Quote Originally Posted by darth stoner
If you clear your mind of all preconceptions you have of religion, and from a purely logical and reasonable point you think about the issue, you'll arrive at the only possible answer: god most likely doesn't exist (nobody can't say it doesn't exist for sure, purely for the same reason as we can't say the tooth fairy really doesn't exist, it's just highly unlikely she does..).
Actually, from a purely logical and reasonable point, I still see more evidence of god's existence than non-existence.

The thing is, what you might define as evidence completely depends on your definition of god. If I was to set out on the daunting task of trying to prove the judeo-christian god of the old testament real, I would be hard pressed to find reasonable evidence of his existence beyond some millenia-old scriptures.

The biggest piece of evidence that I can think of in support of the existence of God (at least, as relating to my personal understanding of God) is intelligence. Here is one thing that I don't need to prove to anyone; intelligence exists, and we ourselves are living, breathing and thinking proof of it. All that's left to speculate is where the boundaries between 'intelligent' and 'non-intelligent' lie or whether boundaries even exist at all, which is quite debatable depending on your definition of intelligence.

That said, it seems incredibly illogical to me that we, as intelligent beings, are somehow an expression of an unintelligent universe. How exactly can something that is conscious and alive come to exist from something unconscious and inanimate? It just doesn't make a mote of sense to me.

Some people will attribute this to god; that is, to an external force that brought intelligence into existence among non-intelligence. Personally, I think it makes more sense that the boundaries between intelligence and non-intelligence are illusions that we have created, and that in truth the universe is a lot more intelligent than we give it credit for.