Hello God, where the hell were you?

I saw a post recently asking the question, “If you could ask God one question, what would it be?” So that got me to thinking…

Since most people in the US belong to some sect of Christianity, they picture their God as they believe Him to exist. They imagine asking Him about some detail about their faith they’ve struggled with in doubt. Or perhaps they’ve got a score to settle and they want to know why their loved one was taken. At least those are common threads.

My question would be something like why did you hide? I looked everywhere, inside and out. I never saw you. I called out many times. You never answered. Science has searched for you for thousands of years. Nothing. Physics hasn’t found Him. Biology hasn’t found a trace of a divine hand guiding evolution.

In fact the opposite has been found. The study of the natural world around us has lead to the scientific consensus that the Universe, Time, and Space began with The Big Bang. Life has evolved on Earth. Thoughts are bio electrical interactions among nerves in a brain. Before science, God was the most logical explanation for why we are here, how we got here, and what the difference is between living things and dead things. Now that we have science, insistence on His existence is just wishful thinking.

So if I were to find myself in the unlikely position of asking God one question it would be, “Where the hell were you?”