In Serch of God
2. Does God Exist?
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Human knowledge has two different phases—the
pre-Einstein period and the post-Einstein period. In
the pre-Einstein period, knowledge was confined to
the macro or material world, which was observable
and measurable. So, it was generally held that
everything, which has a real existence, should also
be observable. Anything which could not be
observed had no real existence. This meant that
only the seen world was real and what was unseen
was unreal, or some kind of fiction.
This concept created the theory which is generally
called logical positivism. It means that the only
valid logical argument is one which is demonstrable
in material terms, otherwise it is simply a baseless
claim, and not a valid argument.
But, in the post-Einstein period, in the early years of
the 20th century, when the atom was split, the
whole situation changed. After the splitting of the
atom, matter as a solid substance, disappeared. It
was replaced by the micro world, beyond the
atomic world, where everything was reduced to
unseen waves, neither measurable nor observable.
