Belief in God

             "Belief in God can never be rationalised"
             For centuries the enigma of God's existence has plagued mankind, and society has seen many philosophers and wise individuals attempt to argue the case in both directions. I, myself have been raised as a Christian, and over this time I have been careful to always find just, and believable cause for statements fed to me before believing them. For many such statements I have succeeded in my search for a viable explanation, thus justifying them to myself and permitting myself to believe them. I like to think that I would not simply follow the Christian faith because the belief has been imposed upon me from childhood but that I would believe in God's existence because I have myself examined both sides of the argument and formed my own opinions on the matter. I choose to live by the quote of Hume himself who said that "A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence". While Hume argued that we were significantly lacking in evidence to support a belief, I would argue that in conjunction with this quote, how can we not believe?
             Let me first begin with one of the most well known atheistic arguments, the argument of creation. Atheists would argue that science has provided them with sufficient evidence of the natural evolution of the world to disprove the belief that the earth and everything in it was created by a greater being. Using this very evidence, I would argue from a purely scientific perspective, the exact opposite.
             The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created" and that is a concise statement of the atheist's belief. The way we decide whether the atheist is correct or not is to see what science has disco...

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