Evidence

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In another thread FaithNoMore wrote "we have to go where the evidence leads us."

So, if we look at the evidence in nature, where does the evidence lead us? How does the evidence answer this question: how did all this get here?

(Can the evidence answer the metaphysical question, why is all this here?)

As to "How did this all get here" We certainly have a large part of that question answered. We have good theories on the Big Bang, the formation of the Galaxy, the formation of the solar system, the evolution of life on earth. So the evidence does in fact answer an enormous part of that question.

If your complaint is that not every single facet of information is known, it never will be. But think of the amount of information we have learned in just the last 150 years. It's staggering. The rate that we are learning new stuff about the universe and it's origins, the origins of life and it's subsequent evolution is accelerating. The gaps that believers use God to fill are shrinking constantly. We aren't capable of knowing everything. That is not a good reason to believe in God.