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Discuss dj's answer to: Is God wicked and immoral if He fails to give us clear and convincing evidence of His existence?

Should we see evidence of god in the universe given that this god reigns supreme over the great monotheistic religions and was the creator of the universe? Even with our scientific instruments we have ...

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Even with all of your scienctific instruments it has not been proven to me that there is no God, so that attitude doesn't work either way. God gives each man a measure of faith...Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and evidence of things not seen. What you do with that measure of faith is your free will.

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Physicalist

dj--The burden is on you to prove the existence rather than the other way around. I can't prove that the tooth fairy is not under your right molar. If there were an all-powerful god there would be evidence of his activity that would be unequivocal and consistent with the great creator of the universe and great god of the Abrahamic religions. There is zero!

Rocmike3 Thinks this answer is Helpful:

DJ, you have mastered the riddle of living. To know that there is something beyond what we can quantify is the birth of insight and the origin of critical thinking.

Ponder with me a moment. If I showed up at a campfire with Neanderthals roasting a chunk of venison, and tried to teach them M-Theory and Unified Field, would they have a clue?

They would recognize that I knew something that they did not, but they know more about what it takes to live on receding glaciers than I do.

Does that make me a better man? Does that make them less intelligent? Give me awhile to learn that forest, and I might start bringing in game as reliably as they do, and put them through school here, and it would not be too long until they were hard at work in the lab where I work now.

Either way, we take it on faith. No one learns anything by being an irrational skeptic. I mean, if you look at Physicalist and his refusal to learn, then you see what a lack of intelligence can do. What a lack of faith does is far worse than a lack of intelligence.