What do I think about God? If we believe that what we hear, see, touch, etc. is real; that what we perceive is reality and not just a dream; that all things have an independent existence other than our perceiving of them; that when a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, it does make a sound; that we are not in some Matrix inspired video reality program wrapped around our senses, then it leads us to a certain consequence.

The consequence that I speak of is that if you use your senses and take in your environment you see a certain order. You see that all things have purpose; that everything in existence is there for a reason.

So if everything has a purpose, for example, what is the purpose of a tree? A tree is to give shade, to home or house birds and other animals, to change carbon dioxide into oxygen for other animals to breathe, so on and so forth. You can probably do that with all living creatures on the planet, whether lion, tree or human.

So now if we take that everything has a purpose and then we look at ourselves, what purposes do humans have? What is our purpose? Well if we take the behavior of a lion, if a lion’s purpose is what it does, or a tree in what it does, or what it provides or any other animal, then what we do should indicate what our purpose is. So what do we do? Well, what it looks like is that we procreate and we continue to procreate until we overburden the planet. We develop all its resources until we exhaust them. We destroy by trying to master nature.

We’re more of a destructive force towards the planet, it seems. So, there is only one other living thing that behaves in that manner that I can think of. That would be a parasite. A parasite feeds on its host until its host dies and then, because it has no food (it’s not a symbiotic relationship), it dies or moves on to the next host. Human beings are of that nature. We’re procreating and destroying the planet until basically we’ve destroyed ourselves. Another host (planet) is not within our reach at present.

But do we have another purpose. If our purpose is to destroy ourselves then that’s one thing. But let’s try to think of something else. It seems that if you look at all higher animals that basically one of their traits or purposes is to continue their species. They procreate. But, unlike humans, they seem to grow into equilibrium with their environment (however chaotic it seems). So there aren’t too many rabbits eating grass because the foxes eat the rabbits and so on and so forth. It seems that humans are the only ones who don’t do this.

But when humans are attacked, we defend ourselves. We try our best to continue our existence. We do have a self-preservation instinct and that’s the reason why we do everything that we’re doing. All our inventions and all our everything, directly or indirectly, are for our survival; invent a better plow in order to make more food. We manipulate the genetic make up of wheat in order for it to grow in places that it shouldn’t in order to create more food in order for all of us to live. We seem to be doing one thing in order to survive, but in our survival, we’re killing ourselves.

Maybe our purpose is to use up all of the resources on this planet in order to develop technologically so we can get off this planet; in order to go to another planet and develop there. Maybe our survival instinct is propelling us to get the hell off this planet and maybe that is our purpose. But if human beings only reason for existence, our only purpose is to continue the species; to procreate like all other animals, then why do we need our higher faculties? It seems that our higher faculties are what is destroying the planet and as a result ourselves.

Do we really need our higher learning just to procreate? Wouldn’t we, if we were a lower form of animal but still anatomically human, end up still being able to survive? I mean we would get into a tree to get away from an animal that would kill us. We would group together like wolves to hunt for food. We could be vegetarians. There are other animals on the planet that we can kill easily yet they still survive. We don’t need to be the strongest or the smartest animal on the planet in order to live. Our higher learning, our thought processes, aren’t needed to survive. It is not difficult to realize that if we had less intelligence, less ability to imagine, or any of the other higher faculties, we would still survive. Monkeys do. Would we not just fall into a state of equilibrium like all other species? And would that not be more satisfactory to our own survival than what has been the history of human-kind since the industrial revolution?

What is the purpose of us being smarter than other animals, being able to create, being able to know of our impending deaths; to know that we have a life span; that we will eventually die? Why do we think, many of us, that there is such a thing as a God? Since everything does have a purpose, be it a lion, a tree, or any other animal and it has the capacity to survive without higher faculties. What is the reason for our obtaining the higher faculties? Why do we know that we die? Why do we think God exists? Why do we have things such as philosophy or painting or the other arts? Why do we have these things? They’re not needed for our survival. In fact, if we couldn’t imagine things such as science and mathematics, we would probably survive better; although we wouldn’t have as many people.

We must assume that our higher faculties exist for a reason; that they have a purpose. What is our purpose when we know that mere survival can be gained without these higher faculties? What is the purpose of that? Well it seems to me there’s only one purpose that makes sense. As Spock said inevitably on Star Trek, “Once you eliminate all the possibilities then whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.” The only purpose that is left is the belief in and worship of God, is it not?