Is there proof for God's existence?

Answer 1

Yes, for a number of reasons:

1. Christian apologist C S Lewis referred to the fact that God provides sufficient evidence for any and all who wish to believe -that is to seekers. Jesus Himself said, ''seek and you will find''.

2. To an increasing number of people throughout the world, belief in God proves costly since many Christians are coming to faith in God in countries where they are in a minority. In other words they are going against the trend of unbelief whereas in times past many people may have been what Richard Dawkins called ''cultural Christians'' i.e. Christian by cultural inheritance but not in substance or personal commitment. They thus do not do so lightly, nor without good evidence. In other words, these people are indeed finding evidence of God's existence, evidence which is being tested in the ''fires of persecution.'' Since belief in God proves costly or difficult for many of these people, such as those in either communist lands such as China, or Islamic nations (albeit in this case a different understanding of who God is) such as Indonesia or Iran, they do not take this step lightly.

3. The Bible itself refers to the evidence of and for Godin the creation in the book of Romans chapter 1. Certainly, these statements are even truer today (if that be possible) than when they were written, given the amazing details uncovered by modern science, even down to the microscopic level.While it is certainly true that many have lost their way and abandoned faith in God explicitly due to the philosophy of naturalism as expressed through the modern consensus around the theory of evolution.

4. It is also true that a number of prominent atheists, including former Atheist Antony Flew, have abandoned Atheism for belief in God, even Christianity. Flew himself came to a deistic kind of faith while others have professed Christianity. Such people obviously consider that there is indeed sufficient evidence for God's existence.Flew gave his reasons for belief in God as relating to scientific discoveries around the complexity of DNA which he saw as logically demanding a designer. Others have come to God for different reasons, but, as in former times down through history, there is undoubtedly enough evidence. Flew's book ("There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.") provides details of why he changed his mind. According to Flew this was based on three aspects of nature viz. 1. that it obeys certain laws (is orderly) 2. the existence of life 3. the existence of nature itself.While Flew answered the above question on sufficient evidence for the existence of God in the affirmative and gave his reasons for doing so - others find different arguments persuasive.

Answer

According to Christianity the one true God who exists has not just created space and time but acted in this arena and interacted in human history with real people. The Bible records much of the alleged historical interaction between God and humankind and is thus able to be judged on this basis.

People have found masses of evidence both from science and Archaeology that the Bible is indeed a reliable historical document in details where it can be checked. Quite obviously God cannot be proved from this document but it's reliability has been vindicated so that what it says about God's existence and activity is also most likely to have happened.

This is also why many misotheists wish to discredit the Bible and spend a great deal of effort in an attempt to do so, since the reliable testimony of the Bible is very much in favor of God's existence.

Connected with this whole issue is the fact that many Bible accounts record actual eyewitness events where people have had dealings with God -the very direct dealings which people would demand as proof of God's existence in the present. Peter, in 2 Peter 1:16, 18 points out:

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty...And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with Him in the holy mount." (a reference to the Mount of Transfiguration).

Peter, and all other authors of the New Testament consistently demonstrate themselves to be reliable historians and witnesses both to God's existence and to what He did with and for them.

On Numbers

Some have suggested that counting numbers of believers and unbelievers proves God's existence or not. This is quite irrelevant to the case, just as it is to most scientific discoveries down through history which began as a minority view. The majority may be wrong. In any case, this argument only proves the Bible reliable, since the Bible, which speaks of God's existence states that many will fall away towards the end. So, many people not believing in God is thus, according to the Bible, a vindication of its prophetic accuracy - and its assertions about God Himself.

Answer:

There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject is ultimately one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few:
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.
2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.
3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by nature, sensed a need to worship something greater than themselves. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.

Answer 2

There are reasons to believe in God's existence, but there is no proof of God's existence, and that is as it should be. With proof, there could be no faith. That's the one thing we have over the angels: Angels know as a matter of fact, but humans must choose to believe. Angels know, and a third of them still rebelled. The relatively few humans who, immersed in a world where evil is rewarded and goodness seldom seems to go unpunished, choose goodness anyway and choose to believe in -- and submit to -- a God who remains unseen will one day judge angels. So that's the way the test is set up. We are responsible for what we believe because we ultimately believe what we want to.

