The Apologetic Argument

Where do we start when arguing for the existence of God? Is there a proper order of topics in the discussion? This paper draws together many of the varied threads of evidential apologetics into a single argument in the form of a debate between an atheist and a Christian. I argue that our belief in God starts with the direct perception of His being, and that further evidences come in to play primarily as responses to atheist attacks on the validity of that sense of God’s existence. This argument ends up in several issues of quantum mechanics and cosmology presently at the forefront of scientific research.