There is no evidence for the existence of God. [View all]

[guillaumeb]

A common assertion, and thinly dressed in the language of logic and science, but a meaningless assertion.

When anyone talks of evidence, what exactly do they mean?

If they are looking for evidence, what is the nature of the entity known as God?

What characteristics would God have, and how would they manifest in the observable universe?

And, how does the initial statement fit with the multiverse theory advanced by Stephen Hawking, among others?

In this physical Universe, it's important to observe all that we can, and to measure every bit of knowledge we can glean. Only from the full suite of data available can we hope to ever draw valid, scientific conclusions about the nature of our Universe. Some of those conclusions will have implications that we may not be able to measure: the existence of the multiverse arises from that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/17/what-is-and-isnt-scientific-about-the-multiverse/#55332da925c4

Accepting for the moment the possibility that this observable universe is only one part of the multiverse, how would the initial assertion that there is no evidence play out?

Let us use a parable to consider the argument:

Think of this universe, the one we live in, as one room in a house. A room with no currently observable doors or windows. A room from which, at this point, we cannot leave.
What could we reasonably say about the other rooms?
What could we say about what exists in the other rooms? Or does not exist?
What could we say about how our universe is affected by other universes?