Today, one of the links that caught my eye was a link that said "Do physicist believe in God?" I have no idea whether this was serious experiment, so enough sample was there or not, but the question caught me. And most of the physicist (in the video) replied saying that they don't believe in God because there was no proof for his existence. There was one who talked about some God sneezing and the universe coming in to existence. He said that he did not believe in such things. This video made me think.
I consider myself a smart person, and there was a time in my life I seriously considered becoming a physicist (when I was around 11 or 12). So I started shaping my thinking accordingly, this statement made me wonder what kind of belief I have for God.
Frankly I have wondered, about God's existence and have had detailed arguments and discussions with myself and with like minded friends and relatives. But then, I have always found it easier to believe that God exists and it makes it easier to concentrate when I give Him some form. But thinking about it from fables point of view. Fables about creation of universe. Fables that says universe was created by God sneezing, dancing, singing or whatever other stories, I can truly say that I do not believe in it.
But I do believe in the fact that some special force created this universe or n-number of other universe (if u believe in parallel universe), 'cos according to me, creation did not come in to existence one random bright sunny morning. There was some force (or were some forces) that triggered it. And I choose to believe that force as God.
In my religion, we have form of worship, where you pray to formless God, that God is the energy existing in the universe. So such form of worship sees God in everything and anything. Even in the form-ed-Worship, there is Goddess called Shakthi, we call her the primeval force. We believe that force was responsible for creation of universe and that force (or some version of it ) will be cause for destruction too.
That force is probably the reason for Big-Bang or it is the energy released when matter and anti-matter meet. It might be some unknown particle inside the atom that keeps it functioning or it be the dark matter. But whatever it is, it does exist and it has been the basic building block of the universe.
So, to me saying God does not exist is like saying the universe does not exist. I can not say that. Because I exist, which leads me to believe that universe does exist. We just haven't found the meeting point of religion and Science yet.
I think this quote from the famous physicist Carl Sagan clearly express what I feel about God:
ReplyDelete""The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity""
Like he said it is emotionally unsatisfying to pray to gravity, hence we have the concept of idol god or god in energy form I think