Final Remarks: Becoming Aware of our Fundamental Limits in Knowing and Doing, Implications for the Question of the Existence of God

Abstract

Having arrived at the end of this book the reader may not be completely satisfied. He has read about mathematics, about physics and about the way others think about science. But, so what? Why has this wide-ranging material been brought together? Are there firm conclusions regarding what the title promises: the existence of God? A comparison already mentioned in the Introduction could help answer these questions. Consider the parts of a puzzle, representing in their totality a masterpiece of art. The parts on their own are only small, colored pieces of cardboard. In this book we tried to deliver some important pieces of that puzzle, indicated by the set of questions. The reader should decide whether the pieces result in more than a random distribution of colored pieces. Being optimistic the editors and probably others, will see the vague but certainly discernible contours of a reality beyond the things we can touch, see, hear, smell or taste. In any case, however, we are aware that we have not reached completeness in solving our puzzle; some pieces are still missing that further reflection should work out.