To my new friend who claims to be “good for no reason…”

Twitter is a difficult format for discussion.

Barely enough space to complete a thought.

I need a few more lines of dialogue than Twitter affords.

My first tweet playfully implies that evidence for God’s existence is abundant.

Since you requested specific evidence,

I assume you’re considering a career as a detective.

Good for you!

Law enforcement is a noble profession!

Let’s examine my evidence and your responses.

And we’ll determine whether or not you should continue your career track.

Exhibit ‘A’ is man’s desire to understand himself.

Your own drive to know your origins is unique to human kind.

No other life form seeks evidence for God.

(I have a tank full of fish that are completely uninterested in this discussion.)

I posit that people, and only people, long to know the reason for their existence.

This due to mankind being made ‘in God’s image’.

In response, you referred to Exhibit ‘A’ as:

“Rubbish.”

I’ll assume that despite the additional verbiage in your tweet,

you didn’t completely misunderstand the point of Exhibit ‘A’.

Unless it is disallowed from the start, evidence must be explained before it can be dismissed.

I assume you’re disallowing Exhibit ‘A’.

So we’ll move on!

Exhibit ‘B’ is your own ability to discern true and false.

You must believe you have this ability.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t declare Exhibit ‘A’ to be “rubbish”.

Your ability to think is strong evidence for God’s existence.

Intelligence only arises from intelligence.

You responded:

“More mindless jibberish…”

Jibberish (or gibberish) is unintelligible talk.

Declaring Exhibit B to be unintelligible does remove the burden of a response.

One cannot respond to unintelligible nonsense.

Unfortunately, your inability to understand the evidence does not negate said evidence.

I’m unclear how a friendship with @DeepakChopra is germane.

Exhibit C is:

 

Your self description, “I’m good without reason…”,

is incoherent without God.

Please understand…

I’m not saying it’s incoherent without belief in God.

Without the existence of God, the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are relative.

Who says you’re ‘good’?

And there must be a reason for behaving as you do.

Even if that reason is pure instinct.

Instinctive behavior isn’t noble.

It’s not possible to behave otherwise.

That means…

 

Okay…

Um…

Your claim wasn’t, “I’m good without holy text.”

Text (holy or otherwise) is not the same thing as reason.

You jumped off track and…

…you know what…

…never mind.

I’ll just stand behind my original tweet.

“If you can’t find evidence that God exists, don’t plan on a career as a detective.”