Theists - what convinced you?

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If you go to my posting of Richard Dawkins interview with Father George Coyne Tav you'll see him explain quite clearly from a Christians point of view about the issue of God's existence from the POV of creation/ science. He says of the question that: "it isn't satisfying at all". Theological and philosophical questioning doesn't really answer the question well enough. For the question is a scientific one. What you're searching for Tav is a "God of explanation" as Coyne puts it, and that God is not the Christian God. If you want to find explanation... then use science. Don't try to make ideas of God = scientific ideas. I hope that makes sense.

God has no explanatory value. What good is that then?

None. For explaining things.

How can you assert an object's existence and necessary traits if it's not backed by anything?

What object? What assertion?

Also, what relevance does this have to my initial questions?

It is the only answer to your question. If you want a different answer, you need to bark up the right tree.