Just a final note: The last book in the Christian canon (John's Revelation) seems to describe a time when men will see God, initially be terrified of Him, but ultimately rebel against Him anyway.

Answer 3

Look around you; there is evidence everywhere! Everything you see, smell, hear, taste, touch...God had created all of that. God has also changed many peoples' lives!

If you really have faith in Him, then you won't even need evidence.

Yes, God has changed many peoples' lives and he makes everything happen; there is evidence all around you. If you don't consider that evidence, well...if you really believe in Him then you won't need any evidence.

Also, different people wrote scrolls long, long ago telling of God and creation. Those people kept handing down the scrolls and we have many of them now, in The Bible.

People of faith believe by faith and not by sight. There is a lot of evidence that suggests the existence of a diety, but there is not likely ever to be found evidence that proves it, or evidence that disproves it.

Yes, there is! This world and humanity is His greatest evidence!

Yes there are Signs of God's existence everywhere you look. For instane the sun rises from the East, every day, not form the West? Why? Some one is controlling this act.

Also when you make huge and serious plans, you try to make sure everything would go the way you want them but then unexpected things happen that you could not have imgined and didnt prepare for it.Well,....obviously it was not in your plans, then Who messed up your plans?Must be some Higher power.

Ok lets say I show you a painted picture of Mona Lisa and tell you hey no one is behind this peice of work, it got painted itself! Would you believe it?

You ld say: You re crazy, there has to be some expert behing this amazing peice of work who should get all the credit! And You are right.

Now look at yourself, and billions of people in the world, who are all different and beautiful in different ways, and all have totally different finger prints.

And then you say they all came in to existence by accident and this cant be the work of an Amazing Creator. Its the most unfair thing inthis world to not to give credit and thanks to our True Creator and Lord who owns us. He brought you here with out your will and He will take you out, with out your will. If you were smart you would look for Him and you ld try to see what H ewants you to do in htis World and you would do everything to Please Him so when you meet Him he is not furious with you.

Answer 4

Evidence requires facts. Therefore, the only real evidence of God would be in miracles or his revealing himself.

So, in this case the evidence depends on what you believe in regard to God.

I believe that there is no factual evidence for the existence of God.

Faith is defined as, "Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without proof supporting the claim."

All religions share this trait of faith in common; religion is defined as, "Any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to."

Answer: The fact that somebodies life has been changed by the belief in a god hardly proves that there is one (a topic that I will not go into depth about at this point in time). Actually the only evidence (scientific, or otherwise) that can't be argued that supports the idea is that there are no laws of physics prohibiting the existence of such a being. Though the same can be said about wormholes, alternate universes, separate dimensions in our space-time, white holes, tachyons, goblins, unicorns, dragons, and talking pigs. Whether a god or gods exists is purely philosophical and entirely dependent on the belief of others. Whether I believe there is such a thing is non important, merely what you ,the individual, believes.

Answer

Yes, of course there is a great deal of evidence.

Although there are many many pieces of evidence that, taken as a whole strongly suggest that God exists - far more, in fact, that suggest he doesn't. In fact the atheistic approach is much more 'of faith' resting on very flimsy evidence, than the belief in a divine being, and usually those who pooh-pooh the idea of God are those who simply have not really looked into it, and have made up a blinkered mind even before considering the possibility seriously.

For the sake of space here, I think that I should limit the answer to two major areas that strongly suggest that God exists, and a few others on which i will briefly touch.

First is Creation. Now, of course, I don't mean the story in Genesis of 6 days of Creation, Adam and Eve and all that. As the vast majority of Christians believe, that is simply a wonderful story and has no scientific basis whatsoever. It talks of humanity and human nature and not the evidence for the earth's formation. They are well aware that Genesis speaks truth allegorically as a lovely Hebrew poem and should not be taken literally as is done by the Creationists of the USA and, to a lesser extent, just a few other Christian countries. The vast majority of Christians accept evolution which sits side by side with an allegorical Genesis without any problem. Nevertheless, the accepted scientific process of the creation of a universe still strongly suggests design.

