Q&A: How should a person who has not arrived at a certain logical argument for God's existence or non-existence conduct himself?
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How should a person who has not arrived at a certain logical argument for God's existence or non-existence conduct himself?
Question
Hello Rabbi, I am a young man searching for a sufficient argument that would decide one way or the other on this question. And I thought to myself: until I find that argument, if there is one in the meantime, how should I conduct myself? Is my starting point that God exists until I find an argument that He does not, or is the starting point that He does not exist until I find that He does? I hope I expressed myself clearly.
Answer
You expressed yourself clearly, and I don’t have an answer. It depends on what you think before the evidence.
Discussion on Answer
I do
Thank you.
That is to say, in a neutral evidentiary situation, is there no basic intuition of a Creator’s existence?