How Unique You Are! -Drawn to a Creator

Many people, however, are not satisfied fully by enjoying beauty, doing good to fellowman, and thinking about the future.  "Strangely enough," notes Professor C. Stephen Evans,  "even in our most happy and treasured moments of love, we often feel something is missing. We find ourselves wanting more but not knowing what it is the more we want."  Indeed, conscious humans-unlike the animals with which we share this planet-feel another need. 

"Religion is deeply rooted in human nature and experienced at every level of economic status and educational background."  This summed up the research that Professor Alister Hardy presented in The Spiritual Nature of Man.  It confirms what numerous other studies have established-man is God-conscious. While individuals may be atheists, whole nations are not.  The book Is God the Only Reality? observes: "The religious quest for meaning . . . is the common experience in every culture and every age since the emergence of humankind."

From where does this seemingly inborn awareness of God come? If man were merely an accidental grouping of nucleic acid and protein molecules, why would these molecules develop a love of art and beauty, turn religious, and contemplate eternity?

Sir John Eccles concluded that an evolutionary explanation of man's existence "fails in a most important respect. It cannot account for the existence of each one of us as unique self-conscious beings."  The more we learn about the workings of our brain and mind, the easier it is to see why millions of people have concluded that man's conscious existence is evident of a Creator who cares about us. 

In the next chapter, we will see why people of all walks of life have found that this rational conclusion lays the basis for finding satisfying answers to the vital questions, Why are we here, and where are we going?

Next time: Chapter 5/The Handiwork-What Is Behind It?

From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?