You believe only what your senses tell you to believe? Do you think that your senses are of any use without its
substratum—the consciousness? By definition, there is a lot that scientists
don’t know, because the whole point of science is to explore the unknown. Everyone,
including any scientist, experiences the truthfulness of what we all say “I”
exist. We are not something just mechanical; we are alive. Scientist can divide
me into parts; then put back all those parts, but I will not be found there
[yet we know that “I” exists] because I am not a mechanical device, I am not
just parts accumulated and arranged. Something more is there, more than all the
parts – that something cannot be missed out. Analysis can know the material, not
the spiritual. I am spirit, and body is my vehicle because body is silent and
inert, but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of “I”
within me. So I am the conscious energy which uses this body as its vehicle. In
other words, conscious energy makes use of senses—not the other way around i.e. senses cannot know the spirit.
We know the limitation of our senses in our daily life. Seeing cards
arranged as a pyramid is the work of our sense--eye, and to see also the forces
acting in various directions, nullifying each other thus making the pyramid
shape takes something other than physical sense. Similarly, our sense eye can
see a seed, yet it takes something else other than physical sense to see also
within it the invisible program in which all the future generations remains
protected.
This aspect is practiced by everyone. For example, evolutionists
talk about natural selection — a process that only works by re-shuffling existing genetic information —
which means it is supposed to add the massive amounts of new information that
are required to get the complexity we see today from a simple single-celled
organism over millions of years. How do you get from simple pond scum to highly
complex people without adding massive amounts of new genetic information? Whose
senses saw this happening millions of years ago?
Atheists also go beyond the scope of senses. To make a claim that
no God exists atheists must have unlimited knowledge of this universe. What the
atheist is fundamentally saying is that he has infinite knowledge of this
universe to affirm that there exist no being with infinite knowledge. I agree
with Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winner for quantum electrodynamics) who said,
"Why nature is mathematical is a mystery...The fact that there are rules
at all is a kind of miracle." That’s out there.
What about things within us? Among other things, DNA code fills me
with astonishment. We all know that someone who writes an instruction manual
does so with purpose. In every cell of our bodies there exists a very detailed
instruction code, much like a computer program. The DNA code in each of our
cells is made up of four chemicals that scientists abbreviate as A, T, G, and
C. DNA is a three-billion-lettered program telling the cell to act in a certain
way. It is a full instruction manual. One has to ask....how did this
information program wind up in each human cell? These are not just chemicals.
These are chemicals that instruct that code in a very detailed way exactly how the
person's body should develop. Natural, biological causes are completely lacking
as an explanation when programmed information is involved. You cannot find
instruction, precise information like this, without someone intentionally
constructing it.
That someone is the soul within.
