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Quote by: sdbest  1.
It's impossible to "prove" within the rigors of formal logic the existence or non-existence of God or gods. However, what can be proved, I submit, is whether or not God (or gods) intervene in human affairs, as those who pray must believe.
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The intervention of God would be detectable if events and phenomena deviated from chance. A deviation from chance is what would be expected if a self-aware, supernatural being was intervening in human affairs, particularly in response to prayer.
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Do we have evidence of events deviating from chance such that the intervention of supernatural intelligence might be the explanation? For the evidence to be significant, of course, it would have to be unambiguous.
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For example, a new leg growing on an amputee as consequence of prayer would be startling. The gravitational constant changing in order to prevent a plane crash would call for some explanation.
For a God who created a Universe such interventions would be trivial. |
#1, #2, #3
Wrong assumptions.
#4
An atom possesses Neither the ability of self-creation Nor changing its attributes.
What do you take a supernatural entity for ?