The history of mankind indicates the existence of God as He sent prophets and every prophet proved that he was sent by God through miracles that people had seen and believed. Yet some did not believe, like Pharaoh: Pharaoh said, ‘Haman, build me a tall tower so that I may reach the ropes that lead. The ways into the heavens - so that I may look at the deity of Moses; but indeed, I think he is a liar."
The creations are witness to the existence of a Creator, because the mind cannot imagine an effect without an influence. So, how about this great universe? How is exists in its various conditions and the vastness of its outskirts, without a Maker or a Protector?!
Man loves life, but he cannot escape death. Who is the mortal?
Dr Stephen Unwin has used a 200-year-old formula to calculate the probability of the existence of an omnipotent being. He has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists. Despite his findings, Dr Unwin maintains that he is personally around 95% certain that God exists.
Brian Dennert wrote;
WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD?
In this post I want to explore some of other reasons that not only point to the existence of God, but show the evidence of God outweighs the evidence that He does not exist and also to remind us that both those who say God exists and those who say He does not exist but provide evidence to justify their claim and, ultimately, combine both reason and faith.
Robert Nelson (1944 – December 15, 2018) wrote:
A number of scientists, such as Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, “see no conflict between believing in God and accepting the contemporary theory of evolution,” as the American Association for the Advancement of Science points out.
For my part, the most recent developments in evolutionary biology have increased the probability of a god.
The famous English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon made an intriguing assertion about atheism. Here are three versions:
(1) A little philosophy makes men atheists, though a great deal would cure them of Atheism.
(2) A little knowledge drives man away from God, but deeper knowledge brings him back.
(3) A little knowledge may take us away from God, but further knowledge will bring us back to him.
Brian Dennert wrote: Nature’s Regular Patterns
One of the interesting things I have discovered over the years is that key scientific principles can’t be scientifically proven. What I mean is that science is based on the principle that there are “laws” of nature and that things that happen today will happen again tomorrow if the circumstances are the same. If this was not the case, we could never conduct scientific experiments. Philosopher David Hume and others have noted that there is no scientific basis for this — it is just the way things are. In The Reason for God, Tim Keller notes, “To put it another way, science cannot prove the continued regularity of nature, it can only take it by faith” (p. 136). I think this is important for two reasons. First of all, it raises the question, “Why is this the case?” Again, I think it points to a creator, some sort of designer who made the world operate a certain way (in fact, this Christian belief has often been viewed as laying a foundation for scientific inquiry). Second, it shows that all people live by faith and have certain beliefs that cannot be proven; it is not science vs. faith, but rather what are the basic principles on which we base all of our beliefs.
Brian Dennert wrote:
"Does God exist, or doesn’t He?
This is a question most of us wrestle with at some point in our lives, and we should not be ashamed to admit that. But at the end of the day, it seems there are good reasons to believe in God and also more and better reasons to believe in the existence of God, with belief in God making more sense of the world we see around us. If the God of the Bible exists, then we would expect to see the sort of world in which we live – both in terms of the design, but also in terms of the fact that this world seems broken and in need of a solution and that no human can solve, yet we still are longing for this".
Robert Nelson wrote:
Recognizing that he could not reconcile his own scientific materialism with the existence of a nonphysical world of human consciousness, a leading atheist, Daniel Dennett, in 1991 took the radical step of denying that consciousness even exists.
Another leading philosopher, Thomas Nagel, wrote in 2012 that, given the scientifically inexplicable – the “intractable” – character of human consciousness, “we will have to leave [scientific] materialism behind” as a complete basis for understanding the world of human existence.
As an atheist, Nagel does not offer religious belief as an alternative, but I would argue that the supernatural character of the workings of human consciousness adds grounds for raising the probability of the existence of a supernatural god.
Robert Nelson wrote:
Recognizing that he could not reconcile his own scientific materialism with the existence of a nonphysical world of human consciousness, a leading atheist, Daniel Dennett, in 1991 took the radical step of denying that consciousness even exists.
Another leading philosopher, Thomas Nagel, wrote in 2012 that, given the scientifically inexplicable – the “intractable” – character of human consciousness, “we will have to leave [scientific] materialism behind” as a complete basis for understanding the world of human existence.
As an atheist, Nagel does not offer religious belief as an alternative, but I would argue that the supernatural character of the workings of human consciousness adds grounds for raising the probability of the existence of a supernatural god.
History of atheism
Atheist philosophical thought began to appear in Europe and Asia in the sixth or fifth century BC. The early philosophers were not atheists, but they tried to explain the world in terms of the processes of nature. Philosophers have tried to explain the formation and evolution of the world by the chance movements of atoms in infinite space.
During that time criticism of the religious establishment became more common in Christian-majority countries, but it did not means atheism.
The first book in the modern era dedicated to promoting atheism was written by the French Catholic priest Jean Meslier (1664-1729). The first published declaration of atheism in Britain was in 1782. The thinker Charles Bradlow was elected to the British Parliament and is the first outspoken atheist to sit in Parliament, where he participated in the amendment of the Oath Act.
In 1844, Karl Marx, an atheist political economist, wrote: Religion is the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Marx believed that people turn to religion in order to relieve the pain caused by the reality of social situations.
Atheism is found in the twentieth century in a group of broader philosophies in the Western tradition, such as existentialism, objectivism, secular humanism, Marxism, feminism, and others. A.J. Ayer emphasized the meaninglessness of religious statements, noting his adherence to empirical science.
Although revolutionary France had taken steps toward state atheism, it was left to the communist and fascist regimes of the twentieth century to establish atheism as a central component of politics.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin actively sought to persecute the church. In Italian Fascism, the atheist Mussolini was a strong opponent of the Church. But he later modified his position, allowed the teaching of religion in schools and agreed with the papacy in a treaty.
In reaction to the rise of state atheism, religious organizations, such as the Catholic Church, were among the fiercest opponents of communist regimes. During this period, Christianity in the United States retained its popular appeal, and during the Cold War, Thomas wrote that the United States often described its opponents as "atheist communists", reinforcing the view that atheists were unpatriotic.
However, there were some notable atheists at this time. In 1963 the American Atheists organization was founded. It dedicated to advocating the complete separation of church and state. In the early twenty-first century, the promotion of secularism and atheism continued in the Western world, aided by organizations, which led to an increase in the number of people who do not belong to any religion. In addition, anti-religious books became bestsellers.
If you wish to seek God seek Him with all your heart and you will find him and then have your evidence.
Seeking mans wisdom is foolishness to God, we are all fools compared to Gods wisdom. He chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise not the intellect of the prideful man and his ego.
God gave you a conscience. If you were made from sludge or bacteria then monkeys etc how can you trust your brain? Your thoughts and your cognition? Evolution requires a lot more faith then the faith you need to believe in God. To believe nothing created everything is not logical and chaos brought perfect design and order isn’t either.
Don’t sit on the fence…. Look at the creation. You are without excuse. Choose God or don’t. You have free will but you are not free from the consequences of what you choose.
People "feel" the existence of God, feeling the sentiment of love is evidence of the fact that humans have an inherent need to satisfy a desire to be a part of the greater good, God is the greater good. Unfortunately, some people require direct evidence of a divine presence in the form of some extra-sensory perception in order to believe that God exists. It's tragic, but unavoidable.
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