I was in my chemistry class yesterday and my teacher brought up how scientists thought that atoms were the smallest forms of matter, and then we found electrons, and then smaller then that are quarks, and then we found dark matter, and so on. I was interested in electrons because I had heard a statement before and wanted to know the validity of it, considering he had gone to college for many years.
I raised my hand and he called on me. "I had read that no one can see electrons with their naked eye or with a microscope of any kind. Is that true?"
After three or four seconds of thinking, he gave me a response. "Well, yes, no one can visually see an electron, but we can interact with it. We can use light to play with an electron, or shoot an electron against something then have it bounce back. We have been able to do that for years. We can see it, by playing with it; but we cannot visually see an electron, no. So, yes and no."
I nodded, smiling from cheek to cheek. He was so passionate about making sure that I knew that electrons were real. He wanted me to know that even though no one could physically see an electron, there is no way that it is not real.
It takes the same amount of faith to believe in God as it does to believe in an electron being real. We cannot see either, but both have an unchangeable way about them. We cannot see God, nor can we see an electron, but there are mountains of evidences for both.
While I was researching about this topic, I discovered the reason why most people do not make this connection. Electrons, although they cannot be seen, have a specific nature. If you use light in a specific way, it will always react in a specific way. Most people do not believe in God in the same way because they feel that God is constantly changing and if you pray a prayer one day and then another, one may be answered and the other may not be. This argument is invalid.
Just as electrons can be shot against a wall and bounce back using specific devices in specific ways and using specific materials; God shows us the guide lines of the prayers in which He will answer and how He will step in. If we shine a flashlight at thin air, we are not going to make electrons form a lightning bolt, or even react noticeably, because you are not using light correctly with the electrons. That is misunderstanding electrons. Just because you never saw a flash of lightning when you shined a flashlight does not mean that electrons do not exist. The same applies with God. God is not an imaginary figure. He has His own ways and He is alive. He does not change with our opinion; and when you do something that God does not say to do, and God does something you do not expect, or He does not do what you expect, you question if God is real.
Both electrons and God have specific attributes that do not change for any reason. We cannot see electrons, but we took the time to learn about them so that we know how they operate. We can do the same for God. He will not change or be who you want Him to be. He is God, independent of man's thinking. You can learn how to interact with Him and learn about His attributes and how He works the same way you can for electrons.
We study, we test, and we ask. Study the word, put to test the things you've read from the word, and ask God to show you who He truly is. Just because an electron does not do what you want does not mean it is not real. The same applies to God. It takes the same amount of faith to believe in an electron than in God.To say that one is real and to brush the other off as false is to cut off logic at its core and to ignore the pursuit of knowledge.
A scientist will not say, "because my experiment did not go as planned, everything that I believed in is false and science is for fools." It takes the same amount of faith to believe in an electron as it does to believe in God, so to give up on one and believe in the other is the destruction of logic at its core.
-D
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