God Is Not Merely An Inference

This is a great quote from D.A. Carson in The God Who is There on how God is not merely the end of an argument after we have looked and analyzed all of the evidence.  While many may think that they can observe all of nature in a non-theistic sort of way, on a neutral playing field, and make conclusions as to whether God exists or not, this practice is, at its core, morally rebellious as well as logically inconsistent.  More on that later, but for now, here is Carson:

"At the end of the day God is not merely an inference, the end of an argument, the conclusion after we have cleverly aligned the evidence.  But if you begin with this God, the testimony to his greatness in what we see all around us is heart stopping.  It takes an enormous act of will on the part of even the most cynical of scientists instead to look at it all and say, "Ah, it's just physics. Stop admiring it.  Don't do that.  There's no design.  It's just molecules bumping into molecules."