Journal LawfulGood's Journal: Is it possible to prove the existence of a God... 4
Is it possible to prove the existence of a god, or another being not residing in the same dimension as us, with only evidence from this world?
Great question! Here's my take. Christians do believe in another "dimension", or realm, or whatever you want to call it. This realm is the "supernatural." Not in an eerie, ghost-like way. But simply "above nature." It is the realm of the divine, of ideas, morality, will and intelligence.
Your question of evidence is directly on point. As another response to your question observes; there are an infinite number of things to believe in, if you require no evidence. The evidence for this realm is within ourselves.
If you look at yourself, you can observe that you have a free will. You can choose to do, and not to do, a wide variety of things. If there is nothing above nature, from whence does this remarkable ability come? If we are nothing more than atoms and space, we should be nothing more than a ball rolling downhill. Our trajectory, speed and ultimate destination determined as soon as we began to move, determined by the physical laws that control all other matter. Yet we aren't that way. Even people who hold that they have no free will, don't behave that way in their real lives. Just take off with their wallet and see how quickly they believe in your free will and hold you accountable for it.
We also observe that we have morality. That's a word that carries a of baggage these days... I'm talking about large scale morality. Like, it's better to feed a million people than to torture them to death. However, morality itself depends upon a supernatural realm. If there is not a "good" defined and enforced by something higher than nature, then there is no "good" at all. And there is no "evil." If this is the case, than there really is no ultimate difference between Mother Theresa and Hitler. There's no difference between giving your kid a hug or pushing him down the stairs. Again, even people who deny the supernatural, don't really live their lives that way. If you try to do something evil to them, they (either themselves or through law enforcement) hold you accountable for what you do. They expect you to know the moral law and respect it, even while denying that there is a moral law.
There are more examples, but this is already getting really long. The point is this. There's something special about humans. We are matter, but we are free. We are animals, but we recognize morality. If there is nothing above nature, than those are illusions. And if they are illusions, than "humanity" is an illusion. We may as well murder, steal, rape and plunder, because it doesn't make any difference, and we're not in control anyway. But if you look at yourself, I believe that you know better. You don't know in a scientific manner. Science (the study of nature) is powerless to study that which is above nature. You know internally. You know in what a Christian calls "your heart." It's a part of you. And you'd have to work to suppress it.
And that's, IMHO, is the answer to your question. The evidence of God is in you. In your will. In your morality. The one place in all of creation where you have the "inside track." We don't know what it's like to be anything else but ourselves. And when we look at ourselves, we find evidence for the supernatural... or if we don't, we find what C.S. Lewis called the "Abolition of Man" if we deny the supernatural. For we have to deny all that makes us human.
Speaking of Lewis, he's was a former atheist, just like me. And a professor at Oxford, totally unlike me.
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