I can't take credit for the idea behind this blog post. I actually heard it on the radio, but it struck me as something cool that I wanted to share.

I've been following an old Bible school friend on Facebook with great interest. Since our Bible school days, he's changed his belief system quite a bit and now calls himself an "agnostic". I put that in quotes because an agnostic is someone who says that they don't really know what they believe, whereas this friend of mine is starting to turn into more of an atheist. It seems like every day He has a new quote on His wall about why believing in God is misguided and foolish.

The other day, I responded to one of his posts with a couple of reasons why I believe in God. I was hoping to be able to open a dialogue, but instead I received what I think was intended as an intellectual beat down. Some other folks who agree with my "agnostic" friend jumped on me my response like moths to a flame. They were bringing up a host of objections to my belief, including quotes by Carl Sagan and references to Quantum Physics. It seemed like they were trying to drown me in a sea of knowledge and show me that my flimsy belief would not float. Basically they were saying, "we are smarter than you and we don't believe in God, so neither should you."

Now, I do not argue with the fact that these guys have a lot of brains. I myself don't do much armchair reading on Quantum Theory. But simply being smart doesn't mean that you can write off the idea of an almighty God, because part of being truly smart means having the wisdom to admit that there are things you don't know.

I'm going to be really generous and say that the guys who tried to out think me on Facebook are so sharp that they posses 1% of all the knowledge available in the universe. I mean everything, all details of history, the number of stars that exist, every scientific discovery ever made...all of it. And these guys know 1% of that (in theory). That would be pretty amazing! I would not want to go toe to toe with someone like that in any kind of debate. Think of the knowledge that would flow from a person like that! But guess what, there is still another 99% to learn!

In all reality, probably the smartest person on the planet only knows .000000000000000001% of all the available knowledge in the universe. There is simply too much for one person or even a whole group of people to know! If that is the case, how can anyone say for sure that God does not exist! Isn't it possible that in the 99.99999% of knowledge that we don't know, there is room for a God who has a plan and purpose that we might not understand completely? How arrogant would you have to be to say that you have obtained all the knowledge in the universe and are 100% sure that there is no room for a creator?

I'm not saying that I can prove God's existence, because I don't think that is possible either. After all, the tiny fraction of knowledge I possess is not enough to even begin that undertaking. But I can at least admit that there are many things we don't understand as limited human beings. And if God does exist and is truly almighty, He is under no obligation to explain Himself to us. He is so far above our understanding that our finite human minds cannot even comprehend Him. So is it really "smart" and "intellectual" to deny the existence of God? Judge for yourself.