One may ask, “What kind of question is this?” Of course an atheist will say, “Absolutely!” A theist will say, “Never!” A skeptic, agnostic will say, “Maybe.”

It’s been one of THE areas of debate between atheists and theists. However, of all the questions, this one in particular may have an easy answer if you look at it in a certain angle.

To disprove the existence of something, you need to know FOR SURE it’s not there. So how can we disprove God? Well, we have to literally travel beyond the edge of the universe and look for Him.

Sounds crazy, but that’s literally the only way you can disprove Him. Yes, even if you traveled that far, we don’t know how far God is from the universe? God may even be in another dimension. BUT, at least you tried, right? At least, you can then tell yourself and others that you tried your bare minimum to disprove Him.

Yes, we are not even close to having the technology to go much beyond our solar system (According to Space.com, Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space¹). So how can we imagine going to the end of the universe in our lifetime? It’s disheartening, but if you want to disprove God’s existence, what else can you do?

So why do people, with such certainty, say God doesn’t exist? They will give logical and emotional reasons. You will hear, “If God exists, there shouldn’t be evil in the world,” or “Nature and the universe can sustain themselves.” But never mind these questions having responses, and all the back and forths, you have to ask yourself this, “Will any answer actually disprove God’s existence?”

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1. https://www.space.com/17688-voyager-1.html

What’s so special about eyes? Here are some facts about a human one specifically:

1. Your eyeball is specially protected by being in a socket and as a result only about 1/6th of the eye is exposed.
2. It is said that eyebrows prevent sweat from going into the eyes and the lashes keep dirt away.
3. They heal very quickly!
4. We have over 1 million nerve fibers connecting an eye to the brain, and as a result of its complexity, a complete eye transplant has not been done yet.
5. An iris has 256 unique characteristics compared to a fingerprint’s 40!
6. It takes the brain 1/10th of a second to process vision!
7. We can see about 10 million different colors.
8. It’s arguably the most complex organ after the brain.¹

Thus, anyone can appreciate the science behind it and see how advanced eyes are. However, when you ask, “WHY do we have them?”, what answer can really be given? From an evolutionary or atheistic point of view, there frankly CAN’T be a good one.

If you think from an evolutionary point of view, and this isn’t to dismiss all aspects of evolution, the eyeball is not “necessary.” We don’t need it to survive. Yes, there’s no doubt that the eye is extremely valuable! It’s one of the most precious organs we have. It’s the reason we visualize our surroundings and consequently can avoid danger, but it is not a direct reason for survival. When you think about the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and the mouth, if we don’t have one of them, we are gone! But, we can live without eyes. That is why evolutionarily one has to answer how we got them.

Now if an atheist tries to answer, he or she may say nature caused them to exist or, by chance, some of the early living things on Earth had primitive eyes. Then, through millions and millions of years of natural selection, mother nature, and survival of the fittest, nature enabled the eyes to evolve and possibly those with more advanced eyes survived.But that begs the question – doesn’t it sound like one is saying “mother nature” or “natural selection” has a conscience? How can nature direct anything to that extent? How did it “allow” creatures to have eyes, even though we don’t need them, and then become an organ so prevalent in animals?

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1. A lot of the scientific facts are from: https://discoveryeye.org/20-facts-about-the-amazing-eye.