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One cannot "prove"
something doesn't exist. Nor do all religions
believe in the same type of God. For most of
humanity's existence, it was reasonable to
believe that the earth was stationary and the
stars moved. You could see the proof of that
every night.
For most of humanity's existence, gods and
demons were invented to explain what seemed
unexplainable. People anthropomorphised nature.
The Jewish god of three thousand years ago is
not the same entity they worship today. He no
longer smites down his enemies or demands animal
sacrifices. However, he does now promise an
afterlife.
What is a reasonable person to make of the
changing nature of God? Did we get it wrong for
most of the hundreds of thousands of years
anatomically modern humans have been around? Are
we only recently beginning to see the true God?
Did homo habilis worship a God millions of years
ago? What about the Australopitheci? Do gorillas
worship a God?
How could the old Jewish God turn Lot's wife
into a pillar of salt if he couldn't enter the
universe without destroying it? And what of his
angels? They seem able to work in this world yet
we don't see them anymore. Couldn't a host of
Angels take command of the airwaves and proclaim
the existence of God while he performed miracles
on global TV in front of the world's foremost
scientists (spirited from their homes and
workplaces and miraculously appearing where the
miracle is being performed)?
At the least such a demonstration would prove
that there is an intelligent power much greater
than man.
The simple fact is that God leaves no
fingerprints. We know something happened but not
who or what did it. The believer's quest for a
proof is a reflection of their own insecurity in
their belief.
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