The 'smartest man' in the world has given this thoughts as to whether he thinks God exists or not.
You may think that the smartest man in the world is one of the leading scientists or billionaires influencing some of the biggest decisions in science or tech industries, but this isn't the case.
American Chris Langan is alleged to have an IQ between 190 and 210, which is higher than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, among others.
He is widely known for his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), a theory which attempts to explain the connection between mind and reality.
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It further states that both reality and consciousness are interconnected in a structure which could explain existence, though this is yet to be definitively proven.
Langan, who has previously shared his thoughts on what happens after we die, spoke in an interview with CTMU Radio about a number of subjects, one of which was the existence of God.
While many scientists have claimed to be atheists and insist that God isn't real, many were eager to hear the answer from the 'world's smartest man'.
When asked about whether God is real, the horse rancher answered: "Yes. Yes, the reality has an identity. The identity is that as which something exists. Matter of fact, when you say the world reality, you're naming an identity. You're identifying something."
He even explained how CTMU applies to the question, linking identity and properties, adding: "That's what the CTMU says. It just comes up, with a mathematical structure that you need to build a reality out of that."
Langan added: "So, you come up with that identity and then you search it for its properties.
"Once you've built the preliminary framework, you start deducing the properties of this identity and you find out that those properties match those of God, as described in most of the world's major religions."
He said that God is the identity of certain properties which we may see around us, instead of being a figure in heaven - an interesting answer to a question which many would think constitutes a 'yes' or 'no' answer.
That's not all Langan has spoken about, though, as he has previously opened up on what happens after we die.
Speaking on the Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal podcast, he explained: “That's the termination of your relationship with your particular physical body that you have at this present time. When you are retracted from this reality, you go back up toward the origin of reality.
"You can be provided with a substitute body, another kind of terminal body that allows you to keep on existing.”
He says that death doesn't mean your existence is no more, but that your consciousness moves out of this world and into the origin of reality, though this isn't the afterlife.
Langan says that we'll reach a state of meditation or something similar, adding: "Arguably, all of your lifetimes, if you were to be reincarnated again and again and again, all of those reincarnations are meta-simultaneous.
"There is a sense in which they all occur at once in the non-terminal domain.”
Joshua Nair