God Is Real

In order to respond to your post, I need to introduce a concept from logic called the "argument from incredulity." The website Talk Origins explains the fallacy of incredulity as follows: "It is inconceivable that (fill in the blank) could have originated naturally. Therefore, it must have been created." Basically, because you find something unbelievable, it must not be true. Source: http://www.talkorigins.org... This is a fallacy because the fact that you find something unbelievable doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true. Lots of things that are amazing are true. For example, it is amazing that there are hundreds of thousands of stars in the universe, but there are. Our intuitions are not a good guide to the scientific reality of the issue. The problem is compounded in the case of evolution by natural selection, a process that took place over the course of millions of years. Our intuitions about how things develop were conditioned by a human scale of decades, so they aren't a good guide to whether the theory of evolution is true. Indeed, according to the Pew Research Center, 97% of scientists believe that the theory of evolution is true: "Nearly all scientists (97%) say humans and other living things have evolved over time " 87% say evolution is due to natural processes, such as natural selection." Source: http://www.people-press.org... So, the fact that you find babies amazing, and the fact that you are amazed that there is so much information in a human cell, aren't evidence that God exists. They are just evidence that evolution by natural selection can produce some pretty cool results if you give it millions of years to operate. The Bible is not proof of God's existence. As I said in my first post (which you did not address), the Bible was written by primitive people who did not have the concept of science. Their goal was not to record the literal truth, it was to write down stories that explained puzzling aspects of the natural world and offered them comfort and moral inspiration. You say that the Bible is evidence for God because it was written by 40 authors over a period of 2,000 years, but still has a consistent message. This is a very weak argument. For one thing, there are countless bodies of literature that have a consistent internal message in spite of being written by a number of different people - including the scriptures of religions other than your own. By your reasoning, all of these bodies of literature must have been written by God. A better explanation is that people writing in a given tradition usually have access to the texts that were written earlier in the tradition, so they make sure that what they write is consistent with the earlier texts. Further, if the Bible has a single consistent message, Christians have been remarkably poor at figuring out exactly what it is. There are thousands of denominations of Protestantism in the United States, and that's not to mention the enormous schism between Protestantism and Catholicism, or between both and the Eastern Orthodox Church. If the Bible had a single consistent message, we would expect Christians to be able to tell us what it is. Finally, the fact that the Bible is the best selling and most translated book only shows that many people think that it is the word of God, not that God exists. The Quran has sold millions of copies, but you don't regard that as evidence that the Quran was written by God. To wrap up: 1. You can't object to the theory of evolution simply by appealing to incredulity. 2. The Bible doesn't meet the burden of proof for God's existence. Thank you.