The existence of God

[Jehanne]

“Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.” -- Mark Twain

Faith - Biblically,  is trusting in something you cannot explicitly prove. Faith contains two aspects: intellectual assent and trust. Intellectual assent is believing something to be true. Trust is actually relying on the fact that something is true.

You're walking in a forest and come across a bush that is on fire; off in the distance is a recently passed thunderstorm. What is the most likely cause of the fire:

1) A lightning strike from the thunderstorm released enough activation energy to begin the combustion of the cellulose in the bush. The resulting fire is the rapid and uncontrolled oxidation of the bush.

2) An arsonist hiding nearby poured ethanol on the bush, and with a lighter that he was seen purchasing on video at a nearby convenience store, startied it on fire.

3) An erratic captain of a fully stealthed alien spaceship very briefly entered our Earth's atmosphere and discharged his ship's short range particle weapons, which ignited the bush, before being relieved of duty by the first officer, who commanded the ship to leave our Solar System at high velocity.

4) Two invisible spirits were fighting nearby, and some of their spiritual energy ignited the bush. Neither spirit was harmed in the encounter but they later agreed to attend therapy to be overseen by an elder spirit.

5) God willed the bush to start on fire, and so it did.