Christian Paradox

[Watson]

And you are aware that his techniques and methodology are even today being impemented in forensic science, right?

I don't get how Sherlock Holmes' methods provides evidence of God.

I think you're reading this the wrong way. Many of us HAVE come from religious upbringings, and we took the word of God as true. This would be assuming God's existence first. It is only through examination of evidence and reason have we come to the conclusion that such a prospect is highly unlikely. It is through the methods of science that we can detect that it was not a murder, but a suicide, to perpetuate the analogy.

Do you understand?

I do understand, and also, I never said that Sherlock Holmes' methods proved the existance of God. What I was saying is that he had to believe in the indivdual he was tracking down, and then look for evidence of their existance.

Not only this, what you are saying is that many of you were initially believers, but that you examined the 'evidence' and found none for proof of God. What I am saying is that you do not understand God, and you are looking for the wrong individual evidence of him. You are looking for scientific evidence where there is none to be had.

When Sherlock Holmes looked for evidence of a wooden legged man in the Sign of the Four, for instance, he knew he was looking for a wooden-legged man because of his clients claim that their father had shot a wooden legged man out of fear, and then been killed later. Sherlock then found evidence of this man in the form of footprints where one 'foot' was just a circle; the print of a wooden stump.

You must understand the individual you are looking for evidence of first, then look for evidence which proves their individuality and existance.