The Problem With God

The serious debate about the existence of God seems to have gotten started in the 20th Century.  Prior to the turn of the last century, His existence was hardly ever called into question. It was simply assumed that He existed. Then came major scientific achievements for which men took credit, as if they had been the creators, not the discoverers. Men discovered things which were there for millions of years but which were mysteries up until men started probing. In any case, the theory of evolution soon became a fashionable thing to expound.  There can be no question but that a thing cannot create itself, no matter how simple its structure. When someone can prove to me that a symphony which we attribute to Mozart or Beethoven or Bizet or Brahms or Shostakovitch, or anyone else, actually wrote itself, then I will stop believing in the existence of an all-powerful God. If I know that even the simplest children's book could not write itself, why bother with anything more complex? The DNA molecule of a human being is said to be exceedingly complex. Its code is very long, but then, it contains the instructions for the production of a human person. It's like a biological, living, computer chip. If that came into existence as a result of billions of years of trial and error, then we can say that a long row of 10,000 cars, all painted in ten different colors, with engines running, can line themselves up in an orderly and predetermined fashion, without any outside help. Ludicrous. The very thought that anything, whether living or inanimate, can come into being without outside guidance and purpose is silly beyond imagining. The problem with belief in God is actually moral. Evil is impossible to reconcile with God. So we doubt God. We cannot see God so we doubt God. We cannot imagine the magnitude of power that it takes to create a star or a solar system or a universe - power focused in one Being. It is simply beyond imagining. So, we doubt God. We cannot imagine a God who would watch horrible events take place on Earth without stepping in and doing something about it so we doubt God. A little girl gets run over by a truck and God knew ahead of time but He did not intervene. Does anyone know why? That is the problem. 

The Truth

It is true that the world's economy is today as vulnerable to a collapse as it was before the collapse of 2008. I am absolutely certain that world leaders tend to look relaxed about the situation because they all have contingency plans in case things go very, very sour. Are they insulated from hard times as rich people were during the Great Depression in the U.S.? Not if food becomes scarce - I mean very scarce. They would have to own huge storage freezers for that to be the case. Sorry. Weather catastrophes in the wrong places will put everyone at risk, not just me. Of course, I will try to store several sacks of lima beans and wheat flour. ...Several gallons of water, too. See how long that lasts.