Rights of a nOBODY


Every now and then, I keep running into these discussions on God, his existence and his illustrative line of followers.

At the fall of a hat, theists come with examples of faithful scientists and mathematicians "If THEY believed in God, who are you to deny His existence?"
Answer "Nobody" looming large in the air.

I could almost see angels swooshing past in air doing cheer-leading dance singing "Quod Erat Demonstrandum"

Well, Not so sure about this one. That's where the critical difference between Logic and faith comes in.

Logic, I believe, means No person, No concept, No theory is too sacrosanct to be questioned. Whereas faith keeps drawing lines(lakshman-rekhas, are they?) everywhere. The fear that what will happen if the old structure of explanations collapses, does not endanger logic. Actually, the zeal to question norms is what logic thrives on.

I was thinking that maybe logic follows a meritocracy, but no. It's not about concept of merit decided based on past performance data. Maybe a democracy then. But no again. More people supporting a theory does not make it a correct theory, unless it can be proven.

The truth is, logic hardly worries about hierarchy. Tallest of the seats are open to question by smallest of the people. "Nobody" has a right to question anything and everything. Take the inverted commas out, and that's exactly what faith says. Irony, is it?

Who are these Einsteins, Newtons, Gallelios, but nobodies of their youth?If these nobodies were afraid to ask questions about what Archimedes thought to be the laws of physics?

Guess, we would still be amazed why apples fell down and would be celebrating Eureka days running around the streets wearing but waterdrops.