You making that claim does not answer the question in the OP. What is evidence? I am not asking what your evidence of the existence of a creator is. I am asking what your understanding of the term evidence is.There is conclusive evidence that life could not have evolved on it's own. What does that leave us with?Gee...here I thought for sure that with all of the theists on this forum insisting that they have 'evidence" to support their positions, that they would be happy to illuminate for everyone what they mean when they use the term "evidence"...
When talking about the Torah, which means instruction not history, you have to know from the start that the challenge to the reader is to discover the teaching which is hidden and not necessarily directly connected to the literal meaning of the words used in the same way the moral of a fairy tale is not obvious and requires intelligent thought to grasp.
The evidence for that teaching is not like DNA left at the scene of a crime. Its an entirely different matter. You have to have a knowledge of Jewish expressions and historical literary techniques used in instructional stories, not a knowledge of beakers, chemicals, and microscopes.
Where science is effective is as a constraint as to whether any possible interpretation of any given story or event is possible or not.
To people who base their beliefs on the bible the evidence for any given claim would have to be found in the bible.
Some people claim that Jesus is God and provide a few verses as shoddy evidence upon which that claim is based. Others say thats impossible and cite volumes of existing teaching in the same book as evidence that refutes that claim.
You get to examine that evidence presented by both sides and decide what the truth is like a member of a jury. You get to use your knowledge of science, history, psychology, philosophy, literature, etc., as reliable constraints in your efforts to comprehend the truth.
Seeking physical evidence for incorporeal realities is as silly as using a microscope, test tubes and beakers to discover whether there is any truth in the story about Jack and the Beanstalk or using a telescope to see if a giant is really living in the castle in the sky.
It makes it look like you just have an ax to grind, aren't interested in the teaching or the truth at all, or are just plain stupid like someone wandering around the deserts of the holy land looking for evidence of God with a shovel.
Its as if that giant that you do not believe in because you can't see it is still keeping the goose that lays the golden eggs out of your reach because you don't have the stones to climb that beanstalk into a higher realm of thought and perception.
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