Is there any proof for God’s existence?

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thank you the question is, is there any proof for the existence of God the word proof has multiple meanings and if we consider proof in terms of mathematical proof as in mathematics we prove this plus this is this or whatever that way we don’t have proof for even your existence or my existence if we consider proof in mathematical terms then most of the things that we understand intuitively that exist that we ourselves exist even those cannot be proven now there is in court cases for example, proof the proof is not mathematical the proof is inferential so if there are multiple concurring lines of evidence that point to a particular conclusion then that is considered to be a good enough evidence for say the culpability of a particular person so I’ll talk about several primarily four broad lines of thought which point to the existence of a super intelligent first is what is often called as the cosmological argument cosmological argument for the existence of god is that everything has to come from something if I have a 100 storey building the 100 storey is from the 99 storey the 99 is from the 98 and like this the building has to end somewhere there has to be a ground on which the building is built so we see everything in the world has a cause and everything in the world is temporary nothing in this world lasts forever even according to science the universe is not eternal so a chain of temporary things will need to rest in something which is non-temporary otherwise it will just not be possible it’s like a building which has no ground it will just collapse so everything has to have a cause and the cause of all causes by definition can’t have a cause so god is the by definition the cause of all causes so by this pure chain of logic we can understand that god is not a possibility of existence god is the precondition for existence that if god if the ground did not exist the building can’t exist so if god who is the cause of all causes did not exist then nothing would exist at all that’s a now each of these arguments can go elaborately I’ll keep it brief over here and if any of you want further elaboration on this you can ask further questions and I can elaborate on each of these arguments separately so this is a cosmological argument then there is also the moral argument moral argument means that all of us we are driven for survival so Darwin had the theory of survival of the fittest and we see that we are we human beings especially are driven not just by the survival instinct often the noblest the most inspiring acts that we do they are not driven by the imperative for survival when say the twin towers was collapsing firefighters went inside and tried to rescue people they knew if the tower collapsed they might die but they risked their lives this is actually not survival of the fittest it is sacrifice by the fittest this is actually if we were simply biological creatures why would we do something which would risk our survival and we don’t think of such a thing as wrong we think of such a thing as inspired so somebody’s child is drowning and somebody risks their life to leap into the water body and rescue that child we consider it noble so we have within us an innate sense of something which is right and something which is wrong and that is independent of the drive for survival so we risk our lives not everyone does it but there is a sense within us that there is something which is noble and which is not driven by the survival instinct so where did the sense of right and wrong independent of the survival instinct come from that points to a supreme source of morality a supreme being who has given us the sense of right and wrong and without a non material source at the material level the survival instinct would not make us do anything noble it will only make us do that risk which is which is simply for our survival third argument is what we could call as the coherence argument coherence argument means there are two parts in it first is that we see that things in this world are very intricate very delicate very artistic right from the way the cells function in our body to the way the atmosphere is balanced so that water from the ocean bodies comes to us as rains there is amazing level of balance within the universe scientists call this as anthropic principle that life would not have been possible if if there are hundreds or more than 100 factors like this which science has already found which indicate which have to be in a particular way for life to be possible so for example if the earth had not been tilted at 23 and a half degrees then the cycling of seasons would not have occurred and if that had not occurred the earth would have been either too cold or too hot for life to be possible so the point is that each of these factors each of these over 100 factors which researchers have they could have been there could have been any value the earth could have been tilted at 43 and a half degrees could have tilted at 3 and a half degrees why 23 and a half degrees this level of precision cannot be explained by chance suppose a gambling match is going on in that gambling match somebody tosses dice and it is their life that is at stake if it falls 6 they live if it falls anything else they die and they toss it once twice thrice each time it comes 6 it comes not once twice thrice but more than 100 times each time it comes 6 we can say this dice is not working normally there is something done by which it is falling 6 so like that for all these factors to work in a way that they are exactly conducive for what is necessary for our survival that indicates that these are not happening by chance but there is some plan involved in this and second aspect is atheism can’t atheism can’t explain the explainability of science the explainability of nature as it is discovered by science that means that if everything has come just by unguided natural processes then our brain is the result of one unguided process the world out there is a result of another unguided process so why is it that nature out there has an order which we can perceive and appreciate with our brain if our brain is just a lump of matter come together and nature out there is a lump of matter come together in another way so why is it that when a particle of matter falls down it follows a law and a law of mathematical precision f is equal to g m1 m2 upon r square so science offers explanations for the behavior of nature but the very explainability of nature requires an explanation so science in this sense the more science progresses the more science comes up with explanations the more that will mean that there is a greater requirement of the explainability for explanation so the explainability of nature requires an explanation and as India’s famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan he said that for me an equation has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God so in this way the cosmological the moral the coherence which we could say the anthropic reasoning the anthropic the anthropic principle and the correlation between the human intelligence and the natural order all these point strongly as evidences towards the existence of God