6/13/20

Dice and the probability that God is real

There are plenty of different kinds of evidence that God is real.
I remember being struck as a child by philosopher's question: "Why is there something, rather than nothing?"

There are philosophical arguments that God is real, there are historical prophecies fulfilled, there are various kinds of personal experiences and encounters, there are moral truths that we humans cannot quite shake, but which point to a transcendent Standard of Right and Justice.  None of these are, in my view, totally "open and shut" cases that no one could doubt.  But when you add them all together they make a strong case.

Another kind of evidence for God's existence has emerged as science has taught us more about the structure of the Universe (yes, science can actually support our faith in God); we now see that our Universe seems to be perfectly fine-tuned to allow for the emergence of life.  It is a new form of the old question: Why is it thus?  What are the odds that the Universe would be just so?


 

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