RE: Evidence God Exists
January 24, 2011 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2011 at 12:50 am by OnlyNatural.)
(January 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm)Watson Wrote: First of all, what evidence could they have had? They lived in a time when the extent of their scientific knowledge was very little. The Bible was not written to scientifically explain the way in which God works, but to explain the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical processes of God and His relation to mankind.
How could they have had any evidence of supernatural processes and the existence of God if they didn't even understand the natural world? Religions and prophets and mythologies about gods and the afterlife have sprung up all over the world, at a time when no one had any other explanations, because they needed a way to make sense of their lives. It's apparent in the way the 'God' entity is anthropomorphized to have human-like emotions and relational needs.
(January 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm)Watson Wrote:Quote:I'm curious, do you believe that God was behind the processes of evolution, or that he shaped these processes so that we could all be here today?Yes.
That's interesting. I guess for me, that would be another unnecessary inference, since the process of evolution has everything necessary to unfold by itself.
(January 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm)Watson Wrote: If by 'witnesses' you mean others experiencing similar phenomena and connecting them in similar ways, than yes. I'd say there are probably millions, if not billions, of 'witnesses' to back me up.
No, I don't mean other people who have certain subjective experiences and attribute them to God. I mean somebody standing next to you when you saw your unambiguous sign of God's existence, and agreed that they, too, had witnessed something divine.
(January 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm)Watson Wrote: And who is to contradict me on my subjective view, or its validity? Everything we experience is subjective by nature, and must be as such. We are subjective entities. Why should one subjective claim hold anymore weight than another unless there is an objective which can be tapped into?
I'm not dismissing the validity of your inner experience, I'm sure you really do feel whatever you feel. I'm saying that no subjective claim is sufficient evidence of something that exists 'out there.' There is an objective real world out there, and it can definitely be tapped into. If something's 'true for you,' then no one can argue with that, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.