So i have been challenged to demonstrate the existence of God in simple terms using science, reason and logic, and i relish the idea. It needs to come in 2 parts - our understanding of our existence, and then the argument.

By the way, the answer to “where do you find the time?”, is rather simple. I work 20hrs out of the 24, 7 days a week, and not just 8hrs from 9 to 5. I also work smarter and in a more fragmented and productive style with always 5 projects on the go simultaneously. No, i am no genius. I just have to keep my brain whirring round or i go fucking mad. In my mind, i’m underperforming right now. I need to do more.

Right, so here we are. Concentrate. This is my summary. Let’s start with what we know as our base foundation.

We know that the universe is around 13.7 billion years old and at least 93 billion light years across. It may be part of the multiverse, is constant evolving (expanding faster and faster), and was first modelled by the ancient Greeks. We believe it to work within, and around, scientific natural laws.

The universe is made up of 73% dark energy, 23% cold dark matter and 4% ordinary matter. Billions of clumps and superstructures of galaxies are spread isotropically, with each being formed from billions of stars and formations of solid matter (planets). Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way and is 100,000 light years in diameter, about 1,000 light years thick and contains possibly up to 400 billion stars. The oldest star in the Milky Way is believed to be 13.2BN years old, nearly the same age as the universe itself.

We understand the basic building block of all matter to be the atom, which consists of a of a dense nucleus of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons, surrounded by a much larger electron cloud consisting of negatively charged electrons. Both protons and neutrons are composed of elementary sub-atomic particles called quarks. The quark is a type of fermion, and the electron a type of lepton. Atoms/elements join together and form molecules and compounds in different combinations that make up physical matter. Any mass has an associated energy and vice versa, and measured/compared to the speed of light.

Our solar system is a region of that galaxy composing 8 major planets, 3 dwarf planets and 166 moons that gravitationally orbit the sun, and its creation is believed to be explained through the nebular hypothesis.

The sun is a medium-size magnetically-active yellow dwarf star that is 4.57 billion years old and half-way through its lifecycle (10 billion years total). It supports all life and activity in the solar system as we know it, but in 900 million years, it will produce too much heat to sustain life on Earth despite decreasing its luminosity by 10%. In about 5.6 billion years, it will become a red giant (as it does not have enough energy to become a supernova), then become a planetary nebula, and finally slow and cool to fade away as a white dwarf over billions of years.

According to geology, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, is the only planet in our solar system able to sustain life and was formed out of the remains of the solar nebula (the sun’s formation). The sun’s energy is shielded by the ozone layer, and plant photosynthesis (around 3 billion years old) captures the sun’s energy and provides the chemical processes that support life. Only 1/8th of the planet’s land surface is suitable for humans to live on with 75% covered by ocean.

Life is believed to have originated on earth through the process of abiogenesis around 4.4 billion years ago through a molecule that became able to replicate itself and the liquification of water. Up to 100 million species evolved through the process of natural selection and adaptation, all built from the basic blocks of up to 100 trillion single cells that hold genetic structure information encoded as chromosomes formed from DNA. Fungi and plants colonised the earth 700m years ago, with the first animals leaving the oceans for land around 450 million years ago. The first animals of the homo genus arrived 2M years ago.

We are a species of higher ape mammal called Homo Sapiens that emerged 200,000 years ago in the African Savannah, took 6.5 million years to evolve and first showed signs of spirituality in the Neanderthal age by burying the dead. Scientists estimate the current human population was formed through a common base originating gene pool of 1,000 breeding pairs. Our genome consists of 24 distinct chromosomeswith a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. Our closest genetic relative by common descent (95% identical DNA sequence) is the chimpanzee and we are separated from other animals through a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, emotion, culture and introspection (counsciousness), and an erect body carriage that frees our upper limbs for the purpose of making complex tools.

8000 years ago in the Middle East we began practising agriculture, formed our first known recognised civilisation 4000 years later and our first religion (Hinduism) 1000 years after that. The first proto-states, government and military (Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley) developed around 6000 years ago, and the first recorded empires (Persia, China, and Rome) 3000 years ago. The world we know today was brought about the scientific and industrial revolutions, and we currently live in an age of globalisation.and interconnected telecommunication.

The Homo genus is the only genus to exhibit religious behaviour, and religion is a cultural universal found in all human populations that is believe to be tied to the development of language. The earliest religions of the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages consisted of beliefs in multiple gods (polytheism), ancestor worship and shamanism. The arrival of the Iron Age changed our focus to belief in ons God (monotheism) and the first religious texts were created around 4000 years ago after writing was invented. Judaism followed Hinduism around 1500 BC, followed by Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism around 500BC, Christianity at 33 AD and Islam at 570 AD. First we worshipped our ancestors and things, then the stars, planets and multiple gods, then a single god, and now we worship ourselves.

So to sum it up, the earth is 4 and a half billion years old, and we turned up 100,000 years ago. All life on the planet will die out in 900 million years. Our existence is very unique, and we have managed to virtually destroy the place in just a few thousand years.

P.S. Dan would like to add, “but where do the true origins of freaky sex lie?”. I have no fucking idea, Dan.