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Reality - Its Static and dynamic aspects
Ultimate Reality
General
The Master begins the chapter with a profound observation that the great deal of controversy over the existence of God is not so much over proving or disproving His existence as it is about defining the Eternal Absolute in a satisfactory way. Religious scholars have advanced the various ‘logical proofs’ from different angles such as the Ontological- God has to exist because by definition He is perfect and the perfection has to necessarily include existence, the Cosmological-the infinitely vast cosmos with its myriad worlds displaying regularity and obeying laws such as the law of universal gravitation, law of conservation of energy and mass and so on cannot but have an originator and law giver that is God, the argument by design- the incredible complexity in creation pervaded at the same time by a wonderfully consistent order and purposeful functioning requires a knowledgeable and wise Designer Creator, the principle of sufficient reason which says there must be a reason why anything occurs and so on. But there are the scientific atheists who protest saying that there is no need to have a first cause and further the laws governing the Universe are inherent in Nature itself. It is not necessary to include God as part of the explanation of any phenomenon of Nature by way of the principle of parsimony and thus God becomes superfluous! The order observed could be in the very nature of things. However, the scientific atheist has no answer to the question how all these things have come about, how life originated from non-life, why the universe is the way it is and not any other way. Even the most modern and reasonably satisfactory theory of the Big Bang origin of the Universe which explains many astronomical observations, has more questions to answer than it can find answers for, such as why it occurred at the time it did, why the initial soup of elementary particles had the composition it had, the dominance of matter over antimatter said to have arisen due to a peculiar asymmetry and most glaringly what preceded the Big Bang in which time and space collapse as it were and all known physical laws get invalidated. If it is to be said that there was simply nothing then it will be self-contradictory because obviously something cannot come from nothing.
Again all these theories of physics do not give any account for the origin, existence and functioning of consciousness which faculty is obviously present in all these theorizing scientists and is the very foundation of their formulation of the theories! Despite its signal failure in answering the