But with "God," we don't even know what we're looking for. Even if we did find "evidence," we still may not have sufficient knowledge to make sense of it or confirm it as reliable. If we're talking about some kind of entity which is large enough and powerful enough to create an entire universe literally from scratch, then it could theoretically be some entity which exists outside of our dimension and plane of existence.
This is partly why I lean heavily to ignosticism: that the concept of God isn't even well enough defined to make the existence question meaningful.
If so, it would be practically impossible to even produce one shred of evidence which we could examine or confirm on our current plane of existence. In the end, it's all just a big "maybe." Maybe this, maybe that - but no hard evidence, no direct knowledge. It's all just guessing.
So we have to get busy and define what in the world we are trying to say and only *then* address questions of existence.
Theology begins with guessing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with considering all the possibilities.
Well, that is another issue. There are so many possible imaginary worlds to investigate all of them. That is one reason why testability is such an important tool in finding the truth. It eliminates a huge pile of basically meaningless possiblities.
But theology seems like it goes beyond that. Even if we get beyond the question of whether or not there is some kind of "God" who created the universe, theology also tries to attach some meaning or significance to it, to humans specifically. Theology often tries to attach a certain necessity or urgency for an individual human to find "God" and to accept that there is meaning, significance, and purpose in one's life (even if we don't really know what it is).
That's what theology does. It's not just a matter of considering possibilities. Maybe there is some extra-dimensional being far beyond our comprehension who created the universe for some particular reason. Maybe. But even if that's true, what does any of it have to do with us, here in this tiny little corner of this immense thing known as the universe?
That, for me, is when theology tends to go awry. It's one thing to operate from the assumption that "there is a God," but then to pile more assumptions on top of that is when it starts to go too far.
Exactly. If our universe was created by a super-dimensional teenager as an art project and then forgotten, what difference does it make to us humans? None that I can see.