Parameters of Being

We are all born subject to finite limitations in terms of biology, geography, culture, language, nationality, history, race and so on, and, indeed, it is in these things that we often rejoice, take pleasure and find identity. These are the parameters of our being within which we operate. In addition to this we are born with certain qualities installed in our nature as factory settings. It is these quanlities that distinguish us from other animals. They are a moral sense, an aesthetic sense, a sense of humour, self-awareness, awareness of our mortality,  and a thirst for meaning and explanation. When we first awake to reason and begin to think it is folly not to take these settings, which pre-exist our reason, into account or to recognise that they flavour our every thought. Their mere presence traced back to a supposed origin or source is a strong argument for the existence of God.