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Author Topic:   What specific evidence would people require to believe in God's existence?
PaulK
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Message 7 of 222 (323348)
06-19-2006 3:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by mjfloresta
06-15-2006 12:21 AM


Before giving anything like a full answer to this question I would have to know what you mean by "God" - i.e. I would have to know what I would supposedly be looking for evidence about.
However, there is an exaple that was discussed here some time ago. We looked at what evidence we would need to consider "fulfilled prophecy" as significant evidence of God. We came up with some pretty good criteria for what would be accepted. But we weren't offered any real examples or any decent rebuttals to the criteria.
This is a relevant thread, although there are many others discussing prophecy. The first post is the really important one from my point of view (although there are some refinements to be made)
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Message 45 of 222 (324516)
06-21-2006 5:50 PM
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06-21-2006 2:17 PM


Re: Definition of God
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A. What proof would you require of the existence of a deity whose characteristics included at least omnipotence and omniscience among others?
Omniscience and omnipotence can't be proven, so those characteristics are not directly useful in framing the question. We really need something that is testable.
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B. What proof would you require of the existence of any deity whose existence has already been specifically postulated via any specific religious text or creed?
The obvious requirement would be to show that something matching the description did exist. Of course it isn't possible to get specific without the description.p

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Message 199 of 222 (710256)
11-04-2013 1:01 AM
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11-04-2013 12:16 AM


Re: Evidence leads to faith
Too bad that you can't actually point to any of this wonderful "evidence" that you keep claiming to have.

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Message 203 of 222 (710378)
11-05-2013 1:14 AM
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11-04-2013 7:51 PM


Re: Evidence leads to faith
So what you're saying is that Ringo has to accept that this extraordinary evidence exists and really is as extraordinary as you claim, just because you say so ? That there is "no excuse" for refusing to uncritically accepting YOUR claims ?
At least tell us what this alleged "evidence" is.

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