Let's imagine for a second that we lived in a universe in which we couldn't recognize it. Does that make things any less beautiful than they were before? The mountain scenery didn't change nor did the way the sun reflects off the water. Our ability to perceive beauty is not relative to beauty in itself. God can exist with or without our knowledge.
Despite that, we are given knowledge of beauty. Recognizing beauty is a direct reflection of God. We are granted the ability to recognize beauty so we have the ability to recognize God.
Our ability to know what is beautiful is a mystery. How can we look at a vast, foreboding dark sky and tremble as it canvas's the Earth? How do we take a bunch of different sounds and put them in such a way that it creates harmonies? Even self-proclaimed Atheists cannot help but wonder about the ambiguity of the universe.
What is Beauty?
Ancient Greeks recognized that beauty didn't just exist. They understood that beauty resulted from order. Much of Roman architecture came about from Greek concepts of shapes to achieve sound structures. They took simple shapes such as circles and rectangles and created magnificent structures. The early Greeks knew that beauty resulted not just from a simple shape; but,by the way they were organized and how they complemented each other. In that light, beauty doesn't just "exist" per se; it is created. It is order to a seemingly random array of mediums.
If looked at from that point of view, it is no wonder people relate the universe to God. That somehow, the stars and galaxies worked together in a way so that a planet was created that could sustain life. A place where cellular life could work in such a way to sustain itself and biological organisms could live off of each other.
Try and look at it in a different way. If a ship was out at sea, but it had no Captain to steer it, what do you think would happen to that ship? It would probably hit rocks and sink. So doesn't it makes sense that the universe has a Captain? Someone steering it in the right direction and giving it order?
An Atheist's Arguement
A common rebuttal to the theory of God and beauty is that God and beauty are subjective. That beauty can exist without God. We simply live in a universe in which beauty can be perceived. Let's imagine for a second that we lived in a universe in which we couldn't recognize it. Does that make things any less beautiful than they were before? The mountain scenery didn't change nor did the way the sun reflects off the water. Our ability to perceive beauty is not relative to beauty in itself. God can exist with or without our knowledge.
Despite that, we are given knowledge of beauty. Recognizing beauty is a direct reflection of God. We are granted the ability to recognize beauty so we have the ability to recognize God.
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