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I hope you don't mind if I take a run at this: the materialistic view is that the universe is composed of matter in motion, which incidentally configures into larger objects through chance, without design. Thus, human beings are just one more piece of the kaleidescope, with no more significance than a rock or cockroach. However, we have the experience of self- awareness, the sense of a unifying identity, and the experience of caring and attributing significance to ourselves and others, and to the events which transpire before us. That experience is immediate and compelling, while materialism is a mere theory of the composition of things, and it tells us that materialism is false, that there is something more than "atoms and the void", as the Epicureans used to say. We believe in God because the kind of universe we live in has a place for meaningful identity and inherent values, rather than being a meaningless and transient configuration......... |