As one simple example of this, the Anthropic Principle states that our universe has many fundamental physical constants (eg Plank's constant, Boltzman's Constant, the Gravitational constant and hundreds of others) that are of specific values that if they fluctuated by even a miniscule amount, the universe would not exist as it does; it would not produce stars which in turn produce the elements necessary for life (eg carbon) and so we would not exist. One could write off one constant being 'just right'. Two 'just right' would be a really spooky coincidence, but hundreds that are 'just right' cannot, by any reason or logic, be deemed as coincidence. Nor can the theories that try to explain this Principle (eg by using 'multiple universes') be called scientific, as they cannot, by their nature, be tested or verified. To many scientists the beauty of the laws of nature strongly suggest an element of design; moreover, their continued control of the universe suggest a constant involvement by the designer.

The second reason, I suppose, must be the effect that this God has on the billions of people who claim that their lives have been changed for the better by following Him. Yes, we have the idiotic fundamentalist moslems who believe that Allah calls them to murder, just as we had the evil Inquisition where so-called Christians burned 'witches' and heretics. Yet, the fact is that billions of ordinary people have had their lives changed unmeasureably for the good by following God. As a Christian, I can only speak for my own experience. In my case I examined the life and teaching of this carpenter from Nazareth and decided that his claims were such that I would pin my life to him. At first it was an 'evidence-sifting' bit of logic that made me look at Christianity, simply as, for the first time in my life, life seemed to make so much sense, but over the years as I accepted Christ as my own personal saviour, I realised just how my life turned upside down - never has life felt so good and worthwhile. As a logical, systematic science graduate and natural sceptic, it still amazes me how my life, my attitudes and my aspirations have been reshaped by this one man, and what I believe is his Holy Spirit working in my life. And I am not alone as billions out there over the last 2000 years have found exactly the same thing, once they took the plunge. One could even crudely say it was a 'scientifically repeatable test'

There are many other pieces of evidence. One could cite parameters of humanity that cannot be explained away by genetics or evolution. As one simple example, it is simply not good enough to say that a sunset is 'beautiful', or a piece of Beethoven 'inspiring' or the Rocky Mountains 'breathtaking'. One might reduce these things to their constituent colours, sound frequencies or minerals, but the ability of humans to appreciatebeauty is not short of miraculous and cannot be explained in evolutionary terms as making us 'more likely to survive'. One could also cite the intelligibility of the universe. You would think that evolutionary selection alone would produce human minds apt for coping with everyday experience, but that these minds should also be able to understand the subatomic world and general relativity goes far beyond anything of relevance to survival fitness. One could cite the stark fact that we all have an inate ability to discern right from wrong. We have real moral knowledge and that statements such as 'torturing children is wrong' is inbred into us as wrong, whatever our social background. We cannot simply cite genetics as the cause for that inate ability. As soon as one of us says we 'ought' to do something (I ought to ring grandma, I ought to give something to that relief fund...) then our inate understanding of what is morally right kicks in. Last, but not least, one could cite the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and, especially the greatest miracle of all in the resurrection (for which there is an overwhelming amount of evidence - so much that even Richard Dawkins refuses to mention it in his blinkered atheistic rants!) as being the ultimate reflection and window on a loving God.

Yes, belief in God still boils down to a matter of faith - but in my case it was originally an informed decision based on evidence. Now it's quite different as I look back on my life so far. It's not simply 'blind' faith, but 'informed' faith. Yes, I still have doubts at times, but for me life makes much more sense in looking at it through the eyes of a believer in the Creator of life in the first place. As they say, don't knock it until you've tried it yourself.

Answer 5

The answer is in your question.

Main Entry: 1proof

Pronunciation: 'prüf

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English prof, prove, alteration of preve, from Anglo-French preove, from Late Latin proba, from Latin probare to prove -- more at PROVE

1 a : the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact b : the process or an instance of establishing the validity of a statement especially by derivation from other statements in accordance with principles of reasoning.

To answer your question; NO, there is no "Proof" that god exists. There is no proof, nor can there be proof. Believers must reduce the argument to a discussion of faith, or must use the ubiquitous circular reasoning that "The bible is true because God said it", and "God must be real because it's in the bible". Developing these lines of thinking amounts to a systematic "dumbing down" of the intellect, an intellect that Christians will claim was given to us by god.

