A Proof of the Existence of God

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Originally Posted by MrFliop (Post 12314388) I am an atheist because I know its common sense that if there's zero proof of something there's no reason to believe its true. Therefore since I have yet to see any serious evidence for any deity's existence I have no reason to believe in any god. I'm glad that atheism is no on the rise but it seems that many people (specifically young people) are becoming atheists simply because its edgy. Because christianity is the status quo religion so being an atheist is the counterculture to this. Or because people want to p**s off their parents. Or because they got dragged into church in their youth. People should choose what they want to believe through critical thinking and what conclusions they come up with on their own. If people blindly follow atheism because its trendy right now then they're no better than religious followers.

It is possible in principle to provide an empirical proof that God exists. However, not everyone will accept it, everything depends on individual's personal preferences.

This is a tale of two atheists, a smart one and a mediocre one, who met God. "Give us a proof that you are the Creator, " said one of them. "All right. I will snap my fingers and a new universe will come to be, " said God. " So God snapped his fingers and a new universe appeared. "This is a hallucination. You either spiked my drink with LSD or something else, or hypnotized me without my consent, " said the mediocre atheist. "God turned to the smart atheist and said, "What do you think?" "Everything is real here, there is no hallucination. You snapped your fingers and the universe appeared, as you predicted. But this was just a coincidence, the new universe would have came out of nothing even if we have not had this conversation. I know, the chance of such coincidence is minimal, but it is still not zero, " said the smart atheist. "I must give you a credit for saying this. Logically speaking, you are right," said God.

I can do better that giving an empirical proof that the Creator exists -- I can use the methods of deductive logic to prove that the Creator exists. To me existence of God is not a matter of faith but of logical necessity.

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