Philosophy Question

Xiangdong Xiao

PHIL 190

08/28/2017

God does not exist

Recently, I am very interested in a question, the problem is “Does God exist”. This is a problem that very magically, and full of unknown, until now, no person has fundamentally explained the problem. If human want to discuss this question, human must understand the meaning of “God” and the “exist” of these two words, should be give them a specific definition. For thousands of years, there have been countless scientists, philosophers have discussed this issue, until now, people still explore this question. But with the passage of time, the development of science and technology, the answer to this question has appeared slowly: God does not exist. In the future, there will be more events and evidence to prove that God does not exist.

Premise one: God does not have a concrete image.

Up to now, no person has ever seen what God looks like, we can see God from a variety of movies and animations, and these God look like different, but in real life, no person sees God. The whole world you from different religions, different nationalities, different regions elected 100 people, you ask them this question, then you will get 100 God. We want to choose which God as our God in our question? So that God can not be perceived, and all of God is conceived by mankind. “I think therefore I am”(Descartes). Just like the idea of Descartes, this pen is there that I can perceive, so it exists, and God can not be perceived, so it does not exist. It was suggested that a human brain can not be seen, can not touch, whether it can be said that the human brain does not exist. The answer is no, we can now through a variety of science and technology to see our brains, so the existence of the brain can be perceived, it is exist.

Premise two: Who created God

Some people think that God created this world, God created everything in this world, all of us comes from God, God is omnipotent in the eyes of these people. As early as thousands of years ago, when the science and technology is not developed, there are many human can not explain things from nature, such as lightning, flame, and so on. They think that it is God's creation, the good thing is God's blessing to human, and the bad thing is God's punishment for human, Even our human beings are God's products, and God is the ancestor of all human. “Darwin asked questions of fancy pigeon and animal breeders as well as established scientists. At the zoo he had his first sight of an ape, and was profoundly impressed by how human the orangutan seemed”(Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Group). Darwin's use of science to prove that mankind is not created by God, his books clearly pointed out that the ancestors of human beings are apes, which is a big breakthrough. Darwin's doctrine refutes a point that God's existence, according to this theory, we can extend, God did not create mankind, God did not create everything around mankind, God did not create the world.

If God did not create all this, how did God appear? Did God be created? I think so, the creator of God is human, it is thousands of years ago our ancestors created God, then human beings in order to explain some things that can not be explained, so they created God, after the passage of time, making this Kind of theory continues to develop, and unlimited amplification. So God does not exist, man created God, this is why different places admire God different.

Premise three: Can God create a stone that he can not push by himself?

Some people think that God is omnipotent, omniscient, if God can not do things, then God is not God, and then can infer that God is not omnipotent, so God does not exist. Of course, this theory is contradictory, but in fact this theory exists its truth, we can jump out of this theory. Many people think that social development is God's push, “Modern science has repeatedly proved that only by physical science can explain most of the law of the universe, namely each step of the scientific progress, proves that the world is the materialism, rather than an imitation of god or any supernatural ability”(Capital: Critique of Political Economy). Marx's historical materialism well explain it, so we have more reason to believe that god doesn't exist, the human should believe science, with a scientific way to look at the problem.

My point is that god doesn't exist, although this problem does not have the best answer until now. I believe that this problem will get very good solution in the future, With the change of the era and the development of science and technology, atheism is more and more accepted by human, just like what Marx said, the economic basis decides the upper building and the upper building reflects the economic basis. Promote the development of society, change the world is not god, is human. Human should understand the following questions: What is God? Who created God? What is the value of God? Is God omnipotent?

Thousands of years ago human exclamation of the miracle of nature, to explain the phenomena and problems of the unknown, man created god, and then evolved into a kind of theory, but this theory is a cover for human ignorance, and ignorance, god doesn't exist, we should use the dialectical method to think about this question. Maybe now we can't get the answer, but one day, someone will eventually solve the problem, I think we should just stick to our idea.

works cited

Karl Heinrich Marx (1865). Capital: Critique of Political Economy.

Desmond, Adrian; Moore, James (1991), Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Group.

Descartes, René (1644). Principia Philosophiae.