Essay-Is God's Existence a Fact?

The source I decided to use was an unofficial essay by Thomas Lourdeau entitled “Essay-is God’s Existence a Fact”. In this essay the author, Lourdeau, tries to explain his point that God is a real entity using moral law, The Cosmological Argument, and the very vastness and complexity of our universe. In his essay the first argument he presents is the “universal” moral law or code that all human societies obey. Essentially it is the law that unofficially governs all civilizations and aspects of human life. He uses examples that say in our society the sins or murder, rape, and other various crimes are not tolerated and our dealt with accordingly. He believes that man cannot govern man and that there is indeed and outside force or being ruling us. He asserts in his essay that “a God does exist, and that he governs this universe based on an absolute moral law using these absolutes to determine what is truly (as opposed to subjectively) right and wrong” (Lourdeau 1). Also in his paper, he uses The Cosmological Argument to justify his claim of God’s existence. This argument basically states that there must be something that never began, something that created and designed the entire universe and all that inhabit it. The argument uses questions that lead to new ones to figure out where things began. For example, if humans came from dirt, dirt came from atoms, who made the atoms? The conclusion to this is that something is definitely everlasting. Some atheists believe that the universe is an eternal being and always been. Most, though, finally do admit that by their standard of beliefs that something must have created the universe, an example would be The Big Bang Theory. But it is very hard to believe that the universe could just poof out of an explosion and be exactly aligned so that we as humans thrive on Earth. This leads me into the final point of his argument which is from the human perspective. The Earth and universe as a whole is not random but orderly and obeys rules such as gravity, laws of motions, and other mechanics of science. Also it is hard to believe that randomly an explosion occurred and our Earth was perfectly in place to obtain enough sun light for us to survive. Another example is the moon’s gravitational pull. If not for it our coastlines would be sporadic and would irregularly fluctuate.
My response to his essay is it is very well thought out and well researched. It brings up some interesting points that intrigue me. It is true that there is a code that even we live by, a code that has been here for ages (since at least the Ten Commandments). I also agree with him about man not being able to rule themselves or as we have seen in the past there would be eminent chaos. Perhaps there is an eternal hand guiding us, showing us the way to truth and prosperity. The Cosmological Argument is also fascinating in the fact that it really a never ending question. It is such a confusing philosophy that it captivates the expanses of my mind and really pushes my brain to its limits of knowledge. This argument also brings up the fact that atheists contradict themselves and do not have enough facts to full disprove that there is a divine being watching over us. The argument does help validate the theory of creationism and does bring up major points that should be considered for a sound opinion on the topic. The last argument, to me, is the real hard facts that God, in fact, does exist. The universe is very orderly and do obey all known laws that have been studied for centuries by some of the greatest minds in human history. It is very hard to believe that everything just happened without some outside deity engineering this great feat. The depth of the research and facts are just too important to simply overlook for a proper decision.


Lourdeau, Thomas. "Essay-is God's Existence a Fact?." Society. associatedcontent, 20 Apr 2007. Web. 25 Mar 2010. .