Why? Because we are psychologically and physiologically capable of it.
You need to be more specific.
In what way is "Originator of all" not specific enough?
I didn't say it unambiguously lead to God, but it gives an idea of how one needs look for evidence of God.
Yes, one must look for evidence that rationally and unambiguously leads to "God" rather than be merely an observation that fits every theory under consideration.
From comprehending the knowledge that if God exists, He is the origin of everything, what, one or two pieces of data, within His effect, would jump out at you and reveal His existence?
IOW what is an atheist looking for when they say ''no evidence''?
And please don't say anything that leads them to acknowledge God. Be more specific.
It would need to be something that can not possibly be evidence that fits any alternative possibility, that can only possibly lead to the conclusion of "God", or at least such that any alternative notion that it does fit fails Occam's razor compared to "God".
And while some have given you examples of what might convince them, I can not say what would convince me. You have asked me this before, and my answer remains the same, whether I accept that God exists or not.
No one's asking you to.
It just put's God, scriptures, and essential religion, into perspective.
How? You have to accept that they are correct, and you have to do so in the same manner that you accept God exists - i.e. without any support whatsoever. Whether you accept the scriptures or not makes them no different in this regard, no better supported. There is no grounds to take them further than acceptance.
Afterall, I could accept with the same level of support that my lawn is blue.
And reveals the shallowness of equating God with invisible sweet-talking pepper pots, performing in a concert on Saturn.
It does no such thing. If anything it merely shows how the analogy is equally valid to the scriptures and essential religion in so as much as they refer to God.
I'm not saying it is evidence of God. I'm saying 'if God exists, then everything is evidence.
But it is evidence of every theory that it fits, even competing theories (and I of course use the term theory unscientifically).
As I said before, that logic gives some perspective.
The perspective of needing to be fallacious to make it meaningful?
It means I have to look at the scriptures, and the whole notion of God differently than anything within the limited range of material existence. The absurd explanation refuses to look at God in any other way than material, and in this way justifies its claim by using absurdity to give the impression that belief in God is no less absurd than belief in very silly things.
By saying that everything is evidence, you are including everything that is material, and yet you say it is somehow wrong to look at the material aspect??
Other than that criticism, I simply can't see how any of your conclusions flow from the "logic" you claim.
Does it not put into perspective the level of evidence that is required to believe in God?
Not really: it has always been, for me at least, at rather a high level - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" etc.
That suggests that it is possible to actually believe in something at will. Do you think that is possible?
No, I don't think we can choose to be irrational, but one person's rationality is another person's irrationality. My point is not that one can choose, but that if one is not in the cycle of believing to believe then one will not believe until some threshold is reached. Likewise one does not escape the cycle until a threshold is reached. And that threshold will be different for each person.
Well, as a theist I can tell you that you are mistaken (at least in some cases).
Please show me, logically, how it is possible to believe in God and yet not believe.
I don't think you fully comprehend my point, because it is fairly simple. I'm no academic, or great thinker.
I don't fully comprehend your point, that much is obvious, and if you want me to understand then I would think the onus is on you to explain. I have tried to point out the areas of contradiction I have noted, of confusion in your replies, and where I simply disagree. You can put that disagreement down to misunderstanding if you want, or simply it is that I do understand, and you do not understand the nature of the disagreement.
It is what it is. Silly. And it works for people who lack comprehension of God.
It works. Period. Whether we deem it silly or not. It is meant to explain precisely and clearly (through exaggeration / comparison to the absurd) why some atheists do not believe in God. It is not meant to work in any other way.
As an explanatory analogy it works.
It has nothing to do with God, or evidence, or not, of God.
Yes it does. It has everything to do with it, and of the atheist perspective of it. If you disagree with the atheist's perspective then of course it will not work to explain your position. But it does work to explain the position of those whose position it is designed to explain.
None seems to see God as God, be it fictional or non-fictional.
How can you agree to those silly notions?
Because whatever their notion of God, the use of the analogy by them tells me that they have no evidence of that notion. That tells me all I need to understand why they do not believe in God (or their notion of it).
If God exists and does not match their notion then the analogy still works in the way it works for anything else for which you have no notion of.
I have no notion of a Sparkkat. I therefore have no awareness of evidence of a Sparkkat, for to have awareness of evidence of a Sparkkat I must have a notion of what a Sparkkat is. The analogy to the celestial teapot thus holds... in that I have as much awareness of evidence for the existence a Sparkkat as I do for a celestial teapot.
Of course, you will find something to disagree with here, but please try to come up with something other than "it's silly".