Does God Exist? Can we tell if we based this question only upon the apparent randomness of everything?

Jeremy Tan

doi:10.67690/x8tmte22

Does God Exist? Can we tell if we based this question only upon the apparent randomness of everything?

Authors

J. Tan

Astronomy Society PH

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.67690/x8tmte22

Abstract

Excluding scientific, archaeological and other evidence that God exists, I play a ‘what if’ scenario where the existence or non-existence of God rests solely on the apparent random events that took place in all of history. The seemingly random events that happened in our personal lives and so on. It examines the rise and collapse of empires, political regimes, warfare, illness, reported miracles, and the failure of many perpetrators to receive earthly justice. The evidence does not establish that these events are literally random; many have identifiable biological, political, or social causes. Nevertheless, their outcomes frequently appear non-monotonic and morally indiscriminate, with no consistent relationship between moral character and health, longevity, safety, prosperity, or political success. Naturalism interprets this pattern through impersonal causation and probability, whereas biblical theology appeals to human agency, regular natural processes, hidden providence, suffering, and delayed judgment. Apparent randomness therefore creates an evidential difficulty for expectations of continuously visible divine control, but it does not independently prove or disprove God because the same observations remain compatible with competing metaphysical interpretations.

Author Biography

J. Tan, Astronomy Society PH

Jeremy Tan is an Independent Researcher. He studies Astronomy, Geology, Genetics and World War II History. He went to the Mater Carmeli School for ALS and the Philippine Cultural College. He also studied computer science during his school days. He also collects toys from action figures, World War II planes, ships, tanks and a lot more. He is also a member of the Thermomix Family and goes to CGC Manila. He is the Editor-in-Chief at TIR.

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