If you believe that the universe itself is proof that god exists, which god does it prove?

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and why?

Answer 1

Rainbows prove it has to be a Leprechaun.

There is no denying that leprechauns created rainbows to point the way to the Gold.....

Religions do have similar messages, but they are all harmful to mankind and the future.

Answer 2

If you believe in God, questions about the nature of God must enter your mind at some point. Is he corporeal? Who or what could possibly have created God? Can God simply have always existed, without a beginning?

The way I see it, neither God nor the physical universe could possibly materialize out of nothing. Conceding the possibility of God means one of three things:

1. God has always existed and is the creator of the universe
2. The physical universe has always existed but God is imaginary
3. Both God and the physical universe has always existed

As difficult as it is to imagine an eternal ANYTHING, imagining two of them is more difficult. We know and can prove the physical universe exists . . . but we don't know nor can we prove that God exists. Options 1 and 3 are more complex than option 2 because we would need to explain God as well as the physical universe -- we would have two mysteries instead of one. Injecting God into the question unnecessarily complicates it: particularly when there's no evidence for him in the first place. None of this explains where ANYTHING came from; that question is not answerable (yet).

There are no (absolute) proofs for, or against, the existence of God.

Proof is a tricky word. Many people think that proof establishes something is an absolute fact. That's not often the case; at least, not in the everyday world.

In jurisprudence and science, a reasonable basis for proof is based on solid evidence and the absence of any known contradiction. There's a "reasonable person" standard which defines proof as "beyond a reasonable doubt". The test of time fortifies proofs.

You say there are no unicorns? Prove it. You see? ABSOLUTE proof is an illusion -- especially when trying to prove a negative, such as "There is no God". It was once believed that all swans are white – nobody had ever claimed to see a swan that wasn’t white. The assertion that “There are no non-white swans” was believed to be true until black swans were discovered in Australia.

However, rephrasing the assertion from "There is no God", to "God is imaginary", makes proof easier, using the "reasonable person" standard. We can't ABSOLUTELY prove it but we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Consider this . . .

No matter where man has spread, he as created countless gods. From aboriginal Australians to tribal Africans to American Indians to ancient Egyptians . . . they've all created gods prolifically and with ease. That man creates gods is a well-known, indisputable fact.

But what about the opposite? God creating man? We DON'T know that he did. We have no evidence that he did. We have no reason to think that he did. All the evidence points to evolution over the course of billions of years. There's growing evidence that life originated from abiogenesis -- from an electro-chemical reaction in the primordial soup of early Earth.

So, with countless thousands of gods to man's credit, believers are in the untenable position of asserting that all the gods that came before and after theirs are false . . . but their own god (and religion) is real and true. Asserting that one's own god is real, when we know that man created all the others, is ridiculous. It is so unlikely that we can safely consider it delusional.

Man has created countless thousands of gods and YOURS (if you believe) has NO evidence. That, my friend, qualifies God’s existence as dubious, at best, and faith in him as misguided and misplaced. Based upon the preponderance of evidence, the assertion that "God is imaginary" meets the reasonable person standard for proof and has withstood the test of time for thousands of years.

Answer 3

Them all, really. Religion is a tool used to interpret the Divine - to get a glimpse at the Unknowable and define it in terms that makes us feel safe, happy and purposeful. They are all talking about the same thing - that magical spark that makes this place go - but viewed through the colored lenses of their base culture.

I mean, the base question here is not which God, but is there any god at all, right? If the answer is yes God, then people can go on perceiving it anyway they choose (just like they do you and me and everything else in this existence, frankly).

Peace!

Later...
ah, mathmatics and science - the thinking man's God...lol.

Answer 4

I believe the universe is derived from Mathematics not gods. Until someone proves that the universe cannot be derived from Mathematics then the universe can never be said to be proof of any god.

Answer 5

God the Creator
it's in The Truth Book

Answer 6

Does it matter? There is a God. he created the universe. Now, the matter of which god will never be answered, until we die anyway.

Considering most religions have pretty much the same moral standards, I think following them as best you can probably gives you a good shot of whatever eternal reward there is, if any.

I prefer the Sermon on the Mount.

Answer 7

That's a strange sort of proof.

Everything => God.

Answer 8

The one who created it. (it tells of the account in the bible.) THAT God

Answer 9

I guess every god someone beleives in.

Answer 10

odin

i mean its so obvious the world was made from the giant ymirs corpse