It's an age-old question:  does God exist?  Without taking sides, Amir D. Aczel, a mathematician by training, recently set out, in a book, to establish that regardless of where we stand on the issue, we cannot expect science to definitively resolve it one way or the other.  In other words, as he writes in his Why Science Does Not Disprove God, "The greatest mystery of all--Is there a God?--may be one of those truths that are unattainable to us from a purely logical-mathematical framework."
     Before coming to this conclusion, Aczel explores an array of fascinating mathematical approaches to the problem, including probabilistic analysis, chaos theory, and set theory, along with various ideas of physics, principally quantum theory and the multiverse concept.  He emphasizes the impossibility of asserting existence from nothing; the difficulty of explaining consciousness arising from materiality alone; and the notion that probability can be used to predict God's existence as much as it cannot.  He also stresses that although evolution is the best way of explaining why the world and its animal species are the way they are, it does not explain why some animals, including human beings, practice altruism when there is no evolutionary or survival need to do so.
     But Aczel's final conclusion, the one I quoted above, is the one most worth pondering.  It's also the one most true to the nature of the human exchange with God.  If God is there, we will not find him, the ultimate and absolutely infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being, through the confines of our human experimentation.  How could we?
     One response to this might be that we only find God by faith.  But this doesn't get us any closer to knowing him or proving that he exists.  The fuller response is that, yes, we need faith (after all, we are finite) to grasp what exists beyond our material world, but also that what is beyond this world, that is, God, must make himself unmistakably known in this world.  And so, from my standpoint, he has:  the person of Jesus Christ.  In other words, if you can't find the infinite in the infinite, look for it in the finite.
     Bottom line, if you're reasonably open minded, you won't miss seeing God.