All of us have different perceptions and meanings associated with the
word “God”. For some, it would mean the person who sits up high
in the heavens and watches us all over all the time.
Others probably would say that God is someone who has unlimited powers and perform miracles when he wishes. Some would want to think God as an architect of the entire universe.
In this context,
when Carl Sagan, the
famous cosmologist was asked this question about what are his views,
he refuses to use the very word which is ambiguous and would mean
different things to different people.
He emphasizes that even if he answers either yes or no about existence of God, we wouldn’t have learned anything from that answer.
He mentions about
the name God being given to someone relating to the laws of Universe
which Einstein surmised and agrees that God exists in that context.
He beautifully ends his answer by saying that we need to sharpen our
language when discussing such things.
See the below video to get a glimpse of his superior personality and ponder on the question "Is there a God?"
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