Good Pudding

I do a lot of debating and apologetics work online so I have to be up on answers to all sorts of critics. Many of these critics, such as the one in recent posts "Excerpts of War 43", focus on evidence of God in creation. In reality this is not a debate of evidences as much as it is between worldviews. A worldview is made up of your a priori commitments or presuppositions; those things that you hold to be true at the core of your understanding without question. Everything else is derived off of that core belief and most people don't keep this in mind when debating evidences, causing most to end in frustration. A person who comes to cast questions on a God topic, yet is unwilling to address or reconsider their presuppositions, will never be able to see evidence for God.

For instance a person open to the possibility of Gods existence can hear the statement, "that things have been created means a creator exists" and they can see the truth in that. It then is evidence leading to the existence of God. However, if a person comes to a discussion and with a fervent belief that nothing exists outside the natural world (the majority of atheists and so-called "science" believers) they will hear the same statement as the first person, but will refuse it because it does not make sense within the framework of their presuppositions. Since it is in opposition in that way, they refuse it as evidence and instead find another way to interpret the world.

Below is an interesting video I purchased from Worship House Media about what evidence for God can be when you aren't already decided on the matter and are thereby willing to consider these things. (Though I wouldn't try using these in a debate it would be good for general discussions.) Anyhow, the proof is in the pudding they say...