(May 3, 2015 at 3:20 pm)PhilosophicalZebra Wrote: An interesting question to ponder is what would qualify as substantial enough evidence to convince atheists like us of the existence of something greater? If the very simplistic scenario of a big man with a white beard appearing before us was contemplated, most of us would probably still believe it to be more rational to attribute this to some sort of hallucination; thus, this leads to the question: what would be enough to convince us non-believers? I think it's a difficult but interesting thought.
Honestly, the bar would be set a bit lower if God hadn't been hiding for the last 2,000 years and had spend all the time before and since the Biblical events also appearing to other peoples throughout the world.
At the end of the day, the Bible was written over a period of 800 or so years, and everything up until the Epistles takes place in an area on the globe the size of a dime. If it looks like an ancient religion specific to a single culture and it smells like an ancient religion specific to a single culture, it probably is.
The chance that this one specific religion (or any one of these religions) is correct seems incredibly remote. I mean, if God is real, why are we even discussing if he's real?
