Does God Exist? Does Science Know?

Someone once said something to the effect of "if you set a monkey in
front of a piano for a long enough time, it would eventually be able to
randomly plink the keys to come up with the "Moonlight Sonata"."

Statistically, that may be true...just as, statistically, you might be able to
jump out of a flying airplane and survive, but no one in their right mind
would attempt it without a parachute.

And, inductive reasoning would lead you to deduce that it was impossible
for a monkey (or team of monkeys) to invent the piano...or to come up
with written music to memorialize the sonata for others to reproduce and play.

It is logical to deduce that it would take a "higher" form of "being" or
"intelligence" or "life" to bring such complicated and analytical creations
to fruition.  Lo and behold, humans evolved, and the impossible became
possible.

But, if that monkey were listening to the "Moonlight Sonata" come over a
speaker, and had just a glimmering of intelligence to recognize that it was
impossible for him to create such a beautiful sound, wouldn't it be logical
for him to attribute it to "God", or "Allah", or some other being with a
capacity for creation far beyond his own?  And wouldn't he be right?

Enter our scientists today.  For generations we have been studying the
nature of the world and universe around us.  For generations, we have been
breaking the world down beyond atoms into smaller and smaller
particles, yet they all can be explained as existing logically under the
rules of mathematics, gravity, mass, etc.

For generations, we've been recognizing that the universe is much larger
and expansive than we ever imagined, yet this can be explained logically
under rational scientific rules.  We can mathematically plot travel to other
worlds and back. 

But, for all of our scientific breakthroughs, what we have really found is
that there is rhyme and reason to the universe, and that we can expand
our knowledge by studying and using the laws of nature.

We're still at the stage of the monkey listening to the "Moonlight Sonata"
and wondering how, or why, or from where, did it come.  We have enough
intelligence to study how such a complicated, amazing, logical creation as
the universe operates, but not enough intelligence to comprehend how, and
why, it came into existence before we were here to create it.

Just as Man is the higher form of life than a monkey, isn't it logical to
attribute a higher form of Being than Man to have created the universe before
Man existed?

Perhaps it takes inductive reasoning rather than deductive reasoning to reach
this conclusion.  But, until our scientists can (1) show us how to create something
from nothing, and (2) can show us not just that all the random things and places
in the universe follow logical laws of nature, but why and how those laws
came into existence, what other logical explanation is there?

Actually, as more and more of our scientists find that the universe follows rational
and logical laws, the more it would lead a logical person to believe that such a
system had to have been designed.  It would be next to impossible to happen
in a haphazard manner.

Just as a monkey cannot comprehend what a human can do, a man cannot
comprehend what a higher form of life (or being) can do.  Eventually, we
may evolve to a higher level of understanding, but, at present, the best we
can do is induce that there must be that higher level.

As hard as that may be for a proud, "I'm the center of the universe", human
to admit, it makes sense that there is a higher power.

We cannot know what that higher level is, but it's logical that
there is such a level.  Whether we call that level God, Allah, Nature, the
Spirit of Life, or some other name doesn't matter.  

We can argue about what that higher level expects or asks from us
(maybe something, maybe nothing), but to achieve happiness and
understanding in life, one must first start from an understanding of one's
place in the big scheme of things.