Why God is Unnecessary
The history of humanity is one of continuous, ongoing, unfolding discovery. What was dark and unknown yesterday becomes illumined and accessible in the light of progressive discovery. Many things that were profoundly mysterious to men of the past are now commonplace knowledge today. Many things that are mysterious today will likewise be revealed as the future unfolds. Discoveries build upon each other, combine, coalesce, grow and thus further mysteries are unveiled. This is the dynamic of how thought burgeons and by implication all mystery is resolvable. Once one grasps this dynamic the need to believe in God or gods becomes unnecessary.
Any rational person can apprehend the obvious truth of this dynamic and thereby forgo what might termed the “divine mystery of complexity”.
Once mystery is translated from imponderable to potentiality the need to employ God as an explanation for the unknown evaporates. What remains is the fundamental and true reason mankind invented God: fear of death and the need to believe in some form of personal continuity. But even this provides no legitimate rationale for the existence of God. The drive to continue existing, and its corollary, fear of death, is not divine it is reflexive. From single-celled microbes to the complexity that is Man all that is living struggles to continue to be. Just as an electron must circle a proton so must all that is animate insist on continuing to be in motionIf, as religion purports, God is without beginning or end why can’t the mechanical Universe be seen in the same light?
And by the by, where exactly did God live before he invented the heavens and the earth?