Does God Exist? - A Philosophical Inquiry

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The big question that is being dealt with here is whether God exist or not. In order to answer this
fundamental question other questions like where did you come from or Who We actually are?
What is our eternal purpose? What happens after we die? And answering all these questions is
fundamental to answering the big question regarding existence of god.
It is worth mentioning that before answering this question we need to understand our
philosophical predisposition. For evidence if a person is already a believer of the figures of that
nothing concrete can exist other than the natural world, that is there is no space for any
Supernatural existence, no earthly evidence can prove him wrong and in that case the question
regarding God's existence would itself become redundant. No evidentiary standpoint can be
utilised for answering this question since the contribution of God towards human life can also be
explained in the light of natural consequences. It is not because that we are aware what does
natural consequences could be, but because the existence of supernatural is itself a myth for
some people.
In this context, the perception of Dr Richard Lewontin, professor of zoology at the Harvard
University can be utilised. Identify that it is not the methodological or institutionalized
perception of science which force us to except the metrological explanation behind the earthly
phenomena. Quite contrastingly, our priori adherence to the material causes are what forces us to
investigate every occurrence or creation under the framework of few conceptualizations that
analyses everything under material explanations and perceptions, irrespective of whatever
counterintuitive, however mystifying the creation is to be uninitiated.
On the contrary, researchers like Wielenberg (2017), identify that if a person is neutral and is
free from any prior conception, regarding the view of the world as naturalistic or otherwise,
raising the question regarding the existence of god will be absolutely meaningful. in fact it would

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be the initiative step with the objective of a meaningful search for the ultimate truth. People
should be willing to answer this question from an open mind and then only our fundamental
potential of discovering the truth will be revealed.
Hence, if our investigation regarding the existence of god is launched with an open mind, we can
consider specific observations as we execute the search for a definite answer. Firstly,
astronomical discoveries have revealed beyond doubt that the whole universe had a beginning
rather there had been discrete and individual moment of creation. Again, as highlighted by Kraay
(2017), advancement of Molecular Biology has disclosed vast tracts of information that has been
included in the living cell and Biology has been able to decipher thousands of exquisitely
manifested machines at molecular level. This argument, leads us to conclude that encryption of
information needs Intelligence and constructing the same with such exquisite design requires the
brain of a designer.
We are all aware about the natural laws of the universe, but hardly had anyone wondered, where
these laws originated or what is the ultimate purpose served by these laws?
Mathematician calculated all odds against life arising from non life, in a natural syntax by means
of unintelligent procedures. The odds returned are all astronomical. In fact there is no surety that
life has evolved by natural means through unintelligent processes. Then again, if we argue that
life did not arise on earth by a chance, then how did it arise after all? (Vallicella, 2018)
People belonging to every race, culture, sex or age group irrespective of intellectual level claims
that they have experienced glimpses of supernatural. We have come across prodigious accounts
of supernatural healing, answered prayer, other miraculous phenomena or prophetic Revelation.