Hello again Just being real,
Just being real writes:
You indicated that answered prayer to a request for healing cancer would count as "god evidence." But what if the persons cancer just went into remission on its own and our prayer just happened to be around the same time that this was already going to occur? You can see how this one isolated case could not be counted as evidence.
Exactly, which is why I included step 4: Show that the god prayed to was indeed responsible for the cancer being healed.
Perhaps 10 such cases would be sufficient.
No, for for every one of those cases it would need to be shown that the god prayed to was indeed the god that cured the cancer, and not some other god, who felt compasionate, for example.
I read an example once about an episode of the Simpson where Homer prayed that if it were God's will for him to eat a box of chocolate chip cookies that God would do absolutely nothing. Homer waited a few moments and observed nothing happening and so he said, "I accept your sign of nothing oh great one as a sign that it is your will for me to eat these cookies." Lol!
Lol indeed.
The point of course is that if you are using "signs" as evidence for detecting god then the sign has to be predetermined, and it has to be a sign that could not possibly be coincidentally a natural event occurring at the same time as the request. In other words it has to be very specific and very unique.
And then it would
still be needed to show that it was indeed the god you meant that was giving the signs, and not some sort of trickster god like Loki, for example. You see, you can't just draw those kind of conclusions. "If sign A, B, and C are shown, that proves god exists" is not a good argument. You cannot draw the conclusion from those signs alone, you have no way of knowing if your god did indeed produce them.
You also seemed to indicate that something could come from nothing. If that is what you meant to say, could you please give an example?
Well, in physics, there is a phenomonom where particles pop out of nothing, I'd have to do some research into this, I will probably have an example by tonight.
You also seemed to indicate that if there was ever a time when there was nothing that something could still be here now. Could you please explain how this would be possible?
Via the same phenomenom I mentioned above. Also, again, there was never a time when there was nothing.
You also seemed to indicate that something can exist in an infinite state without the need to be self sustaining. Please explain how that could be possible?
Simple, something else sustains it.