Stile writes:
Not only is there none, but it is a fact that throughout human history, an overwhelming abundance of people have consistently dedicated their lives to searching for this evidence. And we still have none.
You could also add that there are many different and contradictory Gods of many different religions, and that this is strong evidence of the tendency of our species to invent such things.
Certainly, if we put all the names of all the known Gods that are/were believed in into a hat, and drew one out at random, the chances of it being the "true" God would be negligible even if there were a true God.
Feed in your lack of evidence for any true God, and religious people, regardless of the religion, can be more than 99.99% sure that they're wrong on their beliefs in any specific God (or, more accurately, thinking people can be sure that the religious people are wrong
).
The general idea of a teleological origin to the universe does better than this if the source of "intelligence" or "intent" remains completely undescribed. (e.g. one God is no more likely than 7 Goddesses or 1,475 wizards or beings in white coats in laboratories in another universe - if, and it's a big if, there is a teleological source to the universe).
Maybe we can make a law related to evidenceless propositions. The more vague and general the proposition, the more likely it is to be true.
So, an unspecified number of undescribed Gods existing is more likely than, for example, the existence of a specified number, like one. And one undescribed God is more likely than, for example, the existence of a racist creator who particularly favours one human tribe. Describe the tribe, then the chances get really negligible, and so on.
What it all boils down to is that having a religion is a complete waste of time, and believing in a well described religion is certainly delusional behaviour.
So, the religious might protest, I am describing the majority of the world's population as having religious delusions. Yes, I am, but so are the religious as, whichever "true" religion they believe in, a majority of the world doesn't share that belief.
Edited by bluegenes, : missing letter