Is there any objective evidence that indicates any deity exists?

Question

If so, what is it?
Please don't consider this an attack. I'm genuinely curious.

**note - your religious texts, whatever religion you are, don't constitute objective evidence. Nor does your personal "road to Damascus" experience.

hasse_john - That's an interesting statistic you've come up with. How did you arrive at that number?

batgirl - True, but I was trying to stress the notion of "objective", which we both can agree upon, yes?

Answer 1

One time I was at the store getting milk and eggs to make a cake for my mother's birthday. When I came out to the parking lot, Jesus was stealing my car!

Answer 2

No, absolutely no evidence of any deity's existence just the existence of Perfect Science. Remember, most religions in the ancient and new world believed in many dieties not just one. What happened to them? I believe that the idea of a deity is mankind's attempt to rationalize the bad and the good of the world. Which, naturally, led to the invention of the Devil. After all, someone had to be the bad guy.

Someone posted an answer with the justification that because Jesus exist, there is a God. And so do UFO's, the Loch Ness Monster and Yeti...I mean, people believe that they exist yet are they real? And, BTW, the real date of Jesus's birth is believed by scholars to be Spring of 6 BC..not the year 0 that we use to traditionally signify Christ's birth.

So, I guess you could say that there is as much objective proof of a deity's existence as there is the exact day of Jesus's birth.

Answer 3

Objectivity is rigorous inter-subjective agreement. (1) A personal "road to Damascus" experience can be checked against claims made by others, and thus can be empirical, if given enough clarity and substance. The problem with most of these is that they are too vague for any clear characterization of the supposed experience to be made, and the experiencers often make leaps (generally theological) from the experience without any other form of corroborating evidence.

Answer 4

I know that God exists because I look around and I see a creation. When people see a dictionary, they do not assume that it formed randomly when a printing factory exploded; they know that it had an author and an editor. I see the creation; therefore, I know that there is a Creator. Evolution does not have sufficient proof either. I will be amazed if you can come up with a piece of evidence that cannot be proven false or used for Creationism.

Answer 5

for everything you can point out to be the proof of the existance of God, someone can proove to the contrary. God is not something to prove, you can only belive, to know because of faith. And thats the whole important part of it. Anyone can see and believe, it takes true inner eyes to know something others cannot see with eyes of the flesh.
I will say this.. Could anything but a god or higher power construct a world that has such diverse flora and fauna? Some undersea life thrives in temperatures that would boil other life, and when moved from their hot enviroment die? Could Billions of worlds just happen? Something to think about.

Answer 6

Scientific Proof of God – The Evidence
What evidence exists that could prove the existence or non-existence of God? Does God exist?

First, the non-existence of God cannot be proven. One cannot prove a universal negative. Alternatively, the existence of God is provable.


The concept, design, and intricate details of our world necessitate an intelligent designer.


Both direct and indirect evidence for God’s existence are well known and well documented. Nothing in history is better known or better documented than the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We even use the year of His birth as the basis for our calendar. He perfectly matched the over 100 unique Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament regarding His birth, life, death, and resurrection. The laws of probability cannot give us a reasonable explanation for either the Messianic predictions or the resurrection, let alone both by the same person.

Jesus’ miracles were witnessed by many and were documented redundantly for additional corroboration. He was seen by at least 500 people after His resurrection. He was seen ascending into heaven. His transfiguration was seen by Peter, James, and John. His wisdom in dealing with many circumstances was astounding. He never promoted Himself or His miracles. C. S. Lewis stated that He couldn’t have just been a good teacher. He was either a liar, lunatic, or Lord. He didn’t even come close to meeting the profile of a liar or lunatic, so He had to be God.


Jesus Christ also supported the truth of the Old Testament and quoted it many times. Consequently, with Jesus Christ, we have an eyewitness to the truth of the Old Testament. This gives credibility to the creation account and God’s interaction with man. The entire Old Testament account is about how God is trying to have a relationship with man while man is separating himself from God by sin. It tells how God is long-suffering and merciful and ultimately how God sent His Son to die for our sins so God could ultimately have a relationship with us.

