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Quote by: HelioPrime  That comment shows your own ignorance.
Your basically asking for evidence for god when you very well no there is no direct phyical evidence. |
The universe is evidence of God. The universe is ordered and this is evidence of God. To know God is to study nature, and this is completely different from studying a holy book with the belief that handed down myths created in ignorance, are good information about God. Cicero and Jefferson would both say, you got to check out what you believe, before you can be confident in what you know. That is using your own experience to check out truth, as opposed to accepting it on faith. To know God is to study nature.
In answer to the question of why hold this God exist? There are many reasons for this. An important reason to acknowledge the existance of God is, we do not know everything, and God is the X factor. We learn far more when we begin with the idea that we don't know much, than if we begin with the idea that we already know all we need to know. We need that X factor.
People who believe they can know absolute truth and "God's will" and absolutely dangerous. On the other hand, with reason we can have good moral judgement. This moral judgement rest in the belief of cause and effect. This is a belief in universe laws. Reason, is the controlling force of the universe, and all this is what democracy is about. Our liberty depends on it. Our liberty depends on believing that if we make bad choices, bad things will happen, and if we make good choices, good things will happen, and this is so no matter what. Our prays and rituals can not change the law of cause and effect, and even if we think we got away with something, the karma is in motion.