What is the evidence for your religion?
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What kind of evidence?\n\n You wont get it that easily because Hindus do not believe it does matter. They simply do not feel the need to prove anything.So they have not presented details seeking evidences and publishing and pointing it out. \nDwarika, city of Krishna has been discovered some years back under sea. Mahabharat clearly stated that after Krishna's death Dwarika had submerged into sea. Krishna had asked Arjun to move the population from the city.\n\nThe recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in tretha yuga (more than 17,00,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme.\n\nBut archealogical evidences prove only that the person existed. \n\nGod (concept of or the real thing) is not about proof.\n\n        If you logic is your evidence in that case Hinduism is a vast philosophy. It is called SAnatan and is sanatan(eternal). It starts with most early beliefs and covers almost every kind of religious philosophy.  It has kings among its philosophers and even shudra philosophers. From Vashishtha, Agastya etc to kabeer and sant ravidas(a cobbler) had something to contribute.\n\nAccording to Carl Sagan, (1934-1996) astro-physicist, in his book Cosmos says:\n\n"The Hindu religion  is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. \n\nHindu cosmography, for example born in hoary antiquity, strikes one in certain ways as surprisingly modern. India has never limited its conception of time to a few crowded millennia. Thousands of years ago India's sages computed the earth's age at a little over two billion years, our present era being what is called the seventh Manuvantra. This is a staggering claim. Consider how much scientific evidence has been needed in the West before men could even imagine so enormous a time scale.\n\n"Hindu cosmography, for example born in hoary antiquity, strikes one in certain ways as surprisingly modern. India has never limited its conception of time to a few crowded millennia. Thousands of years ago India's sages computed the earth's age at a little over two billion years, our present era being what is called the seventh Manuvantra. This is a staggering claim. Consider how much scientific evidence has been needed in the West before men could even imagine so enormous a time scale." \n\n(source: Crises in Modern Thought: The Crises of Reason - By Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) vol. 1 p - 94)\n\nPrinceton University’s Paul Steinhardt and Cambridge University’s Neil Turok, have recently developed The Cyclical Model. \n\nThey have just fired their latest volley at that belief, saying there could be a timeless cycle of expansion and contraction. It’s an idea as old as Hinduism, updated for the 21st century. The theorists acknowledge that their cyclic concept draws upon religious and scientific ideas going back for millennia — echoing the "oscillating universe" model that was in vogue in the 1930s, as well as the Hindu belief that the universe has no beginning or end, but follows a cosmic cycle
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have you got your own religion?\n\n sign me up!
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check your bible for answers
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You are right.   And as for the person who said "show me the evidence" it will never be shown to you.  Eternity is in our hearts, and God is evident.   This earth is preserved for brimstone and fire.  God's spirit will lead you if you ask.
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Creationism.  Although largely faith based there is also substantial evidence for creation....\n\n....as well as hardly any evidence for evolution....
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EVIDENCE OF GOD\n\nWe live on a planet teeming with life. Plant life with approximately 250,000 species. Animal life with over a million species. Scientist are learning just how complex life is. So complex that it requires design. The evidence of design requires a designer. Scientists are also learning the conditions for life, just how perfect conditions here on planet Earth are to support all this life. \n\nTo think, people believe this all happened by chance. Yes the odds are 1 in 1(with a billion trillion zeros behind it). Yes it is a belief by many that this all just happened by chance. That belief takes a greater faith than believing in a Creator.
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The defense of the Christian faith using logic and reason. Most people don't know you can prove the claims of the Bible beyond a reasonable doubt. For example, the resurrection of Christ is a provable fact of history.
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All religions have creation stories (or at least most of them) so no, that's not proof.
