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Reasons can be:
Do you know for sure that "we cannot know anything for sure"?
Therefor? What's your point?
It can be because some people want to know whether such evidence exists or not.
Which religion's God are you referring to in your statement?
What's an SF story?
The reply did interest me, I read it and I didn't fully understand it so I asked you to explain it. If I wasn't interested I wouldn't have done that.
Why is it evil to prove God's existence? Isn't that what the Gods of certain religions want? And why is it evil for a person to say that they have a stronger connection to God than you do?
What's an example of one of those premises?
Ok but why do you think I'd make a good candidate for such a school?
No I'm not sure that's why I said it seems that we can't know rather than I definitely know for sure that we can't know anything with absolute certainty.
My point is that humans are fallible and our brain and senses lie to us so even if we were to have knowledge how can we trust if we've interpreted the knowledge correctly.
I know that but again I asked because it seems an argument can be made both for and against a God's existence, so it ultimately seems unknowable.
Any and all Gods.
Hmmm, I guess you're right.
Lol
That's a bit of a false dichotomy. There are other options as well. The real dichotomy would be a created universe vs an uncreated universe.
Well as I said you've put forth a false dichotomy but for the sake of argument just because humans have certain intuitions about the world that doesn't make them true. Humans intuitively believed that the earth was flat or that the sun orbited the earth, but that conflicts with what is known about the world. So just because humans have certain intuitions that doesn't mean that they're correct.
Or so religions claim.
Again that's what religions claim, can you demonstrate any that there are eternal consequences?
Evidence.
God is invisible, and if I prove to you that God exists it makes me your superior. The next thing you'll be asking me what God thinks and what God wants you to do and where do we all come from and who should in charge except the one who can prove God exists. This is true even where we don't have the term God. In the past a fast way to notoriety was to claim to be able to make predictions by the stars or by cutting livers or looking at bones. This is no different. You can't see God, and you can't prove that God exists, and it follows that you can't speak for God to others. This has political ramifications, maybe not so obvious in our times but should still be obvious. The term for this kind of political power based on magical intuition is divination. Proving God exists is the basis of a new form of divination. Look at how easily people are manipulated. They buy books about stories of people going to the afterlife and returning. Consider the power that Alan Greenspan had when he was head of the Fed. Now didn't a lot of people envy his power? Yes, they did. Consider how some people are bankrupted by mediums. There's a weakness in humanity that is easily exploited, but God is invisible, intangible. That is a good thing. You and I are equal authorities on God.