Proof in the scientific sense can only come with tests that have several criteria. They must:

• Have a measurable observable outcome (Physical change not just emotion or "feeling") that has an agreed on meaning (What means "yes" and what means "no")
• Use standard scientific equipment (No deity-o-meters from Atlantis allowed)
• Be done in a manner that is devoid of bias (Staff doing the test should not know what the results, if any, would prove)
• Have results analyzed by a separate team skilled in data interpretation including the identification of false positive and false negative results
• Be reproducible by any laboratory with proper equipment and certification
• Have QA and QC controls like double blind testing, blanks, peer reviewed etc.

These are the same criteria used to review the efficacy of drugs and medical treatments. There has never been any proof in the scientific sense for the existence of any deity done by methods that meet these criteria.

Answer:

There are tens of proofs (indications; pointers) for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject is ultimately one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few:
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.
2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.
3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by nature, sensed a need to worship something greater than themselves. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.
4) Tradition: There are events in human history which cannot be explained without God. Many people have their subjective stories that bend them in the direction of theism, but there are also historical events such as the Giving of the Torah, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.
5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or Atheism, but belief in God.
6) Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:
a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality. There is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.
c). The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself to create. The pre-dated form would then need a sufficient explanatory cause, ad infinitum.
d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given enough time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe coming into existence are not very good, given enough time, it could happen.
- This option is a sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" is used to describe possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being the agent of creation of anything, since chance is not an agent. What are the real chances of the universe created by chance? Not a chance. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)
e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a restating of option #1 (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of #4. In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."

Answer 6

Yes by the powers that Jesus had! Jesus was the son of God and did many miracles to show to believe in the one true God like turning water to wine of Saving a Young boy who had died 5 minutes before he showed up and bringing him back to life. He gave his life to us on Easter then 3 days later he appeared for 40 days and nights to walk upon the earth.

Another answer No, it is not possible to prove whether or not God exists. "Proving" somethings existence involves observing, measuring and testing, then repeating the process to confirm the results. God cannot be observed, sampled or measured in any way. Similarly, one cannot "prove" that something like goodness or evil exists. Such things are "intangible."

Another answer In Judaism, the existence of G-d is proved by faith, but also science. As science advances it agrees more and more with the Torah, human beings, and what happened in the Hebrew Bible. G-d's existence becomes harder to believe as we evolve, but thanks to science it actually proves what is said of God.

Answer If you did not see a miracle with your own eyes, "observing" His power at work. Being Baptized with the Holy Spirit are my proof because I am an eyewitness. I prayed may months for God to real Himself to me, He had mercy on me and did.

Please remember that Faith is a gift God, vs belief. They are not the same thing.

If you want some physical belief, there is the Shroud of Turin, which scientist have concluded could not be forged and the image could have only of been created by an event horizon. Basically the body was floating weightless when Jesus was raised from the dead and the image was left.

Answer 7

There is no absolute proof of God, but there is very strong evidence that points toward his existence.

The following will show some evidence for God's existence:

I'll start with looking at the Bible, and seeing what science says about it.

Genesis 1:1 (first book, chapter, and verse of the bible) says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."

If you look at that, it says three things:

1. There was a beginning

2. There is a creator

3. There is design

Looking at the first of those:

The universe is constantly expanding. The further things are out, the more they accelerate. The following picture demonstrates, although disproportionally, this concept (A, B, and C being galaxies moving away from each other):

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(ignoring the .s)

If you watch this in reverse, though... eventually they'll meet at one point... this shows that there was a beginning.

There's also the fact that there is a limited amount of resources on the earth. The sun and all the starts convert hydrogen into helium every second.... eventually there would be no hydrogen to convert. On the other hand, hydrogen is the most plentiful gas in existence.

Now for the second:

John 4: 24 - God is a Spirit

Numbers 23:19 - God is not a man

Jeremiah 23:23-24 - Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away?

2 Chronicles 2:6 - "Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.

Acts 17:28 - 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'

Matthew 16:17 - "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven."

As you can see, the Bible clearly states that God is:

Spirit

Light

Not man

Not limited by space

Next, I'll show a story from the book "Flatland" (by Edwin Abbott) that makes the nature of God appear very simply:

We, obviously, are three dimensional beings:

We have length, width, and height.

Flatland, though, is a 2 dimensional place with 2 dimensional figures. These people only have length, and height.

The Story of Flatland:

--- 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. ---

Now if you think of a tennis ball passing through a piece of paper (in the view of someone that can only see forward in a place with absolutely no width), first there's going to be a dot, then as it slowly gets towards the middle, it'll get bigger, and once it passes the middle get smaller and smaller until it eventually disappears.

