What is your best argument for the existence of God?

JohnDB said:

Oh....forgot Evolution....somewhat. I touched it but didn't completely denounce it.

We, as a planet with flora and fauna....are not evolving. We are devolving. (As is consistent with physical laws)

We do not have the same number of plants and animals as this planet once had.

Silphium (a plant) is now extinct. Same with Wooly Mammoth. Same with Dodo Birds. We almost lost the American Bison. Lots of others are also gone.

If we were evolving we would have lots of new creatures stemming from existing lines with sentience....but we don't. We are losing them rather rapidly. The Roman Empire, in its thirst for silver, destroyed the environments of both Spain and Britain. Forever lost...

Chernobyl did not improve the environment in Russia....it destroyed it too and everything there is still toxic for miles around. Same thing with ocean dumping grounds for garbage and toxic waste.

Just saying....our thirst for rare earth metals and refined lithium are doing the same things. Just not to America itself.

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Society is also devolving in the edumancation system.

St. SteVen said:

What is the best argument for God's existence?
- The Ontological Argument,
- The Argument from Personal Experience,
- The Kalam Cosmological Argument,
- the Teleological Argument,
- Paschal's Wager, and
- the Moral Argument.

See the OP for definitions and explanations.
Or offer your own. Thanks.

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I like the Fine tuned universe argument best.

What is your best argument for the existence of God?​

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Depands on who you think God is !

Most people in regards God are on the page regarding their own god's ! like in that they say, Oh my god !

Just look around you and at yourself ! and see who created all ?

Most people want to live in a fantacy land ! for they have not Virtue in fact !

Once one does have Virtue then one is not just a simple dupe moron ! such a one can grow and come to abide in Grace !

All creation is proof of God=existence of God.

What is the origin of life - there is still no explanation and its completely unknown and I am not talking about just people.Where does that spark of life come from?God is the only explanation there is no other.

I have heard seeding by aliens but where did the aliens come from you end up with the exact same problem your just passing it along you need a beginning where did life come from what is that spark of life..

ProDeo said:

I like the Fine tuned universe argument best.

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What is even stronger is "where did the universe come from in the first place."
Skeptics have and will always have an impossible task to explain the creation of the universe.

For example, some identify the debate between Evolution and Creation. But Evolution is the slight, mindless modification of that which already exists. Creation begins when it is sans (without) creation. Creationists use the word sans to avoid making a finite temporal statement "before" creation.

The argument that Larry Sanger is the co-founder of Wikipedia, and he holds a PhD in philosophy from the Ohio State University, used to return to Christianity:-
the fact that the arguments taken together are far more persuasive than I had understood. Individually, the arguments might seem relatively weak. As I said, the Argument from Contingency only shows that a necessary being exists. The Argument from Causality shows only that the universe had a cause outside of itself. The Argument from Design shows only that the universe has some sort of designer or other. An Argument from Morality might add that the designer is benevolent, to some degree, in some way, but not even necessarily personal. But what happens when we combine all the arguments to make a unified case for the existence of God? I’m not sure the idea had ever dawned on me, certainly not with its present vividness. Taken together, the arguments point to a necessary being that exists apart from space, time, and matter. This is the very cause of the universe, which was designed according to orderly abstract laws. Ever more complex properties emerge, one from another, with great beauty and rationality—rationality that exhibits various mind-like features. This order can even be described as good, a cosmos indeed, because life and its preservation seem to be part of the plan, and life is the very standard of value.
From Wikipedia co-founder, who holds PhD in philosophy, returns to Christianity

The words might beyond most of us, but he is saying the collective arguments for God together make sense.

KUWN said:

What is even stronger is "where did the universe come from in the first place."
Skeptics have and will always have an impossible task to explain the creation of the universe.

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Yeah, they believe in a small, hot, dense bubble with the size of a grain of corn which exploded and created one billion galaxies, each galaxy containing one billion stars with planets. What a big faith the skeptics have.

Then about the Fine tuned universe argument and its numbers in a nutshell, more math -

Scientists calculated the number of physical constants (43) in the universe that are needed to make life possible. Let's for the easiness say each of the 43 constants can have a value from 1 to 100 with an error margin of (say) -10 / +10

We take the first (of the 43) constant, its value (say) is 50, then if the value would have been <40 or >60 no life is possible in the universe, thus there is already a chance of 80% (1/5) that we not would have been here. Then make the calculation for 43 constants, meaning a chance for life to exist would be 5 to the power of 43, the number 1 / 1136868377216160297393798828125, the chance for life in the universe is almost zero, except if SOMEONE did the math and set the 43 parameters with the right values.

Proof for the existence of God?

Should be, but wait, the answer of (some) scientists, the speculation our universe is not the only universe, the so called multiverse. With no shred of evidence they are basically saying, look, we are not impressed with the 1 / 1136868377216160297393798828125 number there are probably more than 1136868377216160297393798828125 universes and thus it's just a matter of chance one universe has the right values for life. And so their world is okay again, no God.

Sad, isn't it.

ProDeo said:

Should be, but wait, the answer of (some) scientists, the speculation our universe is not the only universe, the so called multiverse. With no shred of evidence they are basically saying, look, we are not impressed with the 1 / 1136868377216160297393798828125 number there are probably more than 1136868377216160297393798828125 universes and thus it's just a matter of chance one universe has the right values for life. And so their world is okay again, no God.

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Of course, multi universes still need a creator for all of them. You are right, not a shred of evidence. Not to mention that such a thought only brings irrationality into the discussion.

Tell me: does God want to remain mysterious? What causes men to believe more - 'revelation' or 'mystery'?

Maybe this corollary will help: if there was no God, you would never have peace about believing in Him.

I'm the greatest proof of God's existence. Just push my Jesus button and stand back. My testimony is my greatest gift to talk about Jesus and all he has done for me.

Gottservant said:

Tell me: does God want to remain mysterious? What causes men to believe more - 'revelation' or 'mystery'?

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Mystery is God's gift to stimulate SEEK and you will FIND.

Revelation is God's gift that encourages us to continue FORWARD in the Kingdom.