I didn't read the link but I get the gist. The answer is totally irrelevant. The available evidence does not lead to the conclusion of an intelligent designer. To fill the unknown with God totally fails. "We don't know what created the universe, so it must have been God" is classic "argument from ignorance" and "god of the gaps" fallacy.
Wasn't a link. I agree somewhat -but only inasmuch as presently available and purely physical evidence does not lead to the conclusion of an intelligent designer -especially not one of a very specific description which is known to be false.
Science is an excellent tool, but alone it is not a perfect tool for every job.
The answer very much lies in credibility -and credibility comes with evidence, time and experience. It also comes by looking in the right places.
I don't think there is any desperately urgent need to scientifically prove the existence of God -and I think that attempting to fill the gaps in others' understanding is usually futile even with valid points, but....
The answer is not irrelevant. Evidence is like pieces of a puzzle. The more evidence collected, the more is known -but also the more the general properties of the unknown can be known. So an and so forth until all is known -if possible.
Filling the
unknown with God totally fails. I agree -but a gap
known to have the characteristics and properties of "God" would be a different story.
Everything that leads to discovery of truth/facts might be called science, and we cannot rely on only one branch of science to discover the whole truth.
Physical science has disproved certain claims about God -but that is only one branch of science focused on specific claims -and NOT claims made by the bible itself.
Physical science would eventually support -or at least not contradict -the existence of any "God" which might exist -but it alone is not necessarily how such a God might initially be proved to exist.
Leaving the consideration of any possible intelligent design of the physical universe which preceded physical life for a moment....
Consider this direct quote from God (consider that a claim if you must).
Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Prophecies written down in ancient times are certainly "things of old" -and
if you are willing to consider them thoroughly -and with an open mind, you WILL -at the very least -find evidence that what has come to pass -the overall course of human history and the succession of kingdoms and nations -was known and recorded before it came to pass.
It IS proof of an extreme INTELLIGENCE -and DOES indicate that the extreme intelligence at least knew the DESIGN of things well enough to know the end results of the collective human lives which are based on a few elements. More evidence will show that he designed the end result -and all things which led to it (consider that a claim if you must).
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had a dream (consider that a claim if you must). Daniel -without being told the dream -told the king what he dreamed -and what it meant.
Dan 2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Dan 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Dan 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
Dan 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Dan 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
Dan 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Dan 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Dan 2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
There are also many other prophecies which give
very specific details about that succession of world-ruling empires/kingdoms -as well as the other nations.
If you are willing to thoroughly research the subject -with an open mind -and not assume things about what you have not thoroughly researched -you WILL find that it is a huge piece -yet only one piece -of the credibility puzzle -and one that physical science -and all other sciences -will support or at least not contradict.
As for physical proof of the creative activities of the God described in the bible, it is likely that you will meet him before man ever reaches the point of understanding that everything is that proof -even everything that can be known about evolution.
The bible does not contradict what is known about evolution in any way (and actually does not truly address the subject -we know that evolution exists and creation exists -and we don't yet know everything about either) -and evidence of a being who acts
through everything would be rather difficult to pin down.
No sense in worrying about it at this point -much sense in acting as correctly as possible and doing good regardless of what scientific facts we know now.
Meeting him will also be a huge piece of the credibility puzzle (consider that a claim if you must). I understand that it may seem as unlikely as meeting Zeus at this point -but at that point it certainly would not.
