Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Can the presence of physical elements prove a higher entity?

We cannot see language, we cannot hear language, yet we do not doubt that language exists. Don't get mixed up between language and the elements of language. We can hear individual sounds and words, but that is not language. They are only sounds and words. Language is the system that people tap on, through the use of sounds and words, to convey meaning.


A simple way to look at this puzzling situation is to look at the relation between trees, rocks, waterfalls and a National Park. We can see trees, waterfalls and rocks up close, but we can see a National Park only when we are able to rise above the ground and see everything in its entirety.


So, while we can only see and hear the individual sounds and words of a language, we're able to perceive that these discrete parts are related to one another in a system. It is the relationship between these linguistic elements that create a meaningful system, a meaningful entity that we call language.


Similarly, do the different things in the world relate to one another? Does anything connect them together?


This does not prove God exists as the entity that connects all things together, but at the very least, it leaves the issue undecided. Because we can perceive the existence of language just by recognising how the connection between sounds and words creates a meaning greater than the simple sum of individual sounds and words, we cannot rule out the possibility that God exists, because we can recognise that the different elements of the natural world connect together to form a real world, a reality that we live in.

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