I claim there is no God

Greetings Doubter. Legal / historical evidence for the existence of God. For legal / historical proof you give the evidence, and the jury decides if the evidence is convincing. Your comments about the "ad populem fallacy" doesn"t apply here. The jury I have chosen here is the world population. In a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center they found Christians (31.5%), Muslims (23.2%) and Jewish (0.2%) believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac & Joseph make up 55% of the world population. http://www.pewforum.org... One thing that might interest you is that Unaffiliated (16%) were a divers group with various beliefs. "Religiously unaffiliated include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys. However, many of the religiously unaffiliated have some religious beliefs. For example, belief in God or a higher power is shared by 7% of Chinese unaffiliated adults, 30% of French unaffiliated adults and 68% of unaffiliated U.S. adults. Some of the unaffiliated also engage in certain kinds of religious practices. For example, 7% of unaffiliated adults in France and 2 7% of those in the United States say they attend religious serv ices at least once a year. And in China, 44% of unaffiliated adults say they have worshiped at a graveside or tomb in the past year.10 " http://www.pewforum.org... SO Using the world as a jury for evidence for the existence of God, 55% weigh in with the Abrahamic view of God, other theistic views account for 20% or more with more that 75% of adults the planet weighing in on the "I believe in God" side of the Jury. Estimates for atheism alone (as a primary religious preference) range from 200 to 240 million out of 7.086 Billion, or 3% http://www.adherents.com... On a jury of 100 people only 3 would claim "There is no God" Remember - the legal standard of proof IS the opinions of the jury based on the evidence they have seen. I could go into much greater detail but in light of your forfeit (via the comments) I don"t want to give this more time. Scientific evidence about the complexity of creation that points to an intelligent designer. It takes more blind faith to believe that these things happened by chance than to believe in God. This is not so much a proof of the existence of a particular God, but it is evidence that the random chance view that seems to go with the claim "there is no God" is a type of misguided religious fanaticism akin to the person who yells "There is no God but Allah" and then blows himself up. I see two kinds of evidence (not proof, but evidence) - The complexity of living systems that can not begin to be explained by random chance. This is the whole intelligent design debate. - The balance and apparent fine tuning of the physical universe where even a slight change to many of the constants would not give us a world capable of sustaining life as we know it. My problem in choosing evidence here is that there is so much. First a concept you have probably heard of if you have considered the evolution / creation debates - Irreducible complexity. The concept of Irreducible complexity is well covered in the wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org... Behe"s description is as follows. "An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional." There are so many biological systems that cease to function if just one part is removed that it takes less faith to believe in God than to believe in the billions*billions of chance events that would have to happen just right to produce just one link in the chain to produce life. It makes me smile when brilliant people working with the best of equipment work for years to produce one organic molecule. Sidney Fox created microspheres, and claimed that these microspheres closely resembled bacterial cells (http://en.wikipedia.org...) If you look at the research you see that it was a great first step, only billions more to go. An intelligent designer working with the best science tools to create an artificial environment and he succeeds in making a bubble of fat. The complexity of life is so amazing that it takes more faith to believe in accidental creation rather than God. The second scientific evidence I want to highlight is the fine tuning of the universe. The wiki article is reasonably good, and editors have had the chance to debate on the talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org... Physicist Paul Davies has asserted that "There is now broad agreement among physicists and cosmologists that the Universe is in several respects "fine-tuned' for life". However, he continues, "the conclusion is not so much that the Universe is fine-tuned for life; rather it is fine-tuned for the building blocks and environments that life requires." Eye witness testimony of people familiar with God (Father, Son, Spirit and Angelic messengers) The sheer volume of testimony of people who met with God is hard for an intelligent person to dismiss. You can look at the recent writings of people who spend time with God or you can look at writings from antiquity or any time in our history and find people who tell of their encounters with God. Personal - I grew up in a home where God is worshiped and our lives are full of joy that seems to overflow in our time with God. Although I knew the teachings about God from childhood, I first met with God around age 11. It was a year of great change (moving to a new country, new school, growing up) and I asked God to make Himself real to me. He did, and ever since that time I have been getting to know God better. Through all the challenges and successes in life He has been my constant companion, and the source of my contentment and joy. Recent History - I thought about what kind of Theists to include in this list. Someone put a list on the net of "famous Christians" http://www.christianadvice.net... As I prayed about who to include I chose the following First, a list of real life current eye witness accounts of their relationship with Jesus - http://christianity.about.com... One that made a difference to me is musician Kerry Livgren from the rock band Kansas http://www.youtube.com... Remember, this is about eye witness testimony I would point to the Bible as a well accepted and well studied collection of opinions and eye witness testimony. I assume that DOUBTER does not want to accept it as evidence so I will limit myself to one quote. 2 Peter 1 :16-18 (NIV) 16 For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." 18 We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain. I had planned to point to some of the philosophical evidence for the existence of God. Doubter has dismissed these so I will not bother. Some of these arguments are more compelling than others, but the brightest minds over thousands of years have found them worth deep consideration. I respond to DOUBTERS round 2 in the comments Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." DOUBTERS dislikes scripture so There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See: - 1546 John Heywood