A Little Room for God

I do not believe in God. I sincerely doubt I ever will. There are two main reasons:

1) I have no evidence of God

Some people assume Atheists actively deny the existence of God. That something must have convinced us that there is no God. In my case this is not true. In fact it's the opposite. Nothing has shown me that there is a God. If no one had ever told me that there is a God, I wouldn't know to even consider it.

2) I have no need of God

I can be happy with myself and my life, and I can explain the world around me, without the need of a god. Science and math can explain the entire universe, everything that happens or will happen or has happened. And I do not feel any emptiness or void in myself that needs to be filled with a supernatural being.

But am I right?

I think so. But I am scientist enough to acknowledge that I may be wrong. I may be crazy. Do crazy people know they are crazy? If I were crazy, how could I trust my perception of the world? It might be completely off.

Or maybe I am defective. Maybe most people that claim to feel the "presence" or God are right, and I just lack the ability or the sensitivity.

Maybe we as humans, as objects in the physical universe, can only interact with other physical objects. There could be infinite other entities occupying the same space in the universe that we are simply unequipped to perceive. We can only rely on our 5 senses.. what if there are things outside those senses? Can you prove there are not particles in the universe that don't reflect light, occupy volume, or exert electromagnetic, gravitational, or strong or weak atomic forces? No, you can't. There would be no way for us to detect them.

Lastly, there is the question of Why. Why is there matter and energy and time and space? I don't mean that there is necessarily some purpose to them, but there has to be some explanation. We are made of atoms. Atoms are made of particles. Particles are made of quarks. Quarks are made of energy. Energy is... what? How does it exist? What explains it? Where did it come from? It is said that energy is a basic property of the Universe, that it just is. This however, is just as ridiculous an argument as stating that "God just is." There atheists and theists meet a common obstacle.

It is there, at this most basic question, that we define the difference between theists and atheists. Theists would believe that at this level there was a conscious, powerful intelligence that created energy. An atheist would say that it was an unconscious physical happening. There is no way to prove either, because any explanation of either would need to be further explained ad infinitum. Where did this god or physical force come from and what is it?

And so, I will admit that even in my worldview, there is a room for the possibility of God. I just choose to believe in the less fantastic of two equally impossible realities.