Evidence for the existence of God

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One day the man in Flatland is visited by a sphere. The sphere is a three-dimensional object just as we are, and it just so happens that it crosses Flatland right in the man's living room. Now if you will think about that for a moment, you will realize that for the man in Flatland a rather incredible thing has happened. A dot appears on the man's floor with no cause that the man in Flatland can understand. A dot in Flatland is matter! In figure 1, the man, himself, is made up of a series of dots. Just as a tennis ball dipped in paint and touched to a sheet of paper would produce a dot on the paper, so too has our dot which the man in Flatland calls matter appeared out of nothing (see figure 2). As the man in Flatland watches, the dot becomes a circle which continuously grows in size (see figure 3). You will see if a plane truncates (or slices) a sphere, it will produce a circle; and the deeper the sphere sinks into the plane, the larger the circle will become.

A lot of thought went into the OP and while it was fairly intelligent it was also very flawed. All matter contains information. The concept of microreversibility is based off of this. In fact information is limited by matter. the number of calculations that could be done per second by a computer is limited to its mass but we are far ways from even getting close to achieving that. The universe as a whole is impossible to fully catorgize since it would take the whole Universe to conatin the information. This does not prove the existence of god in any way. It only proves that the universe works this way the rest of the of the post is inductive reasoning it adds assumptions to meet the original proof.

The point of the article snipet from flatland is not to prove god exists either but to show that if god does exist we could never see the whole thing. If god were the sphere all you would every see is a dot or a circle. You would never be able to prove definitively it was a sphere(unless your name is euler) or just a growing circle.

To me God doesn't have to be proved since I don't think he could but I also do believe in god. I however can understand the veiwpoints of people who do not. I can understand that people do not see the neccesaty of an afterlife and I do not find it sad. In fact I do not even think it is a lonely thought. You live your life for your goals or the betterment fo others around you or however you want.

I think it is very important to be happy with the life you have and not spend your life chasing solely for the selfish reason of how people tellyou to get to heavan. Case in point I asked a nun once what if you are wrong and their is no god. She said well if I am wrong and there is no afterlife than I will never know and I am still happy with the life I have now. That to me is true faith. One that I respect.