RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
March 31, 2016 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2016 at 8:31 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 31, 2016 at 1:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The following evidence only counts if one already believes in both an intelligibly ordered universe and the efficacy of human reason. Someone that doubts either of these will not accept the evidence offered. However if both are accepted then the existence of God logically follows from the following observations:
Some causal sequences are essentially ordered.
Effects follow regularly from specific causes.
Some beings better exemplify their kind than other beings of the same kind.
There is something rather than nothing.
Some things gain their existence, preserve it, then cease to exist.
Great!
Then universe creating pixies do exist! I always suspected...
On a serious note, could you please define "intelligibly ordered universe" as you are using it?
Without reading too much into that phrase, I am detecting some possible flaws.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
