On God and religion #3

Whether or not it is true that a being (or beings) created life as we know it seems more than a frivolous question. Like any other ontological claim, we need to look at the evidence in favor of the existence of that being, a.k.a. God (for the sake of simplicity, let’s call all understandings of a higher power or powers God). Some will argue that all you need to do is open your eyes to see proof (proof everywhere), while others will argue that all you need to do is close them and look inward. To speak as safely as possible, I can only refer to my own experience. This is to keep in mind the possibility of those who believe they have or even have experienced a “miracle.” I was raised Catholic and for a large portion of my life believed in, prayed to, and more or less, worshipped God. The evidence for me was extrinsic and intrinsic. The complexities and logical order of the world seemed to necessitate His (Catholic God) existence, and moments by myself or in reflection seemed anything but alone. The feeling, perhaps, is evidence; this much I don’t care to challenge here. However, my explanation of that feeling was the result of my environment, my catholic upbringing. In a different upbringing my feeling might have been explained via another deity, deities, or perhaps, left unexplained. This is not frivolous seeing as how God is often invoked as a moral compass—indeed that was His role in my childhood. But the specifics of this role, what is or isn’t objectively moral, are far from casually linked to that feeling. What about that feeling would point me deductively to the Qur’an or the Torah or the New Testament? Should we deduce from this that God is a figment of our imaginations? That would seem to be reaching equally as far as inferring that God is Mormon, Male or Female.