Voltair once wrote, “If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.” Deep thinking people have been asking if there are any good reasons for believing that God is an existent being and not a human invention. It is written in the Bible that God created man in his own image (this must have been a very patriarchal god, to be sure). This begs the question, “Did man return the favor?”
We have heard many different arguments about the existence of god, and the most famous one is the one that refers to God as this all-knowing, all-seeing, always awake, always on, and always there with all the answers (i.e., written in holy books and preached by experts). But in order to really believe in this kind of God we have to take the Kierkegaardian leap of faith, no? We are not sure he is everywhere and all knowing, but we rely on our acculturation and go with the comforting thoughts.
But today we seem to have invented a new God that actually is everywhere, always on, and all knowing. We have tremendous faith in it; we rely on it for almost everything. It is a new God, competing with the traditional God and it even embraces science. Evolution, teleological intelligent design theory, anything else? No problem, this new God will have it in its universe and will explain it to us with a million and one links—twenty hours a day. To those Americans who were born in the late nineties and beyond, the Internet is ontological and given its enormous power and its ubiquity– why not call it God?