highwaystar101 said:
My atheist eyes are open and my atheist ears are ready to listen. When I see a fish I call it a fish. When I see evidence one way and not another, I can come to a logical conclusion as to what the situation is. Yet after 23 years on this speck of dust floating along with other specks of dust in this vast place we call the Universe, no one has ever posed a good argument to me for believing in a creator, let alone a personal God. |
I have been on this planet over 40 years now, and still likely have years to go. I have walked through a very wide range of these arguments regarding God, experience agnosticism, Catholicism, evangelicalism and fundamentalist Christian, Protestantism, churches of Christ, and current am off and involved with Eastern Orthodox Christianity. I know of a number of other religions also, read the Qu'ran, and also studied up on Buddhism. In all this, I found all that book knowledge will do squat to prove anything to anyone, and see that people see what they want to see, either way that they like.
Well, in regard to what you wrote, let me ask you a question: If you ran into God, how exactly would you know this being is God? Secondarily, why would it matter? Would ie be some sort of ego trip for yourself that you resolved, once and for all, the then the world would bow at your genius? Why would it matter, and how exactly does an argument proves anything exists? What sort of shape and form would this evidence take? And if it is some sort of personal magic trick done (a miracle), why would the being you wonder about resort to doing a magic trick just to placate your remote interest in knowing that s/he exists. Again, why would the existing argument matter?
The argument of how you would know is important, because you could then have anything which could be used, like a wrestling match perhaps:
To answer your question, there may be places to start, if you are interested. If it is merely that you see God potentially being some sort of government busybody who makes demands on you and will punish you later if you don't answer correctly, and isn't relevant, I am not sure you will find any evidence. However, you really do have an interest in the subject, you may want to look into legitimately why people believe there is a God, and what makes up people that do. For this, a good starting point would be a book called "How God Changes Your Brain".
Beyond this, I am not exactly sure why someone who created this universe would go way out of the way to just meet your one person's criterion for what would be a God. Or try to do anything for you, if you don't have a clue as to how to recognize such a being. I think it would be a bit absurd, for example, to find a signature with the word "God" written on it in English, on every single micro-organism, just so people who question whether or not God would exist, would believe in God existing.
