Is there any evidence on the existence of God? If not, how can people believe in it?

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Have you ever stopped to think about how evidence works, like in an actual courtroom? Movies and television paint a picture of the last minute clutch found fact that shows with immense clarity what happened, exonerating the accused in a blaze of dramatic release.

Real world cases aren’t that clear-cut. Public defenders often can’t be bothered to sift through the mountain of facts and apply critical thinking to each individual thing. Prosecutors are heavily motivated to obtain convictions and only rarely is misconduct caught out and punished.

The real world is messy and inconsistent. Facts can be more or less relevant over time. Nobody cared much about hair and skin cells until they worked out how DNA operates.

And we’re dealing with an entity that can simply disappear if desired.

It’s not that evidence of God exists or doesn’t exist. It’s available, it’s always been available, it will always be available to those who take it upon themselves to open their hearts and minds.

Evidence has to fit the jury’s idea of justice. And if you want a higher standard than God is prepared to provide, then God has literally no incentive to provide it to you.

The best evidence is a personal revelation. An event that leaves no doubt. These events happen to people. They’re hard to communicate to others in a legible fashion. Because of the very nature of the revelation. These are complicated, personal things. For it to leave no doubt, it has to come to you in a time of great need, when you are paying very very close attention to just how bad you have it right then and just how crazy and amazing the intervention was.

We think in terms of scientific proof. But science is exactly the wrong way to think about God. God’s already given us this wonderful world of science that we can explore and master. But to have scientific understanding of God would mean that humans are masters of God! Is a God we can master really God?

This is a timeless question. I haven’t answered it to satisfaction and it likely never will. It’s as old as the other timeless question that God presents, that of how does God permit evil. There are very good answers to that question too, but you have to take the concept of divinity seriously before you can explore them.

Because that’s the challenge God places in front us. Believe first, understanding will come later. I personally explored spirituality for some ten years before I could finally realize that I believed.