Does God really exist? The generally accepted and only answer of science is, “No.” Despite the conception that this may be a simple, straight forward question, the question is not as simple or as straight forward as it seems. The answer “No” is based on the belief that we know what God is.
For example, if we believe that God is a red car, we can confidently say that red cars exist or that red cars do not exist. We have defined the term “God” and agreed (or disagreed) on the definition and once defined, we can move on to addressing the answer to the question (or finding a definition we can agree on.) Unfortunately, nowhere is the issue of God so easily addressed.
Most people are indoctrinated to believe that God is some type of superhuman being, so most people take one side or the other on that issued when dealing with God and then address that issue. If the issue has been properly addressed and God is a superhuman being, then one side is correct and the other side is wrong. However, if God is not a super human being, then both sides are wrong and the issue has not even been addressed.
My take on this issue is that God is not a super human being and so those who “answer” the question of God's existence by responding to the matter of a super human being have inadvertently managed to ignore the question.
ADAM KADMON
The Christian, Jewish and Islamic view of God as a superhuman being probably arose from the Kabalistic concept of God as Adam Kadmon, the Primordial (but non-existing) Man, the first being to emerge when the Cosmos was created. Although the idea of Adam Kadmon is common to Bible based religions, similar ideas can be found in Hinduism. In Kabalistic traditions, Adam Kadmon came from the Godhead, but the body of Adam, the "Sefiroth" or "pillars", make up the Cosmos.
While this is an interesting notion, it still personifies God (makes God like man instead of making man in the image of God, that is, deifying man) and serves as an attempt to explain the inexplicable while simultaneously serving as a means to combine the matter and immaterial forces of Nature and the Universe, but it is a fairy tale.
No such being exists, or rather, no such being could exist because the state of being a being places restrictions upon that entity that are not supposed to be attributes of God. It is like saying that we are like bacteria in a larger being, which may even be true, but if it is, that greater being is also subject to God. Atheists may assume that I have just copped out, but to the bacteria within our bodies, the atoms, molecules and cells are like large (from their perspective) solar systems, galaxies and nebula.
And so, I will yield to others on that point but not without stressing that if we are but bacteria in the body of a greater being, that being is also subject to God (a Greater Force).
GOD AS BEING OR GOD AS A FORCE
If God is not a super human being, then what is God? Far be it from me to point out that we are now right back at our starting point of defining God. Perhaps the best starting point to answer this question is to address the supposed qualities of God and then to determine if such a Thing even could exist.
Although we may not agree as to exactly what God is, most believers generally agree as to the central qualities and characteristics of God. God is supposed to be Omnipotent (All-Powerful), Omnipresent (All Pervasive/All Present/Exists Everywhere and Everywhen) and Omniscient (All-Knowing). What, if anything, could possibly fit that description? First, the description itself rules out the possibility of any kind of being, whether human or superhuman and thus reinforces our previous conclusion. What is left? The answer is a Force.
Therefore, it is most likely that God is a Force, an All-Knowing, All-Powerful, All-Pervasive Universal Force that exists Everywhere and Everywhen. The True "Primordial Man" is not a man at all, but a "Primordial Force." Science actually has evidence to support this notion. The evidence was obtained when the "thing" that is probably the soul was discovered and observed in the 1930s.
That work demonstrated that the fields, called the "L-field", make up living things. These L-fields are influenced and embraced by the greater fields of space. This is very interesting since it would explain a number of notions common to religion, one being that man, in fact, all living things, being small fields (L-fields) actually are made in the image of God, a "greater field of space" or the Ultimate Field of Space.