We all know two things: Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

This is exactly what happens, though:

This ball, which is matter, appears out of nothing, and disappears after it's passed through Flatland.

--- Let us suppose now that the man in Flatland begins talking to the sphere, and he says to the sphere: "What is it like to be a sphere? The sphere says, "I'll tell you what it's like; draw a circle on your floor." This is not easy for the man in Flatland to do. His perception of a circle is a constantly curving line that returns to its origin, but he cannot see all of the circle at once. He can only see the side of the circle facing him. The only way he could see a whole circle would be to be inside the circle, and if he got inside he could never get out. People in Flatland commit suicide by drawing circles around themselves that they can never get out of. Because of this it takes along time for him to draw the circle. The sphere is most impatient with all this because he could have done it instantly. Finally the circle is completed and the sphere says, "Now what I want you to do is to rotate the circle! What he has in mind is that the man in Flatland will rotate the circle about its diameter producing a sphere, but what the man in Flatland does is to rotate the circle about its circumference, spinning it like a record on a record player. "No, no--rotate it the third way,' says the sphere. "There is no third way you fool," cries out the man in Flatland, and for him this is true. There is no third way, no up and down in a thickness direction, and absolutely no way for him to comprehend what the sphere is talking about or what the sphere is. The only thing that he can understand is the world or dimension in which he lives. ---

Now the reason that I have told you this little story is to give you a foundation by which you can understand God. When you read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1), you are reading a description analogous to Flatland.

The concept is that, a God, who is in a higher dimension than are we, a God who has the same kind of relationship to us which the sphere had to Flatland, that, this kind of being touched our little "Flatland," so to speak, and in violation of all of our laws of science created matter out of nothing. God is so superior to us, he exists in such a higher dimension than do we that what is natural and ordinary to him is miraculous to us. The Bible recognizes this concept and uses it in every single description of God.

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Another good comparison for God is time (A fourth dimension)

We can't see time, we can't feel time, we can't taste it, hear it, smell it, but we know it exists.

If you look at the evidence, though, you can see that it exists. The same thing is true for God and the bible. Now I believe that God created time, and the Bible seems to support this:

Here are some more scriptures to describe God in relation to time.

2 Peter 3:8 - But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Psalm 90:4 - For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 102:27 - But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

Acts 1:7 - He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

Now if you think about what time limits and causes, this is pretty much what you'll come up with

Being in one place

Deterioration

Death

Now if we are in "Flatland" and God is in a higher dimension both us, and time, which we know him to be from the Bible, then none of the above factors can apply to God, meaning he is eternal, never changing, and everywhere.

Conclusion

If God isn't limited by any of the dimensions, then this explains both how he could scientifically create the dimensions and everything in them

And… The Third - Design

I'll start this section off with odds us being on a life-supporting planet by sheer chance.For Starters: We have to be in the right type of galaxy.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is classified as a "Type B" Spiral Galaxy. This type of galaxy very rare though.

About 80% of galaxies are classified as "Elliptical," which is mainly made of gasses, contain much older stars, contain very little dust, and limited amounts of solid material.

Many other problems are true with other galaxies also, the Seyfert galaxy, for example, explodes every so often.

Galaxies include the Spiral, Elliptical, Irregular (such as the Seyfert galaxies), and Barred Spiral

Barred Spiral Elliptical Irregular Spiral

The Odds of being in the right type of galaxy by chance is about 1%.We also have to be the right place in the galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy is shown on its side (see below). The two areas barred off from the rest show the area which we have to be. If we were in the green area, there would be too much matter. The gravitational forces would be too strong and pull the solar system apart. If we were in the red area, it would be too hot, and there would be too many black holes.

Turned on it's side, our galaxy looks sort of like two egg's over easy back to back. In this galaxy (which, just for an example is say, 4 inches wide, we have to be inside one of four half-pie shaped areas slightly bigger than a quarter inch big.

The perimeter of these area's are called Axial Gravity Lines

The area of the zones within the Axial Gravity Lines makes up only 12 cubic light years. (Compared to the 15,750,000 cubic light years that our galaxy is.) This 12 cubic light years is about 1 1,300,000th of the whole galaxy.

We also have to have the right type of star.

