RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
August 3, 2015 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 1:53 am by robvalue.)
It seems to me that the success we have in modelling reality as predictable is very good evidence that any kind of "divine interaction" is similarly predictable, or non existent.
If God was screwing around constantly, actually making physical changes to things, we'd expect to see anomalies occurring all over the place. Our models would be incredibly makeshift and would fall apart often. That's not what we see. Of course there are still things we don't understand, and occasionally weird things happen. But these become desperate bastions of the God of the gaps and do not relate to the way most religious theists seem to talk about a God who is forever sticking his finger in the pie.
If God was screwing around constantly, actually making physical changes to things, we'd expect to see anomalies occurring all over the place. Our models would be incredibly makeshift and would fall apart often. That's not what we see. Of course there are still things we don't understand, and occasionally weird things happen. But these become desperate bastions of the God of the gaps and do not relate to the way most religious theists seem to talk about a God who is forever sticking his finger in the pie.
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