THE EXPLANATION OF MEANINGFULNESS OF THE UNIVERSE
Belief in God-ordained Universe
AMONG many aspects of the debate over the existence of God, one relates to the meaningfulness of the universe. Belief in God is not only the explanation of the existence of the universe, but belief in God also makes the universe completely meaningful. Disbelief in God means that this universe will have a meaningless end, while believing in God means that the universe will eventually reach a meaningful end.
The concept of justice and injustice is innate in man. Man is born with a desire to be rewarded for living his life according to the principles of justice, and to be punished for adopting the method of injustice. This natural urge can find fulfillment if we believe that the universe has been created by God. There is no answer to the fulfillment of this natural requirement in the theory that denies the Creator of the universe.
Every human being is born with an ocean of desires within him. In today’s world, fulfillment of these desires is not possible. In the theory of ‘universe without God’, man is destined to have a tragic end and his natural desires will never be fulfilled. But in the theory of ‘universe with God’, there is a possibility that man will find the perfect satisfaction of his desires in the post-death stage of life.
The Consciousness of Time
The study of human psychology shows that man is a time-conscious
creature. His sense of time is divided into the present and the future.
However, it is a fact that every man gets to live only in the present.
Every man, without exception, dies in despair of an unfulfilled future.
He utilizes his present for a better future, but in his limited lifespan, he
fails to achieve the better future and leaves this world in despair.
An Internet search to find out the names of great people who became
depressed in their last years and died in a state of depression leads to
quite a lengthy list. One can go to the search engine and see this list
under the title ‘Risk factor Depression’. Thus, man’s natural urge can be
fulfilled in the theory of universe with God, but there is no answer to
this question in the theory of universe without God.
The Principle of Pairs
A study of the universe reveals that everything here has been created in
pairs—pair of negative electric particles with positive electric particles,
male and female in the fruit of the tree, male and female in the animals,
and man and woman in humans. This is a universal law. Everything
here complements itself with its partner.
In this sense, human life must have a pair, that is, a perfect life after death must be the pair of an imperfect life before death. Human life has its complementary pair in the theory of the universe with God. In the theory of universe without God, this complementary element does not exist.
The Failure of Idealism
All philosophers and thinkers have considered
the present world to be eternal. Their idea
was that in this present world, they would
one day create the world they cherish. The
concepts of Ideal Society, Ideal State, and
Ideal System were born from this idealism. All
such thinkers remained enamoured by these
concepts till their very end.
For people, the culmination of civilization was realization of this human dream. After the industrial feats, people thought that they would finally reach the destination where they could build their paradise in this present world. However, this idea proved to be completely false.
In the theory of the universe without God, man is destined that his natural desires will never be fulfilled, but in the theory of the universe with God, man could find the perfect satisfaction of his desires in the post-death stage of life.
End of the World
After studying the laws of nature, the founder of modern science,
Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1727) predicted in 1704 that the present world
would end in 2060. (The Times of India, June 18, 2007) Based upon pure
observations, scientist all over the world are now stating that as a result
of global warming, the end of the world has become certain. Further
evolution of civilization is not possible here at all.
Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, was first published in 1970. Alvin Toffler had predicted that the world is moving from an industrial to a super-industrial age. The next era of civilization will be the era of complete automation. The push-button culture will progress to the point that everything will start happening automatically. But the problem of global warming arrived with the message of end of history, instead of culmination of history.
This predicament of human history is undoubtedly the biggest question of today. A satisfactory explanation can be found only in the theory of universe with God. From the point of view of ‘universe without God’, a satisfactory explanation for this question is entirely impossible.
The certain annihilation of the world human inhabits today is undoubtedly the biggest question of today. A satisfactory explanation can be found only in the theory of the universe with God.
Such examples clearly prove that there is a great void in the theory of universe without God. If this theory is followed, a very meaningful universe seems to end in an extremely meaningless end.
The theory of universe with God is completely devoid of this flaw. Believing in this theory means a meaningful culmination of the meaningful universe. This fact is a strong proof for the theory of universe with God; it completely satisfies demands of both reason as well as logic.