Fr Dwight Longenecker is right<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\nWhat kind of evidence does the atheist want? What would be the knock-down argument\/evidence?<\/strong><\/p>\nThe most frequently asked question by atheists who come to this blog is \u201cWhat evidence do you have for the existence of God?\u201d My reply is always to ask what sort of evidence they require, but not one of them has ever given me a straight answer. My question is an honest one. What sort of evidence would someone be looking for if they wanted evidence for God? I ask this because there are many things in life that we know exist, or whose existence we accept without question for which there is evidence, but the evidence is not of a scientific nature. I\u2019m thinking of Love, Beauty and Truth for example. These virtues are very real, and the evidence for them is solid, but someone who wished to \u2018prove\u2019 their existence to a doubter would be hard pressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fr Dwight Longenecker is right: What kind of evidence does the atheist want? What would be the knock-down argument\/evidence? The most frequently asked question by atheists who come to this blog is \u201cWhat evidence do you have for the existence of God?\u201d My reply is always to ask what sort of evidence they require, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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