An Explanation of Our Attempted (and ultimately failing) Explanation of God

How do you prove Gods existence in scientific terms?
First off, I want to say that you can’t. There will always be an explanation for the Divine. I present you with a burning bush, you present combustion and carbon release to me. I call it the Holy Spirit, atheists call it endorphins. It’s a never ending cycle. So allow me to present my answer in a story, which i will explain after I have presented it.

In a book called Flatland there is a particularly illuminating passage. I will paraphrase it from two different perspectives.

First, the Dot.
A dot was sitting in his den, enjoying the fire. All of a sudden, a small circle appeared in the middle of his floor. Perplexed, he watched from a distance. Slowly, the circle grew. It kept growing, threatening to take up the entire space of his den. The dot grew more and more concerned, as he could not explain what was happening. At the peak, right when the circle threatened the most, it began to shrink again. Just as quickly as the circle appeared, it shrank and disappeared.

Now, the Sphere
The sphere was passing through a plane, which happened to be two dimensional. He went through the plane, which had a square drawn on it and a rather timid looking dot, and continued on his way.

We are the dot, God is the sphere. Without overdoing the analogy, we are incapable of understanding God, as He is (in this case) in an entirely different dimension. So we are intimidated by Him, and concoct explanations for the phenomenal. The complexity of life is due to Darwinism. The existence of a universe is due to the Big Bang. Something different, which has an easy (yet non thorough and incomprehensible) answer (God did it, its a sphere) is turned into something ridiculously complex (atoms collided in random order which created life, the circle was absorbing water causing an expansion) because we fear the truth, and the fact that we cant truly explain the truth.

So in conclusion; God exists on a separate dimension than we do. We cannot interpret His attempts at communication, so we simply redefine them using “science”. Just because God does not communicate to us using our empirical definitions, it does not mean He does not communicate. We just have to quit looking for it through modernist scientific lenses, and look with our spiritual eyes.

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