What evidence would make you believe in God?

Jerry Coyne asks the question; if this interests you, surf here and jump in.

I gave an answer in terms of believing in a sky-daddy, request granting deity (e. g., I’d believe if, say, I was given a ‘blessing” and all of a sudden I could bench press 600 pounds, run a 2:10 marathon, do Nobel Prize winning physics, or if I were shown 10-20 SPECIFIC, highly improbable predictions (e. g., someone told me NOW that, say, a magnitude x.y earthquake would strike location z at 1345 GMT on December 3, 2010), or if, say, 1000 amputees in New York City were instantly healed as we all watched.

As far as “creative force” deities: I am more of a skeptical agnostic here; that would be a harder sell than a wish-granting sky-daddy deity.

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