How can there not be a God?

It blows my mind sometimes to think that people honestly believe that there is no God, especially those in the sciences. How can they say such a thing? I mean, just look around you? Can't you tell that someone had to create such marvelous things? I mean, we, in the little knowledge that we have acquired over the centuries, are just able to explain how some things are, but never has there been the discovery of how to create things or why they are here.

I had a really great conversation with some friends yesterday and the consensus that was reached on these final points is that scientists stopped asking the why. They've just dived into the how, but completely overlook the 'why.' By ignoring that something, or rather someone, does not exist doesn't mean that someone does not exist. How is it any different with science? Being unable to explain the cause of such great phenomena in the world, such as the color of flowers, the songs of birds, the creativity and complex nature of man, the beginning of the Big Bang (of all things, if we want to go into the evolution argument) and ignoring the fact that something had to set it all in motion, doesn't mean that that something, the root of all things, does not exist. If anything, science should prove that something exists, had to exist, that is above all that we comprehend and can understand, that was able to set all these things marvelous things of the world into motion until our own creation.

One of the guys who was in our group spoke with me for a while longer about how science does recognize that there is something bigger, even though it is just putting the idea aside, and that it is ultimately beginning with the physicists. He told me that the order of most agnostic to least agnostic/believers goes essentially in this order: sociologists>psychologists>scientists (biologists, chemists, etc.)>physicists. Essentially, if sociologists can't explain something, they'll say to go to the psychologists, because they will know. If psychologists say they can't explain something, they'll say go to the scientists, the chemists and biologists, science can explain it. Lastly, if biologists and chemists can't find the answer, they'll say go to the physicists because they know more of the 'small world' and all those laws, etc. But then, when we get to the physicists, they have no one to turn to for answers and will find themselves saying that there is no way they can explain what they know, ie: the laws, the forces at different levels of magnification (macro versus micro versus atomic) and that in essence there is something about the universe that they cannot possibly try to explain (no law, no reason) and thus there must be something else to turn to, something greater, something bigger than ourselves. Who can that be?

To do a more simpler analogy, I heard that it was once said that it would be impossible to convince someone looking at a marvelous painting in a museum that in fact there is no such thing as an artist who created that painting. Sounds silly, right? Of course it would be impossible to convince someone of such a thing. The painting is right in front of them, someone had to paint it. There must be an artist. Duh! Right? Well, what is this world we are in? Isn't it more complex than a painting? Isn't it more colorful, more vivid, more apparent that it was created, than looking at a simple painting in a museum?

Similar analogy (also one I heard at a conference). You were on a CaribbeanCruise and suddenly there is a large storm. The boat begins to sink and people begin to pile onto lifeboats. A group of you, say 4, get onto one boat and get separated from the group. You float all night into the next day and about midday you wake up to find that you are on the shore of a deserted island. The island is fairly small and after the group has been on it for a while, they've walked from one side of the island to the other, takes about all day, only to find that there are no people, but there are some interesting findings. One guy comes up to the group to show that he found an arrowhead. "Wow!" you say, "There must have been some old tribes here." Thinking all would agree they look at you funny and say, "How can you know that?" You don't respond, but then one group member says, "It's just a rock that has been eroded after time. It must have fallen from a rock long ago, landed in the ocean, and been shaped by the waves to look like an arrow. We can't know for sure that someone made it or that there was human life here on this island. It doesn't prove anything." "Ok," the group says, and you just go along with it.

Another group member comes and takes the group to part of the shoreline nearby. There the group sees a beautifully fashioned canoe, tattered but clearly visible, with a ragged rope tied to one end. "Wow!" you say, "Now this surely means there must have been people living on this island. It's a canoe!" You think the group would surely agree with you on this, but no, they say, "How do you know?" Again, the same mad responds saying, "I think it is just a piece of log that fell from a tree, and like this rock which looks like an arrow, it must have been tossed by the sea and beat until it made the form of a canoe over time. I mean, this island could have been left alond for thousands of years, so time would have been enough to form this log into something that seems like a canoe." The group begin to nod their heads yes and again agree with this man. It must have just been shaped with time and it just looks like a canoe, but it is still no proof that man lived on this island. There is no explanation for the rope, this point is just ignored. You don't say anything and just go with the group.

Lastly, the third individual also made a discovery. She found on the seashore on the other end of the island the letters, "S" "O" "S" laid neatly on the beach about 50 feet from the shore. Now, at this point you think to yourself, surely the group will agree with me that at least there were people on this island at some point. So you say, "Wow! S O S, well at least we can say that some people were on this island at some point to write those letters. I guess we can hope that this island is known, so that people can find us." Surprisingly, you get confused looks and the group collectively say, "You can't say that!" You don't respond, but again the same man says, "You must be confused, this also is just what has been shaped over time. You can't say that anyone with any form of intelligence like us could have written these things down. It is simply the formation of stones in the beach which over time were swept onto the shore to make the appearance of what we understand to be letters. You can't say for certain that someone intentionally meant to write down the letters S O S in the sand. It is just a matter of time and how time has shaped these things to look as they are today." At this point you give up and don't know what else to say to this rather ignorant group, at least that is what you think. Then again, why is it that only you can see the seemingly obvious answer to the things discovered, that is, that someone 'created' these things, and yet they can't? Are you the one that is ignorant and crazy? Did time just shape these rather simple things into being?

Okay, so after reading this little anecdote, you may be thinking, well duh! This story is just ridiculous. But why is it so ridiculous? It is ridiculous to say that an arrowhead was shaped by itself over time, but it is not ridiculous to say that at one point fish began to grow legs and walk on land until they became mammals. It is ridiculous to say that a canoe would shape itself over time, but it is not ridiculous to say the Big Bang just happened with nothing to set it in motion. Lastly, it is ridiculous to say that three letter, SOS, formed themselves on a beach over time, but it is not ridiculous to say that DNA had no master creator behind it to ensure that man becomes a man, animal become animal, that our bodies can mend wounds physically, by itself, if we get hurt without anyone doing anything or that we can learn, memorize, and discover things as we encounter them in life, with no explanation as to how the brain works exactly and how it is so different from other creatures (no, we cannot be compared with an ape which a person, mind you, not a fellow ape, teaches, yes teaches, another great gift we have, how to communicate with the simplest of language in knowing how to push buttons or copy and match sign language signals). WHY ARE WE SO DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER CREATURE ON EARTH? Aren't we special? Something happened that seperated us from the fishes swimming in the seas, the birds flying in the air, the apes living on trees. What happened? Why? We can't ignore these questions. Not for long. I just hope for that one day when people may be able to use the brain God gave them to finally stop their blatant ignorance, their idiotic stubborness in refusing to say, "Yes, there is a God." "Yes, we can't explain the beginning of our beginning." "Yes, someone had to set everything in motion, even the Big Bang, that not even science can replicate or explain." "Yes, I am special, I am different, I am important and was created for something grand." Why is this so difficult to say? Why are we being battered from saying we are unique when we are? The proof is right in front of us, every single day, every single rising of the sun, change of the season, birth of new life. Why?