Is there any proof God exists?

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Plenty out there, start reading up on particle physics. And anyhow how is this even relevant. We have no knowledge what is outside this universe. The only people who seem to think they do are the religious who somehow think they can have a free pass with an uncaused first cause.

I said evidence, not something I'd have to invest my life in to supposedly understand.
When science thinks it has a free pass to completely guess on things they can't possibly understand, it becomes irrelevant to try and make an effort to prove God.
When a stranger asks a you how to get to the hospital, you don't tell them get a map do you?
No, you give them directions, or at least lead them in the right direction by telling them who would know and how to get a hold of them.
I could say the same thing, read the bible, but we both know you find that as ridiculous as I find string theory ridiculous.

@ sophisticated Agreed, but of the little knowledge we have, NON was not brought to us via religious doctrine.

I will admit getting your head around particle physics is not easy, after all it goes against most of our prejudices regarding what we think of as common sense, but it is worth the effort, once you get a rough handle on it the discoveries are simply awe inspiring.

Oh and in case you were wondering I have read the bible, very interesting collection of short stories I must say. I have heard some people actually believe them, cant for the life of me understand why.

Pathetic.

Really? I'm genuinely asking you to illuminate my world to your way of thinking and that is all you have to say?
I was actually hoping to learn something. It would mean a lot to me if I understood your beliefs.

utter nonsense. The scientific method is not logically flawed

We can't even scientifically verify the existence of such intangibles as love and hate, yet we see the effects of these emotions in the world around us all the time. We cannot "prove" them yet we can observe them as real.

There is no proof that anything exists, except your own mind. Everything you see, touch, eat, breathe, hear, smell, including your own body - all of it may be a hallucination, or a dream. Other than the existence of your own consciousness, anything you accept as true, is something you choose to believe.

That said, you need to specify to what "god" you are referring. There are and have been hundreds (at least) of deities worshiped by human beings, some local nature spirits, some said to be the lord of this or that natural phenomenon, some lauded as the one and only, gen-u-wine, original Creator-of-the-Universe. Even within a single religion, you will find different experts disagreeing on the qualities of their accepted divinity.

Since you reference Heaven and refer to this god as HE, I assume you're talking about Yahweh, the god of Abraham and the supposed progenitor of Jesus Christ. You talk about "Heaven" in the same way most Sunday School children and adult fundamentalists do, as though it were a physical PLACE, with pearly gates and streets of gold. That may be pablum fit for the dimwitted masses, but no serious, intelligent seeker after truth believes that. It's like autistic kids who take metaphors literally. To imagine that the creator of the universe lives in cloud city, sitting on a throne, growing a long white beard and watching for sinners to spank is just stupid, just as the extremists who believe that the same Creator of all Men wants them to murder their brothers and sisters for not belonging to the correct cult, and they'll be rewarded for this fratricide with 72 virgins. What they ought to ask is "Virgin what"?

If you want to understand what the concept of "God" actually means, you need to study Quantum Physics and String Theory - because all the mysteries unfolding in those fields of study today are the very things that the wisest and most insightful explorers of inner space have been telling us for centuries - but you can't begin to grok what they're telling you, until you start to grasp just what spacetime dimensionality really implies - until you wrap your head around the fact that all matter is vibrating energy and that the world you think you live in is just 4 dimensions out of at least ten and possibly an infinity.

Your five senses can only comprehend width, breadth, height and time. There may be entire universes full of life passing by at the tip of your nose, that you simply don't have the physical ability to perceive. Could "God" or "gods" (or unicorns and fairies) be in one of them? Even more likely, could all those worlds (including this one) be inside of God? Are we characters in God's imagination? Is the multiverse a hologram, conscious unto itself? If God is pure conscious energy, maybe all the physical universes and the life forms in them are simply God's way of gaining experience and learning about itself, by engaging in role playing games.

