The Answerer

Q.117

‘Does God exist?’ and ‘How do we know God is real?’

Yes, I believe the evidence is all around us if we care to stop and think about it seriously.

Our ‘Blue Planet’ spins around once a day at 1,500 km/hr to give us night and day, it travels around the sun once a year at 30km a second, in its own orbit, and it tilts at 23 degrees as it spins to grant us winter, spring, summer and autumn. And – this is very important – we (our earth) are just the right distance from the sun (150,000,000 Km). Very convenient for growing things like millions of tonnes of food crops, chicken, fish, beef for burgers, etc. so we don’t get hungry. And, according to ‘The Galaxy song’ our Milky Way galaxy goes round (orbits) every 200 million years.

Phew! I did not know that!

BUT our Sun will only last another 2,000,000,000,000 years and then it will give a big ‘POUFFFF’ and the bits will go off to form some other sort of star. And…none of these planets and stars has a string like a Yo-Yo to keep them in orbit. Gravity, just gravity holds ’em all… just gravity in all of in their 400,000,000,000 individual orbits. Our galaxy, The Milky Way, has 400b. stars. From a Big Bang? I think not- God made it!

We humans enjoy music because, and unlike animals, we can dream or imagine things. We can make a grand piano, a clarinet, a trumpet and then compose and write music to play on those creations.(Joke: Elephants sound like a trumpet... because they can’t play a guitar.)

So that you can hear music in our wonderfully created ears…we are given minds to dream up ways of delivering music in a concert hall, your home, or your ear, while out walking. (Do please look out for busses while walking – they’re big and can flatten you). Humans can also dream or imagine, stuff like lasagne, ice-cream, pizza, chocolate, Black Forrest cake, and meat pies, and apple pies…and then set up gymnasiums to help us lose the extra weight by paying to work it off! Animals have none of those pleasures. Only humans, made in the image and likeness of God, can imagine, and make such things.

I do think that when God made little girls He did an excellent job. How would we manage without them, boys?

Humans are – this bit is scary – given the choice to do good, or to do evil things to other people. Animals are not given choices like that. Animals only kill to eat, to feed their young and protect their territory. Animals do not go to war; humans do. I think God would like all humans to be peaceful human beings, but sadly we are not. And greedy humans insist on cutting down forests of trees to make money. I think we should cut down a lot less trees and live much more simply by not buying so much ‘Stuff’. That was a bit long! Sorry.

I must mention The Ten Commandments. It is the basis of this ‘Christian’ nation, Australia (yes, Australia does have its faults). From the Ten Commandments we have ‘The rule of law’ i.e. police, judges, juries, jails, and a whole lot more. Maybe that is the reason so many people want to come here – or any country where the law is based on the Ten Commandments.

I have to mention butterflies, birds and flowers … just beautiful I say, and created by a loving God.