Human foible to question existence of God

PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte is not the first person to challenge the existence of a divine creator or God, “I’ll resign if anybody can prove God exists” ( Sunday Star, July 8).

People like him think God’s existence can be proven in the science lab, much like water can be proven to be a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. Human beings are trying hard to use their logic to analyse the spiritual domain. They treat God as an object which can be proved to exist or not to exist.

But the fact is God is supernatural. If God can be proven to exist or not to exist in the science lab, then God would not be worth worshipping since He would be just one of the many elements in this physical world.

True enough, there are things that make non-believers think God is stupid, like the concept of original sin. But who would deny that all human beings are innately evil or sinful?

Despite the human denial of the existence of God, the mystery of the whole universe does indicate that there is an unseen and all-powerful hand behind it.

So don’t say God is stupid; we human beings may be the stupid ones for failing to realise that for everything to happen there must be a cause.

Stating that the universe just came into being without a creator is already against scientific principles. Scientists tell us that not even an atom can be created by human beings. All the atoms that are in existence have already been created. Scientists can put things together in various forms but they cannot add to this universe one new atom.

So, who put all these atoms in place at the very beginning?