To Condense this as much as possible I have copied and pasted from many sources and left their link if you care to read further on any part of this. My words are written in red so as not to be confused with the various other writers. This is by no means exhaustive or complete just a small attempt to help others see the "Bigger Picture"
Does God Exist? Can it Be Proven by Logic or Science? Is there tangible proof of a living God? The bible says there is proof of God existence all around us.
Romans 1 vs. 18 - 21 says:
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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The statement, “God exists,” is a precisely stated proposition. Thus, it is either true or false. The simple fact is, either God exists or He does not. There is no middle ground. One cannot affirm logically both the existence and nonexistence of God. The atheist boldly states that God does not exist; the theist affirms just as boldly that God does exist; the agnostic laments that there is not enough evidence to make a decision on the matter; and the skeptic doubts that God’s existence can be proven with certainty. Who is correct? Does God exist or not? DOESGODEXIST?
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I was an atheist at one time. And like most atheists, the issue of people believing in God bothered me greatly. What is it about atheists that we would spend so much time, attention, and energy refuting something that we don't believe even exists?! What causes us to do that? When I was an atheist, I attributed my intentions as caring for those poor, delusional people...to help them realize their hope was completely ill-founded. To be honest, I also had another motive. As I challenged those who believed in God, I was deeply curious to see if they could convince me otherwise. Part of my quest was to become free from the question of God. If I could conclusively prove to believers that they were wrong, then the issue is off the table, and I would be free to go about my life.
I didn't realize that the reason the topic of God weighed so heavily on my mind, was because God was pressing the issue. To read more go here: http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html It lists Several points to consider
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LAWS OF LOGIC
We know Laws of logic, mathematics, and science exist but what about absolute moral laws? I would have to say yes absolutely they exist.
Whereas laws of logic, science, and mathematics describe reality, and how things do behave, absolute moral laws describe how humans ought to, or ought not to behave.
Rape, and child molestation, are two examples of absolute moral wrongs.
to read more about this go here: http://www.proofthatgodexists.org/no-logic.php
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A Finely Tuned Universe
Consider this: The Universe is so finely calibrated to sustain all life forms. we see this precision in everything from the food chain, to the changing seasons to the perfect distance and rotation of earth around the sun.
It would be more incredible to believe this all happened by chance than to believe that a supreme being orchestrated these scientific, logical and mathematical exacts.
Here is an example taken from: http://www.proofgodexists.org/anthropic_principle.htm
If you went down the street and saw a quarter on the sidewalk, you would think naturally, "someone dropped a quarter." If you went down the street and saw a handful of quarters on the sidewalk, you would think, "Someone had a big hole in their pockets, or dropped a roll of quarters." But if you went down the street and saw one hundred quarters on the sidewalk and they were all carefully balanced precariously on their edges, you would have to think somebody did this deliberately. The Universe as we know it, is that carefully balanced. This theory is known as the Strong Anthropic Principle. The only possibility other than this Universe was created, is there are so many universes that the equivalent of one hundred quarters falling out of someone's pocket and ALL of them ending up balanced on their edges occurred, completely by random chance. This theory is known as the, "Weak Anthropic Principle." So if you are a rational thinker here are your only two choices. Either this Universe was created , or that there are multitudes of Universes.
To name just a few of the finely tuned variables that are mentioned in the books, "God the Evidence," by Patrick Glynn, John Leslie, in Universes" and from George Greenstein's "The Symbiotic Universe."
Gravity is roughly 1039 times weaker than electromagnetism. If gravity had been merely 1033 times weaker than electromagnetism, stars would be a billion times less massive and would burn a million times faster. Leslie, page 5.
The nuclear weak force is 1028 times the strength of gravity. Had the weak force been slightly weaker, all the hydrogen in the universe would have been turned to helium (making water impossible, for example). Leslie, page 24. Leslie got this information from P.C. W. Davies, 1980 (Other Worlds), pp. 176-177.
"A stronger nuclear strong force (by as little as 2 percent) would have prevented the formation of protons, --yielding a universe without atoms. Decreasing it by 5 percent would have given us a universe without stars." Leslie, page 4, quoting Hawking, Physics Bulleting: Cambridge, vol. 32, 1980, pp 9-10.
The charges of the electron and proton have been measured in the laboratory and have been found to be precisely equal and opposite. Were it not for this fact the resulting imbalance would force every object in the universe--our bodies, trees, planets, rocks, stars, to explode violently. The Universe would consist solely of a uniform and tenuous mixture not so very different from air. There would be nothing else. Greenstein's "The Symbiotic Universe."
The very nature of water--so vital to life--is something of a mystery. Unique among the molecules water is lighter in its solid form than its liquid form: Ice floats. If it did not, the oceans would freeze from the bottom up and Earth would be covered with solid ice. This property is traceable to unique properties of the hydrogen atom. Leslie, p 30, quoting Barrow and Tipler pp 143-144. CF Debtys Wilkinson, Our Universes (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp 171-172.