Now there are some stars that are microwave emitters - these are extremely hot and active x-rays catastrophic for life

Blue hot stars are without the ability to sustain a living system

Most of stars in space are dwarf stars. These make up about 90-95% of stars.

The Hubble telescope (1996) showed that 70% of stars are Red Dwarfs, 10% are White Dwarfs, and about 15% are K Dwarfs. Most of these stars are too small and cool to support our solar system.

Some Red Dwarfs, such as Betelgeuse (in Orion), are much too big. This star is about 100 times the size of our solar system.

Over 90% are bianaries, or trianaries, (two or three stars orbiting each other).

Scientists are saying that the odds of having a star (or stars) that can support our solar system are as much as 1 in 25,000,000

There are also black holes to deal with.

A Black hole can suck a blue star, 100 times the size of our sun, into something the size of a thumbtack. If you shone a light at it, the light would be caught in it and disappear. We actually have a picture of a black hole destroying light.

The size of it is about the size of the earth's orbit around the sun, and the galaxy being sucked into it is going at about 30 times as fast as the earth orbits the sun.

Now the black hole closest to the earth is about 8,500 light years away, which makes it nothing of a threat.

The odds of being far enough away from one is around 1 in 150.

There are also comets to factor in.

A while ago the Levy Shoemaker comet looked like it might hit the earth. The comet had to get by Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus first though. The comet hit Jupiter and split into 17 pieces. This comet was actually larger than earth.

The odds of us having four comet sweeping planets is about 1 in 100

Putting together all those odds:

Being in the right type of galaxy 1 in 100

Being in the right place in the galaxy 1 in 100

Having the right kind of star 1 in 100

Being the right distance from that star 1 in 100

Having the right planetary mass 1 in 100

Having the right planetary spin 1 in 100

Having the right planetary tilt 1 in 100

Having comet sweeping planets 1 in 100

Not being near a black hole 1 in 100

Having a large solitary moon 1 in 100

Possessing a magnetic field capable

of shielding 1 in 100

Total Odds: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 x 1020)

Now those odds have been greatly reduced from what was discussed to ensure that it's a realistic amount, and only include 10 out of about 47 factors. This is about half of what is considered impossible (1050).

Scientists, when adding all of it up, have gotten numbers as high as 10700 for us being on a life sustaining planet by chance, which is believed to far exceed the number of planets in existence.

Another example of design is life itself:

In 1953, a scientist, trying to create the beginnings of life, took a few gasses, which he inserted into his contraption. This contraption is pretty much a pipe in the shape of a square with a chamber in the bottom (filled with water), and the right side (filled with 4 gasses), with electrical charges going into the gasses. He believed that the original gasses on earth were CH 4, NH3, H2O, and H2. (which, as it turns out, weren't the original gasses on the earth). So he put those into the chamber, added electricity, which he used in replacement of lightning, and water at the bottom. This scientist did manage to make amino acids (the building blocks of protein), although I'll point out once again, most of the information he used has been shown to be invalid.

To this day, scientists have continuously failed to produce proteins with random combinations of amino acids. (as to show that proteins can be created by chance).

We now know how to make a protein with amino acids.

Using E. coli Protein as an example, I'll show the odds of one being created by chance.

To make E. coli Protein, 268 amino acids have to be combined in a specific order. The odds of those 268 amino acids combining in that order, by chance is 1 in 10160, which would take about 10243 years to produce by chance.

These are just the odds of a protein being made by chance, leaving out almost every other component of life.

If you combine all of the data shown so far, it gives you a good idea of the odds of chance creating life versus God creating it.

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

ah, the old debate of proof vs lack of. There has been many scientific (meaning not just in the bible, actual people doing real research) and historical proofs in the stories of the bible, including the star appearing when Jesus was born, the noahic flood, and even Eden. The problem is, most people who ask for proof, are saying so as a rhetorical question, and really don't care what you say after that. It's not so much a question of is there proof as much as it is, does anyone care?

Of course, The Holy Bible.. LOLJKS, nope.

Answer 9

There is no physical proof. Though those that believe in a god do not require it.

There still has been no verifiable, testable prooffor the existence of any god or other supernatural being. None.

Answer 10

To an increasing number of people throughout the world, there is not enough evidence that God exists. In fact many people who examine the purported evidence say that there is no actual evidence for the existence of God at all.