Evidence for God from Science

If one is speaking strictly in terms of hard science, then materialism may be “just fine.” Even seemingly mysterious phenomena like the “observer effect” of quantum physics and ESP (if you accept its existence) may be explainable in materialistic terms (they haven't been explained in materialistic...

jlay, you make the point that “it does and doesn't matter how much intuition, experience and knowledge one has” because there is the added element that God must be drawing the person to Him. I wouldn't disagree with this. I wasn't suggesting that faith is some sort of mathematical equation: knowled...

B.W., I sincerely appreciate your efforts, but I must confess that I'm not quite following your train of thought. I don't disagree that the existence of God is apparent throughout creation, or that God may speak to people through the Bible, in dreams and visions, and in other ways. But this just und...

B.W., I don't disagree with anything you say, but I get back to what the original poster said: “But faith can also be - and perhaps *must* be - applied to knowledge; faith must be applied to what we perceive.” I don't believe that very many people (or at least very many adults) become Christians on...

Super explanation, B.W.! Your statements at the beginning and end seem to me to capture the essence of what I was trying to say in regard to one's faith being defined by how one lives one's life: "The original Greek word had a far firmer meaning of having a desire built from firm expectation. I...

With all due respect to the author of Hebrews, that really doesn't make sense. If we were "sure" of what we "hope for," we wouldn't be "hoping for" it. And in what sense can anyone be said to be "certain" of what one "does not see"? "Faith is li...

I believe that "faith" comes down to "living (or acting) as though you believe something is true." I have "faith" that my car is going to start when I turn the key (based on a very large body of evidence, so it's a very reliable faith). If I didn't have this faith, I'd ...