The Evidence for God
“There’s No Evidence for God”? Really? Let’s Look.
Evidence isn’t just test tubes and telescopes. It’s logic, mathematics, information, consciousness. Everything naturalism can’t explain but theism predicts.
Here’s the evidence:
1. The universe began
Every physicist agrees: spacetime had a birthday. Whatever begins requires a cause. The cause of spacetime can’t be spatial or temporal. It must be spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful. Exactly what theists call God.
2. Fine-tuning isn’t fine. It’s absurd
Change gravity by 1 part in 10^60, no stars. Alter the cosmological constant by 1 part in 10^120, no universe. This isn’t “fine” tuning. It’s telepathic-archer-hitting-an-atom-across-the-universe tuning. Design or miracle odds. Pick one.
3. Mathematics predicts reality
Dirac’s equation predicted antimatter. Einstein’s math predicted black holes. Maxwell’s equations predicted radio waves. The universe doesn’t just follow math. It is math. Mind, not matter, speaks mathematics.
4. Information requires intelligence
Every cell contains 3 billion base pairs encoding functional information. Not patterns. Instructions. We’ve never seen instructions write themselves. Ever. Books require authors. Code requires coders. DNA requires intelligence.
5. Consciousness can’t be computed
No amount of circuits produces first-person experience. Computation shuffles symbols; consciousness experiences meaning. You can’t get “what it’s like” from “what it does.” Matter doesn’t wake up.
6. Moral facts exist
Torturing babies for fun is wrong. Not just unpopular, wrong. The Holocaust wasn’t just “not our preference.” If morality is real, it needs grounding beyond human opinion. Physical facts can’t generate moral facts. Only moral beings can.
7. Reason itself requires God
If our brains are just chemical accidents, why trust them? Evolution selects for survival, not truth. A brain evolved to avoid predators has no business doing quantum physics. Unless mind designed mind.
8. The universe is comprehensible
Why should ape brains understand cosmic origins? Why should math work at all? Why are physical laws simple enough to write on a napkin? Chaos doesn’t produce comprehensibility. Intelligence does.
9. Beauty, love, and meaning persist
If we’re just atoms, love = oxytocin, beauty = neural firing patterns, meaning = delusion. Yet no one lives that way. Everyone acts like these things are real. Because they are.
10. Changed lives across millennia
Billions report direct experience of God. Transformed addicts, healed marriages, radical forgiveness, unexplainable peace. Mass delusion? Or mass evidence you’re ignoring?
The Combined Case:
We have:
A universe that shouldn’t exist
Fine-tuning that defies probability
Mathematical elegance underlying chaos
Information without material source
Consciousness without material cause
Moral facts without material grounding
Reason that trusts itself without justification
Comprehensibility without explanation
Universal human experiences that materialism denies
Billions of testimonies across cultures and time
That’s not proof. But it’s evidence.
Mountains of it.
The Evidence for the Christian God
“But Which God?”
Fair question. Let’s get specific.
The Evidence for the Christian God:
1. The Jewish anomaly
An insignificant tribe predicted they’d bless all nations, survive every empire, and return to their homeland after exile. Babylon fell. Rome fell. The Jews remained. Israel exists. Statistical impossibility or prophetic fulfillment?
2. Messianic fingerprints
Over 300 prophecies. Born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). Killed by crucifixion, predicted before crucifixion existed (Psalm 22). Arrives 483 years after rebuilding Jerusalem (Daniel 9). The odds? 1 in 10^157. That’s more than atoms in the universe.
3. The resurrection problem
The disciples died claiming they saw Jesus alive. Not “spiritual experience.” Physical meetings. Liars don’t die for lies they invented. Hallucinations don’t happen to 500 people at once. The tomb was empty. Rome couldn’t produce a body. Jerusalem couldn’t explain it.
4. The manuscript mountain
5,800+ Greek manuscripts. 10,000+ Latin. 500+ Aramaic. Compare: Homer’s Iliad has 1,900. Caesar’s Gallic Wars? 10. We have better evidence for Jesus’ words than for any ancient figure.
5. The transformation pattern
Saul the persecutor becomes Paul the apostle. Constantine the pagan becomes defender of faith. Augustine the hedonist becomes theologian. Millions report the same pattern: encounter, transformation, purpose. Mass psychology? Or mass evidence?
6. The hostile witnesses
Tacitus, Pliny, Josephus, the Talmud. Enemies of Christianity confirm: Jesus existed, was crucified under Pilate, followers claimed resurrection, movement exploded. Even critics couldn’t deny the basics.
7. The hunger fit
Every culture seeks God. Every heart craves purpose. Every conscience knows guilt. Christianity doesn’t just answer questions. It explains why we ask them. The lock proves the key exists.
8. The person of Christ
Peasant carpenter splits history. Illiterate fishermen write timeless literature. Movement without weapons conquers empire. Jesus claimed to be God and rose to prove it. Lunatic, liar, or Lord. Those are your options.
9. Present power
Addictions broken. Marriages restored. Depression lifted. Hatred transformed to love. Not self-help: surrender. Not psychology: power. Millions. Daily. Globally. Documented.
10. The explanatory scope
Christianity explains:
Why the universe exists (Creation)
Why it’s broken (Fall)
Why we long for better (Eden echo)
Why God allows suffering (Love requires freedom)
Why Jesus matters (God entering the rescue)
Why it will end well (Restoration coming)
No other worldview explains more with less.
The Final Analysis
The Test:
Christianity makes falsifiable claims:
If Christ didn’t rise, it’s false
If the tomb wasn’t empty, it’s false
If the prophecies failed, it’s false
If lives aren’t changed, it’s false
2,000 years later? Still standing. Still transforming. Still explaining.
The Bottom Line:
Naturalism believes in:
Something from nothing
Life from non-life
Mind from matter
Morality from molecules
Order from chaos
Everything from nothing
Christianity believes in:
Mind before matter
Life from Life
Design from Designer
Purpose from Person
Order from Orderer
Everything from Everything
One requires blind faith in nothing creating everything.
One requires evidence-based faith in Everything creating everything.
The question isn’t “Where’s the evidence?”
The question is “Why are you ignoring it?”
Science explores how.
The evidence points to Who.
History reveals which Who.
What’s your excuse for not looking?
We don’t reject science. We reject the philosophy wearing its lab coat.
Theism makes one claim: Mind precedes matter.
Christianity makes one addition: That Mind entered matter.
The evidence agrees.
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