How Can You Prove the Existence of God?

Psalm 65:5-8

“You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength, who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy.”

How can you prove the existence of God?  Some people say it is not possible.  In a literal sense this is probably true.  But there are very few things we can prove without some degree of uncertainty, however small that is.  For instance in a court of law, while someone might get convicted of a crime, there is always some small degree to which the conviction could be wrong.  An eyewitness who lied. A DNA sample that was tainted. A case of mistaken identity.   

While at the end of the day although you cannot literally see God, you have to make your decision on whether or not you believe in God by the evidence you can see.  In the psalm today, David says, "God answers us with his awesome and righteous deeds."  He gives several examples of the greatness of God like: creating the ends of the earth and seas, forming the mountains by his power, and the awe and wonder of a morning dawn and evening fading away.  

So how then you say does this prove the existence of God?  There are only two explanations for the wonders we see in our world.  One, there is a God who made it.  Or secondly, it came into existence by accident which set in motion what we see around us by some sort of evolutionary process.  If one advocates the latter explanation, one would need evidence to prove how that random accident came about. And the process by which the beauty which ensued came to be because of that random process. Importantly the question one must answer if they believe everything came into existence by some random process is, "How did order come disorder. How did beauty come from evolution. How was something made from nothing"  How can someone argue something came from nothing.  And if there is something, where did something come from.  Anything created needs a creator, it doesn't just appear out of nowhere.  

Notice I am using an entirely rational argument.  If you are purely rational person you have to pick one or the other, unless you really just don't care.  But assuming you do care, while we may not be able to prove the existence of God in a purely scientific way, at the end of the day one has to make a decision based on the evidence they do have.  We all have the same evidence, the creation all around us. It screams of a Creator.  But then again God will never force anyone to believe in Him.