(July 4, 2012 at 1:15 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:(July 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: Wait, how do you know that if God has power over the affairs of this word, then there must be physical evidence He exists?
How else do you suppose he would have an influence? Unless it's a Deist god.
Doesn't matter is it is a deist God. If a God has power over current affairs in the world, then he must necessarily interact with the physical world.
It isn't that there must be physical evidence, but rather that physical evidence could be acquired. Hell, it would even be likely that there would exist somewhere evidence for a God.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell