As I left work, I noticed how the light in a tree spread itself through the wet grass, illuminating every single blade. I thought, "Beautiful." Then, I began to think about the nature of beauty, and Socrates' words on the subject in The Republic. I remembered my decision to take what he said with a grain of salt, because he seemed arrogant, and while he made some sense, he talked in circles over people's heads, almost as if to confuse them on purpose.

Immediately, my brain went to thoughts on the nature of logic, and the fact is this:

Logic is a fallible system.

I believe this is a fact. Logic is a human system, and therefore inherently flawed. It evolves and changes, just like we do, and binds the universe not so neatly into order. Here is why I've come to this conclusion.

I was talking to a certain man, very smart and inherently off-putting (in the way most members of the great Anonymous are), and he was explaining to me why God didn't exist, logically. I asked, "What if logic doesn't apply to God?"

"Then you take the world out of a logical point of view. All things in this universe subscribe to certain laws."

"But what if our God is part of another universe where our laws don't apply, a universe with its own set of laws and logic?"

From here on, the argument was a stalemate, mainly because my friend couldn't comprehend there being another universe that didn't follow logic, and I wouldn't submit to one that did. Logic HAD to apply, because it was infallible. It was the foundation on which he based all his beliefs, and that's no worse than what I do or what anyone else does.

My point is that logic is not a necessary boundary. Just like the other irrationals and infinites that humans cannot comprehend, there are things that cannot be put into reasonable order. The argument goes that all the things science describes have always existed, even before we knew about them; it just took a while for us to figure them out. Furthermore, all things can be figured out through scientific means.

All of this requires order, and I'm not a firm believer in order alone. I believe the universe cannot be organized perfectly. The thing is, humans need that sense of order, therefore we have science and God and logic. We explain what we can't explain in a way that makes sense to us. Order makes sense. We like a clean house, a clear plan, categories, organization. My apartment is always clean, with everything in its place, because it feels good that way.

When you get down to it, all of it, logic, science, religion... it's all Philosophy. It's all seeking some ultimate cosmic truth, some orderly universal explanation. It seeks to objectify what seems to be a subjective universe. And that's just the problem. As far as human experience is concerned, everything is as we see it. And maybe that's all that matters. If that's true, then an atheistic world can easily coincide with a theistic system, and they should harmonize perfectly, because they are the same thing in a different perspective (and maybe they do).

I could wax philosophical all day on this, and I wouldn't mind talking about it with any readers. My point, though, is that logic is human, and therefore limited to human perception. If this universe is indeed bigger than what we experience, then there's no reason it has to be bound by our experience. There's no reason why a logical argument can prove without a doubt that there is no God, and there's no reason God must necessarily exist. There's no reason why this argument is valid or invalid. But we have faith, in science, in God, in philosophy, in our perception.

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And to live otherwise would be folly. Don't you think?