God’s interaction with man in the Old Testament was often and powerful. Some of the main interactions included Adam, Cain, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, the Israelites, the prophets, and the kings. In addition to Jesus’ testimony to the truth of the Old Testament, ancient manuscripts, archaeology, and internal consistency also testify to its truth. Consequently, much direct evidence including eyewitness accounts and indirect evidence corroborate the existence of God and the truth of the Bible.

Answer 7

I pass along an answer from Dr. B. Thompson. Who spent years studying evolution from a veterinarian field.

--- The law of cause and effect, and the cosmological argument based upon that law, have serious implications in every field of human endeavor. The Universe is here, and must have an adequate antecedent cause. In addressing this problem, R.L. Wysong commented:


Everyone concludes naturally and comfortably that highly ordered and designed items (machines, houses, etc.) owe existence to a designer. It is unnatural to conclude otherwise. But evolution asks us to break stride from what is natural to believe and then believe in that which is unnatural, unreasonable, and...unbelievable.... The basis for this departure from what is natural and reasonable to believe is not fact, observation, or experience but rather unreasonable extrapolations from abstract probabilities, mathematics, and philosophy (1976, p. 412, first ellipsis in orig.).
Dr. Wysong then presented an interesting historical case to illustrate his point. Some years ago, scientists were called to Great Britain to study orderly patterns of concentric rocks and holes—a find designated as Stonehenge. As studies progressed, it became apparent that these patterns had been designed specifically to allow certain astronomical predictions. Many questions (e.g., how ancient peoples were able to construct an astronomical observatory, how the data derived from their studies were used, etc.) remain unsolved. But one thing is known—the cause of Stonehenge was intelligent design.

Now, suggested Dr. Wysong, compare Stonehenge to the situation paralleling the origin of the Universe, and of life itself. We study life, observe its functions, contemplate its complexity (which defies duplication even by intelligent men with the most advanced methodology and technology), and what are we to conclude? Stonehenge might have been produced by the erosion of a mountain, or by catastrophic natural forces working in conjunction with meteorites to produce rock formations and concentric holes. But what scientist or philosopher ever would suggest such an idea?

No one ever could be convinced that Stonehenge “just happened” by accident, yet atheists and agnostics expect us to believe that this highly ordered, well-designed Universe, and the complicated life it contains, “just happened.” To accept such an idea is, to use Dr. Wysong’s words, “to break stride from what is natural to believe” because the conclusion is unreasonable, unwarranted, and unsupported by the facts at hand. The cause simply is not adequate to produce the effect.

The central message of the Cosmological Argument, and the law of cause and effect upon which it is based, is this: Every material effect must have an adequate antecedent cause. The Universe is here; intelligent life is here; morality is here; love is here. What is their adequate antecedent cause? Since the effect never can precede, or be greater than the cause, it stands to reason that the Cause of life must be a living Intelligence that Itself is both moral and loving. When the Bible records, “In the beginning, God...,” it makes known to us just such a First Cause.

Answer 8

As long as you don't expect actual linkages to any of the deities, valid responses range from "No" to "There's evidence all around you." If you actually want something to link anything real to a specific deity, then the answer is an emphatic NO!

People may claim that their favored deity created the universe and all that is in it, but without a manufacturers lable attached that identifies a specific deity, those claims are just heresay, speculation, and biased propaganda.

Answer 9

There is proof all around, the most visible is our sun and moon. From our view they appear to be the same size even though one is much bigger and farther away. Yes it is an optical illusion but a beautiful example of GOD's majesty. But the atheist will say its just a coincidence, but then the big bang and evolution theories relies mainly on coincidence. Praise the LORD.

Answer 10

Mathematically speaking, considering probability and DNA. The chance of life happening randomly is one chance in 10 to the 148th power. Mathematically speaking, one chance in 10 to the 31 st power is widely accepted as being a definition of an impossibility. I can't grasp the numbers, but someone said that 10 to the 148th was about the number of molecules in the galaxy!

Answer 11

There's an escalator to heaven above Jerusalem, Israel. You can see it on a clear day. It's called Jacob's ladder.

It is 100% objective evidence of the existence of God.