God Has a Sense of Humour

God Has a Sense of Humour

August 2024

The main refutation of the existence of a Supreme Being or God is the absence of miracles. All happenings follow the laws of nature and probability; leaving little room for abnormal occurrences.

However, when one observes and experiences the contradictions facing humans, a thought does cross the mind that these inconsistencies seem purposefully inserted by someone with a sense of humour.

Take the example of balding among men as they age. While the hair on the pate thin rapidly, men still sport a thick stubble needing a daily shave to avoid looking unkempt. Logically shouldn’t the need to shave reduce as one gets bald? There are other unexplained inconsistencies. Just imagine any food item that a normal person likes, turns out to be unhealthy. Sweets and chocolates; somethings which children and women adore are health hazards. We are forced to eat items we detest such as greens: the favourite food of goats and cows.  Bitter gourd, a funny looking vegetable is supposed to be the best health food! Kids as a rule dislike stuff like spinach, mushrooms, salads, papaya and vegetables such as brinjal, radish, beetroot, broccoli and bitter gourd. All these are the best health foods which every dietician worth his or her salt recommends. Isn’t it odd that we humans naturally prefer food items which are unhealthy and require to develop a taste for healthy foods or eat them as doctor’s prescription? As part of the evolutionary process our primary instinct of survival should have ensured alignment our likes of foods with our health. One doesn’t see this anomaly in the case of other animals. They like what is healthy for them such as grass for donkeys instead of broccoli or mushrooms and tigers relishing meat and not salads.  Something is fishy here. Someone up above has switched likes and dislikes in the case of humans. Must be enjoying a smile at our discomfiture.

If the story ended with baldness or bitter gourd, we could well bear the burden of eating spinach as our crown thins. But it doesn’t end there. Someone played a prank and bestowed humans with an inner voice: the conscience. This unique attribute triggers guilt if one strays even a millimeter from the thin narrow path which prohibits indulging in anything even remotely enjoyable. Eat a chocolate or tell your spouse a lie and it makes one so anxious that a two-foot birdie putt is missed the next day. That’s not all! The same someone with a devilish intent introduced the institution of marriage to make sure that men get a second conscience, telling him where he went wrong and turned left instead of right or parked in the sun instead of shade.

Nature’s laws could never deviate to an extent of making balding men shave daily or forcing people to consume the most unpalatable foods to prolong life or ensure that conscience inhibits enjoyment making humans lead the life of an ascetic. Only a supreme being can circumvent universal laws and smile as humans cope with such anomalies. Just goes to prove that God exists and smiles as He takes deep interest in human affairs with the devil chipping in once in a while.