: : You've challenged us to prove the existence of God apart from belief. I'll reverse the challenge to you or to anyone else: Without using faith or testimony, prove that atoms exist.: What do you constitute as 'proof', Gotch?
: As I've said before, there is no ultimate proof of anything; only falsifiability; you can prove A =/= !A in a logical framework, but you cannot prove that A == B.
: If you are prepared to accept the standard scientific evidence as 'proof', then I can show you any number of images taken from scanning tunnelling microscopes; which will resolve distances small enough to show atomic lattices.
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: If you won't accept the standard scientific definition of 'proof', then what are your exact criteria?
: Gideon.
Merely demonstrating a point. No, as you said, we can't "prove" anything ultimately. Neither can we "prove" the existence of God.
However, as you also said, if we accept the weight of evidence, then we believe in the existence of atoms -- or at least of something there that acts like what we call atoms. Those of us who believe that God exists also believe that the weight of "evidence" of His existence is so overwhelming that there is no other choice.
The personal question is will you choose to believe or will you not? If yes, then we attend to His Word and determine what the result of that choice to believe entails. If not, then there is no choice but to believe that evolution, etc., must be true.
I choose God.
