If you're looking for a surefire way
to waste a big chunk of the limited time
that you have on this planet,
then I would suggest entering into countless online debates
about the evidence for God
with someone that doesn't understand what evidence is.
Now I do realize that this isn't for everyone
and if you don't want to take my advice
because you actually value your time
then I would suggest that you and your interlocker
get clear about what evidence is
before you even start to begin to talk about
what the evidence is for the existence of God.
So let's do that right now.
First, what is evidence?
We can start by talking about what evidence is.
Now I realize that this sounds very basic and worn
but the truth is until both of you understand what evidence is,
you're not going to make any progress
discussing evidence for something.
Now the way I like to think about it is,
evidence is facts or information
that raises or lowers the probability of something.
To put it more simply,
we can say that evidence is something that helps to prove
if something is true or not.
Or you can just say that
evidence is anything that's presented in support of something.
Second,
what kind of evidence should we be looking for?
Whenever someone tells me that there's no evidence for God's existence,
I'll usually start by asking them
what sort of evidence have they been looking for.
But almost every time,
they can't tell me what evidence there should be if God did exist.
Why does this matter?
Well to start,
it's pretty hard to find something
if you don't know what you're looking for.
If I told you to keep an eye out for traces of a disaportamonitor
because it can kill you,
your first question would be,
what in the world should I keep an eye out for?
If I don't know what I'm looking for
then how on earth am I supposed to know
if I see it or not?
So to start,
when it comes to the existence of God,
you have to have an idea of what the evidence would look like
before you can claim that it doesn't exist.
Three,
are there different kinds of evidence?
One of the most common reasons that some people say that
there's no evidence for God
is because they mistakenly think that all evidence is scientific evidence.
Scientific evidence usually means two main or broad criteria.
First, you need repeatable and testable events
that are in support of a scientific hypothesis or theory.
Second, the evidence is supposed to be empirical,
which means that it can be observed with the five senses.
The scientific evidence is not the only kind of evidence that there is.
There's also historical evidence, circumstantial evidence,
logical or mathematical evidence, philosophical evidence and so on.
Another kind of evidence is in forensics.
When detectives are trying to establish who's guilty of a crime,
they can't do this by measuring repeatable and testable events
in order to come to a verdict,
and that's because the crime is a singular event in the past
so it can't be repeatable and testable,
and most of the time you won't have a photo or a video.
In a trial, a person's testimony can be really strong evidence
even though it's not scientific or empirical,
especially if a jury can link it with the means, motives and an opportunity.
Fourth,
what is evidence for God?
So when skeptics fail to make a distinction between
the different kinds of evidences
and instead they think that all evidence must be empirical or scientific,
then it's no wonder why so many of them look for evidence for God
as if he was another thing in nature waiting to be discovered by science.
But this misunderstands either what evidence is or what God is.
When we speak of God,
we don't mean another object in the natural world
or another physical part of nature that's governed by the natural laws.
Instead, God is the creator of the whole show;
all of the physical things, all of the laws and all of nature.
If he created all of the entire physical universe,
then he obviously could not be another one of the physical things
inside of the universe.
So this reasoning is kind of like saying
there's no evidence for an architect in this building.
All I see are walls and floors and concrete and furniture.
Give me a single shred of evidence for an architect.
Now the reason why this person doesn't see any direct evidence for an architect
is because they seem to think that
the architect is just like a piece of wood or concrete.
It would seem pretty misguided to continue to study
the physical composition of a piece of wood,
realize that you don't see an architect inside of it
and therefore conclude that an architect does not exist.
If you can understand that the architect isn't built into the building
and isn't one of the material things that the building is made out of
then you can actually start looking for the evidence for the architect's existence.
It's kind of like that with God.
It's irrational to look for God as part of the physical universe
if he created the entire physical universe.
However,
just as evidence for the architect can be indirectly found
by looking at the building,
scientific evidence can serve as support or evidence
for a premise in a philosophical argument for God's existence.
So the evidence would be indirect in a similar sense.
Also, keep in mind that there are some things that we have indirect evidence for
that we still believe,
like black holes and quirks and these sorts of things.
But it's not because we see the things within themselves.
Instead,
the evidence that we have indirectly supports and infers their existence.
So it's something similar like that with God.
In fact, it's actually incoherent to look for direct physical evidence
for a non-physical being.
Nor is it logical to look for repeatable and testable events
for a freewill person who does as he wishes
and is not governed by the laws of nature.
Instead of the evidence being direct evidence from science,
the evidence for God's existence would ultimately have to be philosophical,
logical, experiential, historical and so on.
To see some of evidence for God's existence,
check out the other videos on this channel.
So next time that someone says
there's not a single shred of evidence for the existence of God,
what are you going to say?
What do you mean?
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