(February 10, 2014 at 12:47 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Sure - anything can be read as evidence for "God", or Santa, or the Tooth Fairy, if you look. The question then becomes: is it convincing evidence? That's where intellectual honesty, critical thinking and the all-important bullshit filter comes in.
You have to look within, and without as well I mean you have the fine tuning of the universe and the natural constants and that kind of thing as well if you look, and understand what you're looking at. Revelation wise there are different choices there but the Bible has a lot going for it despite some of the flaws you can certainly point out. As long as the source/inspiration for it was God the details and things they may have got wrong about certain things is a little academic, it's not a huge faith destroying deal.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.