By: Mahdi
Since the beginning of rational philosophy, some of the most difficult questions that perturbed mankind were the big questions; who are we? Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? What is meant by Divine intelligence and is there really a creator behind all these creations?
Even great minds could not give a sufficient answer to all these questions. These curiosities eventually led
us, humans, to the ultimate question: ‘Does God really exist or it is a mere philosophical assumption? After the birth of logic as a subject, which most likely took place in the 5th century BCE, people came up with new thoughts to answer such questions.
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a renowned philosopher who gave five established ideas and wrote about 8 million words just to prove that God exists. One of the most famous arguments in his thesis Summa Theologica for confirming God’s existence was “because there is a motion, there must be a first unmoved mover and this is God”. Even a believer of some sect or religion cannot give an appropriate answer although he or she may believe in Divine intelligence.
The most agreeable answer which was given by a scientist, Fred Hoyle in his novel “The Black Cloud” was, the human brain does not have that much capacity to think or sense the being of God because the medium of thinking or understanding God is different from ours. Stephen Hawking also tried to answer these questions in his last and final book Brief Answers to the big questions. But after reading the book one emerges no wiser, the same questions keep haunting. Then, how do we satisfy our curiosity regarding such big questions?
