It is possible that every man has a limit to his
intelligence.
Let us assume a man of limitless knowledge and wisdom. I
would like to call that person god.
All the religions do it, so I take that liberty in this
post.
If a common man has a reasonable amount of intelligence, and
those that scream eureka when their hind side hits a tub of water, have an above reasonable amount of intelligence, the
difference between gods and men is a simple matter of limits.
It has been observed that the intellectual giants of old,
when faced with a dilemma that lay outside their intellectual capacity, have
attributed their unsolvable mystery to the existence of a mystical being who
keeps it all together.
And it is more
interesting to note, that a century later, another intellectual giant solves
the problem, and in his course of research comes across another apparently
unsolvable problem, which he again attributes to our very own mystical all
knowing being.
It has happened with Newton, it has happened with Darwin, it
has happened with Laplace.
So I can conclude that a god is born each time a man reaches
his limits. God is a creation of men’s arrogance. An arrogance that makes men
believe that if they cannot come up with an answer, then the answer can only be
explained by the existence of the unknown.
It reasonably explains why every religion expounds the
virtues of humility. A subconscious discrete effort to remind man that it is
not the end of the road, keep trying.
