Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
The biggest problem with the God hypothesis, so far as I can tell, is accounting for the fact that there is absolutely no concrete evidence for God anywhere. My question is: what kind of God would set things up that way? Why would God create a universe in which it is possible to be an atheist, if he wants us to believe in him?

There are a four ways of explaining this that I can think of:

(1) There is a God, but he doesn't want anybody to believe in him.
(2) There is a God, but he doesn't care whether or not we believe in him, and doesn't care about the feelings of those who are desperately trying to find out for sure whether he is real.
(3) There is a God, and he wants us to believe in him, but for some reason he doesn't like people who can only be convinced by logic and evidence, preferring those who take things on blind faith.
(4) There is no God.
I'd say there's always the possibility that god in some way exists, but in order to allow people to be free can't go about revealing himself. If you knew god existed you couldn't really believe in him. You'd know. Empirical knowledge is very different from belief, but maybe you need both. Maybe god made us not to be perfect but rather to be human.

I'd also suggest the possibly that even if god is simply created by man that doesn't really invalidate the concept.
Do you think its even possible to believe in anything larger or greater than yourself?