For as long as we’ve walked the earth, humans have looked up at the night sky and wondered:

 Where did all this come from?

 The stars, the earth, the strange spark of life — and our own ability to even ask the question.

Some say it’s all coincidence.

 That the universe emerged by chance — no plan, no purpose.

 Others argue that such order, beauty, and consciousness can’t possibly be accidental — that something greater must lie behind it.

As the philosopher Aristotle once wrote,

 “The first philosophy is the search for causes and principles.”

Across centuries, thinkers from every culture — from Greek philosophers to modern physicists — have wrestled with the same question:

 is there evidence, rational evidence, that gods — or something like them — could exist?

Today, we’re going to explore five of the most compelling arguments ever made for the existence of the divine.

Not through faith or myth, but through reason — through what the world itself seems to suggest.

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