God's existence

Mr John Guillaumier (The Sunday Times, February 27) makes the astonishing assertion that God does not exist, and he cites in support some great minds who held that God was only a man-made hypothesis and that His existence cannot be proved scientifically.

Indeed, you cannot prove that God exists by using any scientific process. God is a spirit - more so, the Supreme Spirit - and it is simply not possible to submit any spirit to examination and study by means which do not apply to the spiritual. And then, it seems to me, that if the existence of God cannot be proved by science it also follows that neither can science prove that God does not exist.

There is in fact more than sufficient evidence that there is an awesome power and intelligence which brought into being the limitless and wonderful thing we know as the universe; its existence cannot be said - as Stephen Hawking asserted - that it does not have any cause or consequence but that it simply exists. This surely goes against any balanced reasoning which correctly concludes that there can be no effect without a cause.

This existence of God will be proved conclusively one day to every one of us, whether or not we believe, when we appear before Him on the day we die. One sincerely hopes that this realisation does not come too late to avert an extremely unpleasant sequel.