(February 21, 2017 at 1:26 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Since I was once an atheist I will say that looking for evidence in nature will never suffice. The evidence for God is about nature not within it.
This is somewhat similar to the response I would give.
In all honesty, there isn't much that would ever make me believe in god...at least it wouldn't happen because some being came riding down from the skies in golden chariots.
The issue I have with believing in god, or making any kind of assertions about the metaphysical, is that it is precisely that. Metaphysical. My epistemological framework is ultimately empirical. Everything that I can know/believe/assert/etc, is possible, in part, because of my observations. However my observations all take place within the physical world, so I can't ever have evidence for anything metaphysical.
What would it take for me to believe in god? A tremendous unraveling of how I perceive the world. I would have to at the very least be capable of believing that knowledge does not require observation.
