Believe

When children are little they do not need to see or have proof that Santa Claus and Superman are real, they just believe. That however, gets proven wrong when they grow up and learn the truths about things; but what about things that cannot be proven? For instance, the controversy over the mission to the moon, some think that it is an elaborate hoax while others believe in it without question. The ones who believe it to be true do not need any more evidence and proof. What they think they perceive as true is what they believe. To believe in something is to “have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so…” (Dictionary.com).

There are so many different things that people believe in without hesitation. Religion probably is the biggest thing that comes to mind. People believe in the unseen every day. God cannot be proven with science yet, but people still believe in him. That is when faith comes in to play; I myself being a Christ follower believe this is an essential part. I cannot prove that God exists, but I believe that it is and have faith that it is true. There is a website I found giving six straightforward reasons to believe that God does really exist, http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html. It is amazing how many different views to this one subject there truly are today. Not all things can be proven with science or math. The Big Bang cannot be completely proven and who is to say that God did not start the big bang. There is another article saying just this, http://www.rbc.org/questionsDetail.aspx?id=45738. Believing in things helps give us explanations to things that we do not know yet.

There are things in life that just cannot be proven yet, but people have to make decisions. Sometimes it is better to believe in something rather than nothing at all. It is hard to wrap the human mind around the concept that we cannot understand why or how we exist, therefore we compensate by making simple explanations. This is not only true in religion, but in science all things that we consider to be facts today started out as just theories until we had the ability with technology to prove them. Without out the humans ability to theorize on what we now deem the improvable we would still be living in caves and playing with rocks.