Daily Meditation: Friday, October 14, 2005

Creator - denying his existence is absurd

10/14/2005

Like nature, the human being is a creation of God. How absurd, then, that certain creatures do not recognize they have a Creator! How can they refuse to acknowledge something so perfectly obvious: that creation and creatures by necessity have a Creator? When a crime has been committed, we begin by asking ourselves who the perpetrator is. In most cases, he is long gone by then. He has not stayed near his ‘handiwork’, and yet no one doubts that this work has a perpetrator! In the same way, when a painting is discovered without a signature and we do not know to which painter we should attribute it, we do not say that no one painted it. We simply say that the painter is ‘unknown’. Although we have no idea who the painter is, it would never occur to us to doubt his existence. Why then do some claim that this grandiose, sublime work of creation has no author, that it is the product of chance? Let them say instead, if they wish, that the creator is unknown, but to deny this author’s existence is the greatest possible aberration.