In order to determine whether God exists or not, one must be able to answer the following question: **If there was a God, how would we know?** ### Worst case scenarios 1. If there was a God that left no evidence pointing to his existence, we wouldn't be able to prove or disprove his existence. 2. If there was no God, no evidence of his existence would exist, so we wouldn't be able to prove or disprove his existence. ### Possible case 3. If there is a God, and if that God left evidence pointing to his existence, we may be able to find enough it to outweigh the modeled probability of him not existing. Since exploring the first two cases would be tautologous, let's explore the third one. *If there was evidence of God, what would that evidence look like?* Without diving into the cosmological evidence and the implied extraspatiotemporality of God, we can break down what evidence is and go after it. Evidence is information that can point to some phenomena. Since you can read this we can imply you've lived enough to be able to read and you may have not directly observed any evidence that would directly point to God yet, so let's look at what others think they have perceived to be evidence of God. Since people have been around for far longer than any individual reader of this article, it would be wise to expand the search from currently living people to all records of people in history. The longest-lasting forms of communication that preserves information well is the written form of communication. Texts, carvings and scrolls can store information in an unaltered state for thousands of years. *What information would the texts need to contain?* To distinguish if a piece of information is anthropogenic or [[theogenic]], we must look for information that cannot be produced by humans. Humans are capable of observing and recording everything in the past and the present with the right tools, but to record the future, that they are bad at. Exploiting this flaw in humans, we can set a criteria for us to classify information to be theogenic. *Classifying anthropogenic and theogenic information* Humans can write a lot of things about the future, and by mere chance some of those writings can coincide with the future events that they are describing. After all, we have tools for estimating the future as-well. So, the criteria must be strict. Let's be conservative and declare the criteria of theogenic information to be a perfect chain of multiple, very improbable prerecorded events (also known as prophecies) occurring, with **none** of those prerecorded events failing to occur. Interestingly enough, the same criteria is defined in the Christian Bible. <br> ![[Deut-18#v21]] ![[Deut-18#v22]] \- Deuteronomy 18:21-22 <br><br> ![[1 Thess-05#v20]] ![[1 Thess-05#v21]] \- 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 <br><br> ![[1 Cor-14#v29]] \- 1 Corinthians 14:29 --- Date of publication: 2026-05-31