Is there a God?

(Note : To all who believe in GOD, please do not get offended I respect your belief, the following post is a citation from an article by Davide Andrea, so please no hard feelings, you always have the option of leaving this page anytime - thankyou.)

So Is there a God? Does it matter?
No, it doesn't, other than the fact that it's such a big deal to so many people. So why bother? Well, spectator sports fascinate many people, even though they are so inconsequential; so please forgive me if I waste effort on this question. Consider it a hobby of mine.

Let me say here that I am not a scientist, nor a theologist, nor a philosopher. My education of these matters has many holes. While I believe that everything I express here has been stated before, I'd be hard pressed to come-up with specific references.

Could humans experience a non existent God?
I am going to use 2 analogies to show how it's possible that
a) God (as normally defined) doesn't exist, and
b) humans experience God and talk as if it existed.

The first analogy is a well known optical illusion. Take two identical lines:



Their length can be made to look different by adding arrow ends:



We know that the lines are equally long, but we feel that the top one is longer. We recognize that our brain is fooled into thinking that the top line is longer, even though we rationally know they are both the same, and we are simply amused by that fact.

Similarly, you may know that there is no God, and yet experience it. You could decide that your brain is fooled into thinking that there is such as thing as "God", even though you rationally know there's no such thing, and be simply amused by that fact.

The second analogy is the expedient of stating that the sun raises from the East and sets in the West. We know that the earth is not flat, and we know that it rotates around the Sun. Yet. we don't think twice about the terms "sunrise" and "sunset". These expressions are left over from a simpler time when people didn't understand astronomy. We keep on using these expressions because are very ingrained in our culture; and if we came-up with physically accurate expressions, they would be a mouthful.

Similarly, if one day we were to prove that there's no God, we'd still use the word "God" as an interlocution ("God you look good!") and as a Creator ("God's creatures"). These expressions will remain from this simpler time when people don't understand the true nature of God. We'll keep on using these expressions because they will remain ingrained in our culture, and because physically accurate expressions will be too complex to use in everyday language.

So, the possible absence of God doesn't preclude us from experiencing it. And God would remain in our culture even if its existence were disproved.

So far, I didn't disprove the existence of God. I simply showed that it's possible that God doesn't exist, despite our experiences and our culture.

Now, in the next post I will state a theory that would allow the non-existence of God yet explain how humans experience God.