A god exists, as defined by the PRO side.

"The existence of reality is an assumption I make because if I did not, I would not be able to function in reality. This assumption is far more reasonable than the assumption that spirits, (I take to mean invisible beings that can nonetheless affect the world) exist." You commit the fallacy of circular reasoning: 1. I assume reality exists 2. If i didn't, i would not be able to assume reality exists It's therefore not more reasonable, it's just as reasonable. I've had an experience that God exists. How can i show you he exists? (I can't) but hypothetically what is needed to find out if God exists in order to become a Christian? several ways, 1) Prayer 2) miracles 3) revelation. By praying for him to manifest himself to exist, you open yourself to "testing" that he exists. By witnessing miracles, you can infer that he is the cause if he is the only simplest explanation. Why resort to this method? Well because that's how it would work with a natural being. Take for example fossilized dinosaur bones, no one is just going to sit back and say "bring me the evidence", someone has to be pro-active and go to the source of the evidence itself. "If God cannot be observable, how do we expect to know him?" As i have said in my previous argument, you assume that observation leads to knowledge when it doesn't always. We can also receive knowledge from logic and abstract ideas. You never showed how science is the only knowledge leading to truth. "Your archaeological evidence proves still nothing. Even if the Bible contains some historical information, it isn't all correct. For example, the story of 6 day creation is impossible." The Bible doesn't actually teach a literal 6-day creation period. Hebrews had no concept of "past, present, and future" in the same way we do. Time is defined by completed events, so if creation took billions of years, that would define a biblical creation "day" (1). "1. The problem of evil: Yes, I acknowledge that there are many possible explanations for evil. Classic examples include: Free will: If god intervened in the world, it would not affect free will. God has been said to intervene in the Bible, but never does today. He has a plan: ...which involves people constantly dying of cancers, illnesses, wars, crime and faith-healing scams. He is teaching a lesson: ...which is lopsided and affects mostly poor, third-world nations." I see several problems: 1. you did not define evil, therefore i will define it 2. The argument commits the fallacy of false dilemma, meaning that there are only two choices: 1) God stops evil now and is omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent or 2) he's evil and not omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. There's never a third choice or a fourth choice. 3. Your imposing your own will on God. Humans can only be benevolent with finite knowledge and power. Logically, your will can only do that which is benevolent, within your knowledge, and power, but not what is omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. God's reasons for allowing evil are then justified and subjected to his wisdom. 4. This does not disprove his existence, it's just ambiguous why he allows evil to happen, but his morality is not connected with his existence. I'll use the book of Job to illustrate. Job was a righteous and good person (Job 1:1). Satan tested Job's integrity and directly harmed him with God's permission (Job 1:6-12), thus God was never the direct cause of his suffering. However you can see that Job prevails throughout his suffering through faith and God rewards him tenfold (Job 38). Job 42:10-11 " 10 And the Lord restored Job"s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold." As we can see, God allows evil only to show that evil is powerless when it's at work. From revelation of Scripture, we can see that God himself shows his omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence in allowing evil to happen but rendering it powerless with pure faith rather than preventing it from happening and not having faith. With that in mind, God's existence is not being questioned. I rest my case. Sources: 1. Doukhan, p. 200. Cf. Von Rad, Vol. 2, p. 100-101.