Possible evidence for the existence of God?

In our secular age more and more people talking about the fact that faith need proof of God's existence. For the person deeply believing there is a God, and it is not necessary to prove neither this man nor God. For the atheist there is no God, and the religious person it is hard to imagine a scientific evidence to change his point of view. But, nevertheless, the argument of atheists to believers is not one thousand years, and during that time had developed a system apparatus of the evidence in favor of existence and non-existence of God. Why this dispute lasts forever, and the disputants undergo the same fiasco? And whether, in this case, these discussions at all? Will try to figure this out.

The error of the theologians of the past is that they tried to prove the existence of a Supreme Power, Supreme Being, first cause, etc., based on the observations of this material world, and tried to provide scientific evidence for the existence of God. By the way, is particularly successful in this Christian tradition, beginning with Tertullian, Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas and ending with Kant. In the Middle ages philosophy was considered the "handmaid of theology”, but theology used the language of philosophy to prove the existence of God. In the year 1078, Anselm of Canterbury, addressing why not to people but to God, brings this argument to prove God a priori His existence: the human mind is the concept of absolute perfection. But if an absolutely perfect being is not present, does not exist in the real world, so it is not absolutely and completely perfect. There is a contradiction, from which Anselm concludes that God exists. Despite the fact that such an a priori proof based many theologians, it is not tenable atheists: if people in different degrees of imperfection exist in this real world, it does not mean that it exists and being absolutely perfect.

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A Brilliant theologian-scholar Thomas Aquinas tried to get out of this situation, putting forward his five proofs of God's existence through a posteriori arguments. Again, these arguments are based on the study of this material world. First proof – through movement: everything in this world is moving for some reason. Therefore, there is a real engine, that is God. The second argument is the Absolute cause of all effects. Nothing is not created is its own cause. Hence, there is the root cause of all that is God. The third argument-the cosmological: because there is a time and things exist in time (that is, when it arose), it follows that there is some timeless entity that caused the time and the existence of things in time and space, i.e. God.

But, say the atheists, after listening to these 3 arguments, here is completely unproven and unscientific premise itself is a God belongs to another sequence is not part of it. Even if we assume that there is some essence, completing the chain of ascent to the root cause of this world, and call it God, it does not mean that this entity is endowed with other qualities that are attributed to God: by grace, omnipotence, ability to read hearts, to forgive sins. These three ontological proof of God's existence gave rise to a Christian theodicy designed to justify God Zatvoritelya the material world for the evil that overwhelmed the world. If a Good God created our world, why this world is not good? If this world is good, maybe it was not made God?

The Fourth argument of Thomas – proof from degrees of perfection: there is absolutely grace in this world, we are witnessing its smaller manifestations. But evil – it's not a lack of grace, where did it go? We can't all maxims to call God. And the fifth argument – proof through the feasibility: all created with a specific purpose, and that the highest goal-God.

Philosopher E. Kant refutes the evidence of God's existence of Thomas of Aquinas and puts its own: because the human heart is the requirements of justice, righteousness, goodness that is the notion that in this world is meaningless because it does not bring financial benefits, therefore, these concepts are given to us from another world, where "a new earth and a new heaven”, in which righteousness dwells. This concept of God as a moral demand, a categorical imperative that compels people to do good deeds and grants, and is the main argument of the moral proof of God's existence. Because in this world there is nothing more useless phenomenon than a virtue.