Does God Exist?
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Does God exist?
One of the most important questions we ever face is, �Does god exist?’ The conclusion you reach can affect your view of your family, work, money, morality and even life itself.
If asked, �Does God exist?’ many persons would reply by repeating what they have read or heard from others. However, you personally should give thought to the question. In his book Man, God and Magic, Dr. Ivar Lissner observes that a “fundamental difference between man and beast” is that “man is not content merely to sleep, eat and warm himself.” Man has a “strange and inherent urge” that can be called “spirituality.” Dr. Lissner adds that �all the civilizations of mankind have been rooted in a quest for God.’ So your coming to grips with the question, �Does God exist?’ is an evidence that you have not neglected an important attribute—your spirituality.
How could you go about determining whether there is a �maker and ruler of the universe, a Supreme Being,’ as one dictionary defines “God”? Well, reason indicates that if there is a �maker of the universe,’ there should be indications of its beginning, also evidence of design and order. In your examining whether there are such, we invite you to consider what biologists have found about life and what has been learned about our universe by physicists and astronomers using telescopes and space probes.
YOUR LIFE—IS CHANCE RESPONSIBLE?
Why not begin with yourself? Where did your life come from? True, it was passed on by your parents. But how did life on earth originate?
in an effort to produce life in a laboratory and thus explain how it began, chemists have sent sparks through mixtures of special gases. One result has been some amino acids (molecules of the sort that are the �building