Now, there’s a difference between an argument for God and proof. No one can prove or disprove God, it takes faith both ways. Evidence is another thing altogether. There is evidence! (Scientific, historical, literary, philosophical, and testimonial.) Evidence isn’t always conclusive or compelling but can be circumstantial or indirect, subjective or objective. There may be evidence pro and con to an argument. There’s no foolproof argument but there are plenty of arguments or reasons to believe.
But the best argument (but no argument is foolproof but only a reason to believe) that I can see that is shaking up (in that as many as ninety percent of them believe in God now) the cosmologists and astrophysicists is that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything in our reality and the Bible calls this the moment of creation. “In the beginning God created…”
The point proves that the theory of an eternal universe is untenable and it had a beginning and this implies and logically necessitates a Beginner! Nothing causes or creates itself, It must be determined what or who is responsible for it. Everything that begins to exist or any event must have a cause. Who banged the Big Bang? This discovery brings new challenges.
Even Einstein mused: “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.” And he also said that the harmony of natural law indicates a Supreme Intelligence. Creation was pre-programmed with some fifty universal constants called the Anthropic Principle (The fine-tuning of the cosmos) implying a Designer and Supreme Mind at work. Nothing can cause or create itself and this implies as Aristotle thought, a First Cause, because it’s impossible to cross infinity and an infinite regress of causes is impossible. God’s name also means “I CAUSE TO BE” Note: This is not the complete argument but a synopsis and volumes could be written to support it.
An atheist will use circular reasoning to refute arguments: I don't believe in miracles because they are impossible. I don't believe Jesus is God because I don’t believe He claimed to be. Even if they lost the argument you would not convince them; you cannot argue someone into God’s kingdom nor rationalize God to an infidel. They will tell you: There is no God because I have not experienced or seen Him or that He cannot be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. They want it as easy to believe in God as to believe in the sun or the moon in the sky.
But know this: You can not disprove God either as a philosopher will tell you that it’s impossible to prove a universal negative. There are many arguments for God and much evidence from science, literature, history, philosophy, and personal testimony. But there is no “smoking gun” argument that is absolutely foolproof and if you don't want to believe you cannot be forced to. God will force Himself on no one.
Brilliance and intellect don’t please God. Only faith pleases Him (cf. Heb. 11:6), “the world by wisdom knew not God” (cf. 1 Cor. 1:21). Jesus said that “if a man is willing to do His will, then he shall know” (cf. John 7;17). The proverb goes, “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” No amount of evidence will make someone believe who doesn’t want to: Jesus said in John 12:37 that although the Pharisees had seen many miracles they would not believe, not could not believe—it’s a person’s stubborn heart. Remember all the miracles Moses had done? Israel still refused to believe! (cf. Psalm 78:32).
But the atheist has faith too! He has faith in science or in man’s reasoning and logic. Faith in science is still faith! It’s not a matter of faith versus reason as he thinks but faith versus faith and it all depends upon what presupposition you are willing to accept. Both sides of the equation contain people of faith. In fact, it takes more faith to be an atheist than a theist because there’s so much evidence! All knowledge is contingent and starts with faith, not just about God. Soli Deo Gloria!
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