The Science of God…
God starts where science ends or does she? Is Science a subset of God or vice versa or are they both the same and exactly equal (or completely unequal; God being an unfathomable concept). Irrespective of what is true, where is the proof? Once we reach the limits of our understanding or comprehension, rest is God. Is that true? Better still, does God exist? Is there any science behind God or is God just plain fiction.
Many have tried and failed to prove the existence of God. The kind of proof that the world recognizes: a phenomenon that can be reproduced under a certain set of conditions either inside or outside a laboratory. It is uncharacteristic to expect that God can be unravelled by a laboratory experiment and made to conjure on occasions. Even if a person finds God, how is he to show proof as the proof may be subject to scrutiny by individuals who have no respect for ‘experience’ related proofs of God. This, then makes it puzzling.
Most accept existence of God because either they have been taught to accept or they may have witnessed a miracle or they have experienced God or they have had made a conscious effort to show plain simple ‘faith’. Others who believe in spiritual laws of nature or universe or multiverse (depending on what one believes) may have a rational explanation of God. To many others, it is better to believe in God than not to believe. Belief itself being a powerful concept.
The simplest test for the existence of God is, the 5 Why’s process. In the normal 5 Why’s questioning process, the solution or the symptom to a problem comes out but in case of God, the answer is incomplete. This incompleteness points to 2 properties about God: something that cannot be understood and something that cannot be measured. In that God is quite similar to 2 things in the universe: knowledge and feelings. In Hinduism, Knowledge stands for Shiva and Feelings for Vishnu, while Brahma is the one who brings knowledge and feelings to create Man, who in turn embarks on a journey to measure time, space, matter, dark energy and everything else which is quite futile.
God is like the number 0, strong and powerful but ultimately ‘nothing’, meaning difficult to comprehend. At the other end is infinity, which is also ‘nothing’, meaning too difficult to comprehend. Is it possible that infinity and 0 could be one and the same — both signifying nothingness and a blank that is immeasurable and incomprehensible? Both infinity and 0, share same properties in that they are endless and have the power to encompass everything within themselves. This also has an abstract meaning: you can start from 0 and end up at 0 (as infinity takes you to nothingness). Thus, it works like a circle, signifying that it is simply impossible to comprehend God.
It will never be possible to prove or disprove the existence of God and the search for God is like what Swami Vivekananda said, ‘there is nothing false in the world, you go from one level of truth to another’. Thus, there is only truth and one truth, it is just how much we understand it. In the case of God, the more we uncover things, the smaller our ego becomes and the bigger our understanding is of how far we are from understanding her. Thus, in such a scenario, the mother of all generalisations and infinite steps towards the absolute truth holds out only one comfort i.e. God.
