Does God Exist?

             The question of a higher power has been one that humankind has been trying to answer for ages. Is the universe a collection of random products of other random events? Or is there order and structure to it, suggesting a created universe? Many academics and laypersons have tried to prove the existence of a God one way or another. The problem with trying to prove there is a God, is that if a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. I argue that God does exist and that there is proof, if not scientific, that He does.
             My first supporting argument for this fact is that throughout history, in all cultures of the world, people have been convinced that there is a God. Whether that God has taken the form of Buddha, Allah or any other name, it is still inherently the same concept. That we are created by something bigger than all of us. Has this been some sort of mass hysteria? I think not. How is it possible that billions of people all over the world, through past and present have believed in essentially the same thing without scientific facts that it exists? Billions of people, who represent diverse sociological, intellectual, emotional, educational makeups all came to the same conclusion that there is a Creator. "Anthropological research has indicated that among the farthest and most remote primitive people today, there is a universal belief in God. And in the earliest histories and legends of people all around the world, the original concept was of one God, who was the Creator. An original high God seems once to have been in their consciousness even in those societies which are today polytheistic."1.
             Secondly, the complexity of our earth and universe suggests a very detailed design. Consider the planet we live on, Earth. It is the perfect size. Its size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only exten...

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