Change our minds about the existence of God?

[Ihateyoumike]

Although I don't have anything to add to this topic, I'm rather enjoying the read.
 

[Gawen]

So far, I've seen nothing in this thread that would make me want to change my mind on the existence of any god.

[ablprop]

Let's take a simple example. Take a sample of radioactive thorium in a cloud chamber. This is a demo I set up often in my work at a science museum. Every time, without fail, alpha particles come flying off, making amazing tracks in the ethanol atmosphere.

Make it not work.

Now, I will of course exhaust all the possible explanations. First, I'll find out if I forgot to squirt in the ethanol. Next, I'll check to see if I forgot to fill up the cooler under the cart with ice water. Maybe the water pump isn't working. Maybe the field-clearing device is not clearing the field, so that the chamber is saturated with positive charge.

Once I've gotten past all that, then I will be forced to believe that some supernatural entity suddenly made the thorium, with a 10 billion year plus half-life, suddenly become stable. Also, I will win the Nobel Prize.

So do that.

By the way, I still won't worship. Belief and worship are two different things. I believe in Bill Gates, but do not worship him.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Torah, Bible, and Qur'an are all internally contradictory and all of them make prophesies which have not come to pass in the time provided by the prophesy.

And which have in some cases been contradicted -- Tyre, for instance.