Now, that said, let's turn to your questions about why God might sit by and allow bad things to happen. First, define "bad." If God is all, then both positive and negative, light and dark, good and evil, pleasure and pain - all of these are parts of God and yet, none of them are real, they are only conceptual constructs. You cannot perceive light without darkness as contrast. If you never felt sad, how would you know when you were happy? If you never experienced rain, why would you care about another sunny day?

Black and white are just opposite sides of the same circle. The world of experiences could not exist without both. Without the choice of good or evil, creation and destruction, we could not have free will - we would all be mindless puppets with only ONE course to follow. To be truly free, you have to have a choice, even if that means one of those choices is a negative one. Any creator who constantly interfered in our choices and forced us to go in a specific direction would not be a loving creator, but a dictator tyrant and we would be toys, not thinking, growing individuals.

I don't believe God "hides" from humanity, I think people often choose to be blind - look at the complexity of the universe we can see (and remember its only one of many), from the orbits of electrons, to living microbes, to visceral, breathing nature, to solar systems, galaxies, black holes and a universe so vast we can't even see the edges of it. As much as pessimistic materialists might like to insist that its all a cosmic accident and we're just bags of chemicals who wink out like a TV screen and disappear when we die, I don't believe that (and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary). I have had experiences that have shown me glimpses of what lies beyond the usually closed doors of our normal perception - and if you think this universe is a big place - you ain't seen nothin' yet.

The truth is, your brain is not the source of your consciousness - your brain is like a radio receiver, and the you that lives in this world is just a tiny fragment of the whole you (like the voice that comes through the microphone), a fragment that's being channeled through that brain and expressing itself as your current personality. When the body shuts down, the ego that goes by your current name may be discarded, that was just your character in the role playing game to begin with - but the totality of conscious energy that was operating the controller will still exist. This world is an amusement park ride and the first rule of admittance is: You must forget what you really are until the game ends, in order to fully commit to your character. As you work through the levels, you'll eventually figure out that its just a game, and begin to regain your memory. You may go through several character roles before you get that advanced.

Now, I don't expect you to believe any of that just because I said it. You owe it to yourself to seek your own answers. The truth is out there. Actually, its in there, but just start looking, you'll figure it out. Start by reading. A lot. And never assume you have ALL the answers, there's always more to learn. Mostly, avoid anyone who's so arrogant that they're absolutely sure they're right and nobody knows any more than they do - those people are always wrong, not to mention unpleasant to be around.

Hope that at least gave you a little insight into some of the things you were pondering and sets you off in a direction where some of your answers lie.

The Truth of the Matter is, GOD is way too big for most folks who are speaking in this thread to wrap around one hemisphere of the brain to the exclusion of the interpreting BRAIN, rather than a synergy WITH THE describing brain.
And yes, that's a loose metaphor still but IT 'describes' the general gist of the problem here, per 'hemispheral' limitations.

Yes for all we know there may be a higher "lifeform" that created us after terra-forming earth.

However, the god of Abraham was was believed to have created the earth in 7 days according to a desert dwelling nomadic people thousands of years ago who (like everyone else at the time) tried to make sense of why we are here and what (if any) purpose was their in existence or in the world.

We know holy books purported to be written by god (i.e. Talmud, Torah, Bible, Quran) are full of man made crap because they make fairly obvious scientific mistakes that to a scientist are cringeworthy i.e. Plants are "made" on the third day of creation before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11

God makes two lights: "the greater light [the sun] to rule the day, and the lesser light [the moon] to rule the night." But the moon is not a light, but only reflects light from the sun. And why, if God made the moon to "rule the night", does it spend half of its time moving through the daytime sky? 1:16

All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created by God. 1:30

In Genesis 1 the entire creation takes 6 days, but the universe is 13.7 billion years old, with new stars constantly being formed. 1:31

God fashions a woman out of one of Adam's ribs.
Because of this story, it was commonly believed (and sometimes it is still said today) that males have one less rib than females. When Vesalius showed in 1543 that the number of ribs was the same in males and females, it created a storm of controversy. 2:19

There are so many of these that it makes me cry why 63% of Americans "believe" in the literal meaning of the bible