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Originally Posted by Naked_Rectitude
Not at all, I believe there is evidence of God's existence in nature alone. What I said was that there is no testable proof.
God can reveal himself to anyone, but those who reject the supernatural will reject this revelation as being from God, because it is not coherent with a scientific world-view. This is my biggest critique - since if God does exist, and does reveal himself through the supernatural, those who reject it (supernatural), will in turn reject truth, and more importantly, God.
A lot of theists seem to think that people of science could never accept a God because the only proof God could give would be something that violates the rules of science. But scientists make new discoveries of things they thought they understood all the time. Scientists are the most open minded people in the world, they have to be.
100 years ago people would have thought it is impossible to walk on the moon. Some men of science may have agreed but were surely open to the possibility. As a man of science I have to be open to the possibility of a God. Nobody is contesting this. What we are contesting is that to date there has been no evidence of God, so for now we will continue to believe he doesnt exist until something proves he does.
The issue of God is not something as cut and dry as say, experiencing light speed travel, whereby
maybe it's possible and we just havent figured it out yet. Scientifically unproven theories like black holes and teleportation are at least
based on other science that has been proven in the past which lends credit to these theories being possibilities. However the entire premise of God from start to finish is entirely based on faith. There has never been proof, and God theories are just based on other God theories, not some previously provable result, so there is not credibility at all to the claim.