Who Is God?

This article is dedicated to Mr. Bhimsen Panda, my role model & teacher, who have been a source of inspiration & support for me. Sir, this is for you.

Who is God? I think this is by far the most controversial or most asked question of all time which had largely affected our way of thinking. God is our creator, a being which is responsible for the beginning of our universe. Throughout the history, people have been giving many ideas or views. In response to these ideas, people started to believe in some forms of powers which rule the cosmos. After the formation of human civilization, people started to break apart within many believes which is called religion. Today there are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism & Buddhism as major religions along with other kind of minor religions. Every religion has its ideas about the nature. Each & every religion believes in different forms of superpower. All these are OK till social level, but when it comes to science, all these are dismissed. Science doesn’t believe in creator or God because there’s no experimental prove of existence of any kind of super being throughout the universe. Science makes God meaningless. Almost no scientist believes in God. All are atheist. But there’re still few of them, who keep believe in a creator. Prof. Stephen Hawking, regarded as one of the greatest physicist & cosmologist of the century, said in his book The Grand Design that science makes God unnecessary. Only the laws of nature rule. Now I want to be a scientist (astrophysicist) in future. So what view do I hold?

Few years ago, I wasn’t thinking on all these matters as I was too young. But all of a sudden, some days or months earlier, I started to think on the topic. Who is our God? Who created us? The top most priority goes to laws of nature. So, for me laws of nature is the creator or God. Every where we see, every thing is dominated by laws of nature. But still questions arise, was there … Continue reading …