The synthesis of carbon--the vital core of all organic molecules--on a significant scale involves what scientists view as an astonishing coincidence in the ratio of the strong force to electromagnetism. This ratio makes it possible for carbon-12 to reach an excited state of exactly 7.65 MeV at the temperature typical of the center of stars, which creates a resonance involving helium-4. beryllium-8 and carbon-12--allowing the necessary binding to take place during a tiny window of opportunity 10-17 seconds long." Wilkinson, pp 181-183. See also John Gribbon and Martin Rees, Cosmic Coincidences (New York: Bantam, 1989 pp. 243-247.
A remarkable feature of the Universe is its emptiness. Stars are extraordinarily distant from one another. However, were it not for these vast reaches of empty space, violent collisions between stars would be so frequent as to render the Universe uninhabitable. The yet more frequent near misses would detach planets from their orbits around their suns, flinging them off into interstellar space where they would quickly cool to hundreds of degrees below zero. Greenstein's, "The Symbiotic Universe.
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NDE's (Near Death Experinces)
NDE's are pointing to life after death in amazing numbers and if the soul leaves the body and is still in existence where does it go? The following is taken from: LifeAfterLife
Medical science has advanced to the point where people can enter a hospital DOA (Dead On Arrival) and leave it alive! Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and other medical procedures are restoring the life functions of many who would have been considered irreversibly dead in earlier times. According to a recent Gallup poll at least 8 million people in the United States have had Near Death Experiences (NDE's). Most of these people now have an unshakable belief that there is something beyond this earthly life of ours.
There have been some small attempts by scientists to clarify whether these experiences are real or hallucinatory. Their attempts have lead to some intriguing statistics. Dr. Kenneth Ring found out quite early that a patient who receives anesthesia is less likely to report a NDE than one who has not. Thus drugs do not seem to be the cause of NDE's. World wide researchers have found that NDE's do not vary from country to country or culture to culture. An Australian Aborigine will report the same kind of experiences as a New York Taxi Driver (not using the same language, of course). Also the number of reported incidences is amazing. Thousands have entered their names into the database of the International Association of Near Dead Studies. There is disagreement about what NDE's are, but that they have occurred to millions of normal people, is beyond doubt.
Some of the evidence is anecdotal. One lady found herself floating up to the hospital roof, where she noted a red shoe in the gutter. Upon her return to life, she told the doctor, who laughed and laughed. The Doctor told the janitor who also laughed, but he went up on the roof and looked for himself, and sure enough, there was the red shoe in the gutter! Another lady told her doctor she had watched her medical procedure while floating above the operating table. To prove it she mentioned that there were several coins on top of the cabinet in the operating room. The doctor got a chair, stood on it and looked, and sure enough the money was there in the denominations the patient had mentioned.
I heard of a similar case in the book, "To Hell and Back," where a person who kept dying and being brought back to life had his apparent destination of Hell switched to Heaven when the Doctor who was presiding over his resuscitation told him to shout, "Jesus is the Son of God. Keep me out of Hell, and if I live, I'm yours." The Doctor did this only to quiet the very loud Patient but to his amazement, it worked. The next time they got the Patient back he was a lot calmer and reported that time the experience had been a positive one. This is a good thing to remember. If you have a near death experience and you find yourself being dragged to a not very nice place, try sincerely shouting "Jesus is the Son of God! Keep me out of Hell and I'm yours." Even if you believe that NDEs are only illusions and you expect to cease to exist 30 seconds later surely you will want your last few moments of consciousness to be positive and not frightening, so make a note to remember this Patient's experience. Pray, "Jesus is the Son of God, Keep me out of Hell and I'm yours!"
I could go on about the real scientific power of Prayer and the actual changes that take place in the brain...Or the bodies of saints who have been dug up hundreds of years after burial who still have limber life like limbs and no stench of decay. I could ask the rhetorical questions like which came first the chicken or the egg? But God clearly shows us in Genesis that God created all the animals and that they would reproduce after their own kind. And that man was given dominion over them. The day chicken and apes take over the world is the day I will not believe in God. What about the the many cases of actual resurrections where people have died been embalmed and still come back to life to warn people of eternal Life in Heaven or Hell? As was the case for The Resurrection of Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu http://bibleprobe.com/ekechukwu.htm
Still do not believe? Or still have reservation? You want tangible Proof of a living God But you have put on a blindfold, put earplugs in, and crossed your arms....If you want evidence You must be willing to perform a real scientific experiment where all your senses are used to determine the validity of an unseen divine entity (GOD).
Go Here for an experiment: are_you_brave_enough_to_try_an_e.htm
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