lurkette

So is a book of Greek Mythology.

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The fact that every civilization in the world has or had a religion believing in a higher power. This shows me that somewhere along the line God has directly been involved in the lives of people showing that he exists.

It could just as easily point to an essential human psychological need to believe in (and invent) a higher power to explain inexplicable phenomena.

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The story has changed but God is still there.

Albeit in such disparate incarnations that it's hard to believe they could be talking about the same thing. Look at Hinduism vs. Taoism, or Islam vs. native American shamanism. So yeah, there's some conception of a "higher power" but that doesn't mean it exists, see above. And some religions don't really have a defineable higher power at all (Buddhism, Taoism has the Tao, but that's not really a higher power, it just is everywhere, etc.)

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The fact that scientists and archaelogists are finding evidence to prove stories in the Bible.

That only proves that the events happened and someone wrote about them, not that the accounts about the events, and therefore the rest of the Bible, are true. It's pretty clear that Jesus existed. That doesn't prove that he was the son of God. It's pretty clear that there was a huge flood at some point. That doesn't prove that God was punishing mankind for being evil.

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The fact that the Universe was created and that it was created outside the laws of science.

??? As far as I know the laws of science are perfectly capable of accounting for a number of possible "causes" of the creation of the Universe that don't include a capital-G God.

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