Whether GOD exists or not – is quite an engaging issue. And I believe, the search for the answer saw fierce debates in the past among the two sides – theists and atheists; of course here are people taking middle path- agnostics. Thanks to the Instablogs members to retrace the BIG question unto the answer once again!
Anything one writes on this issue would be tantamount to taking some side. I need to ask why someone needs to invoke ‘god’ at all in the events of life and living? Does that help? If so, then further questions may not arise and all the debates do end here. Indeed, god is for believers. The non-believers should not have any problem in that as long as that does not pose any threat to the other camp and do not put hindrance to the progress of life. However, human being created the concept of god that is for sure –who else? Animals of course can not and a self consistent argument proves that the concept of god is not ‘god given’. But the imagination of us human beings are limited by our own knowledge of the time; god was ‘discovered’ in the infinite past when mankind were busy with just hunting and gathering. Our great great…forefathers imagined or designed god in the way they could be able to think. So in a way ‘god’ is a primitive concept. Our civilization advanced and our knowledge grew exponentially so our science and technology. But the concept of god did not change much as the believers have been ever happy to have the primitive idea. With the advent of all sorts of achievements of mankind, we got to know more and more about our limitations - on the extent of the universe, the birth of it, the life and death of any biological system as well as stars and so on. The Nature, which we keep on discovering and deciphering, never ceases to amaze us. The mysteries unfold as we keep on overcoming our limitations by another. However, that does not mean we may place the burden of our ignorance to the concept of God and then halt. The religions are only the kind of belief systems. And then all sorts of practices are made associated with in the name of god and religions: spirituality and some such things.