What are some evidences of God's existence?
I have come to appreciate and have adopted the way Ray Comfort presents a case for God's existence.
Let's begin taking a natural object like a building. How did the building get there? Out of nothing, did it just poof exist or do we look at a building and conclude for the building to exist there had to be a builder? To imply building with walls, doors, windows, angles, different materials all brought together to create a beautiful structure happened by accident from nothing would insult your intelligence. The building exists even though we can't see, or hear, or touch, or smell, or taste the builder, you still know there was a builder that was responsible for the building. Behind every building there must be a builder. Behind every design, there must be a designer.
Let's consider a painting. Can a painting come out of nothing or when we look at a painting do we believe there must be a painter that painted the painting? Like the builder, we can't see, or touch, or smell, or taste the painter, yet we still know there was a painter that painted the painting because the painting did not paint itself.
Some would argue, we need scientific evidence! If you were gather the most brilliant scientific minds and put them in a room to observe a painting, they would conclude after every test the painting didn't paint itself and there must have been a painter.
When we look at creation, there is scientific proof there was a creator. You don't even need faith to know this, you only need eyes that can see and a brain that works.
Let's consider the eyes of the human body. There are around 132 million light sensitive cells. The eye focusing muscles moves around 100,000 times a day. The eye has tear ducts to lubricate the eye. Even the most sophisticated camera in the world can't compare to the human eye.
Let's consider a plant like a venus fly trap. When a fly is feeding, if it touches one of the hairs on the plant, a timer is set. A second touch of a hair within 20 seconds, the fly is doomed. The plant doesn't only have a counter but is able to calculate. When the timer is set, digestive juices are produces. The fly trap is triggered, it evaluates the size of the prey and releases the needed amount of juices to dissolve it. This complex design points to a designer.
The beautiful and complex design of nature that surrounds us points to a designer, a creator.
As a human being, we have a conscience. The word broken down con (with) science (knowledge) means with knowledge. Unlike any other part of creation, believing we are created in the image of God, we have distinctive knowledge to know the different between right and wrong, just and unjust.
Jerimiah 31:33 says, I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. The law spoken of is the moral law (the 10 commandments). We have an inherit ability to know because the law is written upon our hearts, into our conscience. If I were to take the time to explore the commands, we would find the moral law is what we use to govern. It really is no different when we consider a court system. The courts have been set up to find and establish truth in over some given matter.
The ability to have such knowledge come from nothing seems absurd. The ability to reason supports the argument there must be a designer.
Something can't come from nothing. Whether people acknowledge God as the creator doesn't change that someone or something created everything.
Sir Isaac Newton is quoted as saying, "All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.". He is quoted, "It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation.".
A final quote and simply stated, "In default of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of the existence of a God."
For there to be a building, there must be a builder. For there to be a painting, there must be a painter. For creation, there must be a creator. For the design of things, there must be a designer. I conclude the evidence provides supports my position that God exists.
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