(May 10, 2025 at 4:25 pm)Alan V Wrote: he should be
Here's a good example of what we were saying earlier about evidence.
Objective evidence, as we pointed out, is never some sort of pure and direct perception, but always facts that are interpreted in light of prior beliefs. Observations of the world are "theory laden."
So apparently you have an image or conception of what an omnipotent God would be like, and then you look for indications in the world of whether that God exists. And of course you find none.
Then a question you could ask would be: is my conception of God the same as the one that intelligent Christians hold? When I look at the world and interpret it as lacking signs of God, am I looking for the right kind of thing?
Here is where reading the right books can help. Dawkins and Hitchens, for example, conceived of God in the simplest, most childish way possible, and then (no surprise) decided that the God they had imagined didn't exist. But there are better books.