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Whether God exists is not the question. If you look you can see God's hand in life all around you. The question is more of what is God?  Through logical discourse, testimony of other people and other such evidence you can start to decide whether any religion has a clue, whether God is a factor of the human collective or spirits or whatever conclusion you can deduce from the evidence. \n\nThe first step is to look for inconsistancies in magnitude or frequency which imply intelligence over the normal chaos of randomness. If there is no God then the chaos factor will rule. There will be occasional accidents which can seem as if there was intelligent action behind them. By nature these must be rare as the result must be random if there is no God. I am talking about matters beyond normal human control that is. Also about understood factors. Cancer going into sudden remission is beyond our ability to understand right now. It cannot be claimed or refuted as a mircle because we just don't know enough to say. \n\nInstead look to things we do understand the mechanics of. Then look for the unexplained. A %100 fatal disease suddenly being cured is an example. Of course the diagnosis has to be accurate and the remission total. Changes in peoples lives from external sources. The mechanics of social interaction are well understood. The flight of a butterfly perhaps holds a clue if you study it with an open mind. To see God's hand you have to look for it. It won't often slap you accross the face and you can deny it's existance despite postive proof just as easily as you can find proof in randomness if you have decided before opening your eyes what you intend to see and work at seeing just that. To prove of disprove you have to look as objecctively as you can. Drop as many predisposiions as you can and just look for a while. After you look follow up possible leads and objectively say this might be or this can be explained by such and such and assign a probability of that being a reasonable explanation. Many "acts of God" are pure randomness. There comes a point where random is too random though in my opinion. Where mathimatical odds of coincidence become too high to be remotely acceptable. \n\nI believe there is God. The nature of God is something I am trying to learn right now. I reject all theology at this time as it is subjective and the nature of God to me is too important an aspect to just accept somebody else's opinion. I want to know for myself what it is. So I examine all the possibilities and discard those that discredit themselves. In general the preponents of a description of God to me are irrelivent. Bad people taint good ideas all the time. Still if a theology is by nature corrupt it will produce %100 corruption in it's proponents. If I meet a large enough sampling and see a commmon trait prescribed by that theology I'll reject that theologie's dogma as harmfull. That does not make the base theology wrong, just the surrounding dogma and celibration of it harmfull. Too many people reject God as non-existant based on very subjective criteria. Bad experiences with the application of dogma for example. Bad experiences with theology is another. They forget Theology is a man made thing. People do what they will with information, information being just another tool in man's hand. It can be used for good or bad. The source of the theology is distinct and different. To blame God for the actions of a clergy group is like blaming iron for being made into a sword. Iron is an ore that minds it's own business in the ground. Men discover it and make what suits them from it. This is free will in action. It is free will though that makes me believe in God the most. Nature abhor's a vacume and free will is a vacume of power. It is an unatural state. It's existance a rebuke to randomness and nature. All other elements follow closely very prescribed rules. Life does what it pleases when it
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What makes you think that you are right? Doesn't the person who believes in another religion or none at all have the same proof or deep beliefs in their faith?  What makes you think that they aren't all the same or that your way is the only right way?
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If you don't believe you don't believe.  It is OK.  Why should you believe in somehting of which there is no proof?  \n\nIn my personal opinion, there are only three reasons people become religious:\n\n1)  They are fearful.  Fearful of death, fearful of not knowing the purpose of their existence, fearful of losing everything that they value in this life (which you will, gauranteed).  Fear is a powerful motivator and when someone offers you a way to manage that fear through a belief system it can be tempting to accept.  There is no need to resort to philosophy, science or psyhcology.  There is no need to accept that there are rational and scientific explanations that we as humans simply don't know yet.   Just believe that someone's making it all right in the end and you're all set.\n\n2) They are seeking a path to redemption for past sins.  They are having difficulty coping with the consequences of some bad action they have taken in thier life, and or are trying to control some compulsive behavior that has caused hardship in their life.  Either they were in prison, got caught with a prostitue, or drank themselves out of job and their family, or simply told a horrible lie that they feel guilty about.  Religion offers instant redemption and rituals to help you ease your mind through repentance.  \n\n3)  They have a strong natural desire for community and companionship.  Having someplace to go every Sunday with likeminded people or having rituals to follow when someone dies, or having a language or framework to use when communicating your values with others can be very comforting.  If your family already subscribes to these beliefs you even may feel pressure to accept things that your logical mind tells you are impossible and&#92;or unlikely.\n\nYou can deal with these three situations through patience, meditation, compassion, seeking help from others, and community activism, or you can choose to believe in supernatural beings and mythology.  My personal opinion is that there is no easy way out of any problem so that when a christian says I can instantly have my sins forgiven or a Scientologist tells me that body thetans are causing my suffering, or some guru tells me that my Shakras just need alignments, I usually take a pass.
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If you did not, now you do. I will bet that you will get a lot of religious people asking for proof, well, if they can't prove these exists then they do not. (And no they can't prove it)
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Evidence is not for those without faith. When someone chooses not to believe, there is no study, experiment, or proof that will convince them otherwise. They will always find a way to rationalize the evidence you present to them. Faith is a gift from God to the Believer, and does not come from OURSELVES.  You either Believe God's supernatural power, and the benefit of prayer, or you don't.
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What study do you have that proves this?
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Well, in so far as religions are concerned you might like to do a web-search on spiritualist churches. They believe in ghosts, spirit communications, and a wide variety of paranormal things. You'll also find wide acceptance of such things in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Wicca. For myself I don't need hard evidence, just a logical premise. That's good enough for me. And I don't discount emotions in such things. Logic has its place. So do emotions. So as often as not I follow my feelings, just as I often follow my thinking.
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What evidence might that be?
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No one has proof. That's why it's called faith.\n\nThe real question is why do you need to beleive?