CROWS NEST

It is good to see you again here in my crow's nest. Pull up a stool and pour yourself some coffee. I probably should have some tea available for you non-coffee drinkers. It is hard to please everyone. Kinda like our discussion about the existence of God that we started last time. You can't satisfy them all. Some contend that there is no God while others concede that there may be a god hiding out there somewhere, isolated and unknowable. For those who acknowledge the reality of God the question becomes who is He or She or It or Them. Let's look at each group individually.
Those who deny the reality of God have some valid points. Most representations of God show Him to be invisible and out of reach. We humans are used to being touched by those we love, but God has no body or form. How do you cuddle in the arms of something you can't touch? How do you know that He is listening to your prayers?
With all the chaos in this world whether it be in the volatility of nature, the warlike tendencies of man, or the randomness of pain and suffering some question that a God with any moral character would not allow such things to afflict His creation. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that there is no God.
The list of atheistic arguments have filled volumes of books but for space sake we will deal with these two points. Our society today depends on so many unseen, undefineable things. For instance, we can feel the wind, measure it, forecast how it will affect our picnic this Saturday, harness it for power, but we cannot see it. We know that in winter the wind is cold and in summer it is hot. Never are they reversed, not even in Florida. We plant crops based on this predictability. Yet, there are no wind atheists.
There are those who reject the idea of a simple (or complex) faith in that they cannot prove. Often they refer to the world of science and math supposing that both of these are based on proveable facts. Oh really? In my high school geometry class the teacher began the lesson on the first day by placing a small round mark on the chalkboard. He said, "This is a point. It has no dimension, shape, or definition. It is simply a point in space." After putting another undefinable, unexplainable point on the board he connected the two and said, "The shortest distance between two points is a line." Adding a third point and connecting all three he declared that this was a plane. He reviewed by saying that these were the basics for our course in plane geometry. From there we explored a series of proofs, axioms, and postulates to prove certain statements and conclusions about angles, triangles, rhombuses, and other weird forms. We proved things that were true but based on something unseen, undefineable and formless. Talk about blind faith.
Do we even need to talk about electricity? The root of the marvels of electricity is the theory of magnetism. Very intelligent people have studied this mysterious force for better than a hundred years and still cannot fully explain how or why it does what it does. Do you enter into a dark, warm house and refuse to turn the lights or the AC on because you cannot define the roots of electricity? So, you are not an electric atheist? Then would you refuse to concede that there is a God even if you cannot see Him or fully explain Him?
It seems that I am out of coffee and time. Come again and we shall look at sin and suffering. See you then