Belief and Knowledge

[bennyboy]

Negative....not an argument from ignorance....there is no explanation which defies us because we know these effects do not have local causes. I am claiming the observance of effects without local causes is exactly something we should expect to see if an unseen God exists and interacts with this world.

Maybe, but only if you're trying really hard to justify the God idea.

You don't follow a rational idea from the top down:
-"_____ is exactly something we should expect to see if magic space monkeys exist and interact with the world."
-"_____ is exactly something we should expect to see if interdimensional space beings exist."
-"_____ is exactly something we should expect to see if we were living in the Matrix, and details at the finest level were determined with a random number generator."

You can expect anything you want when you're making stuff up and looking at it retroactively. And that makes the God idea just as valid and relevant as magic space monkeys.