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Does God exist??

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The basic question which has plagued the minds of thinking people down through the ages is, "Does God exist?" Very often a parent has been faced with this very important query by the child - If God made everything, who made God? I want to look at this question from two angles. One can be called a scientific approach and the other a philosophical approach. The answer from the scientific point of view has two divisions - the cosmological and the teleological. The philosophical approach can similarly be divided into the rational and the moral arguments in favour of the existence of God. Before I go into the detailed answer to these questions, I want to make one important qualification: in God, we are dealing with the One Who is infinite and eternal. We are using methods which are necessarily finite and which come within the compass of the human mind. We should therefore be prepared to admit that no final proof for God as such can exist through either of these t...