You probably have evidence that your chair won't collapse on you. Hence, it is rational.
Here are 4 rational reasons to believe in God.
1) The amount of order and complexity in the universe. The chances of it happening by chance are absurdly small.
2) We are so far the only intelligent life in the universe. This could happen by random chance but the chances of that are also small
3) Fine tuned universe, the universe appears fine tuned for th emmergence of life. We are in just the right position in the cosmos for complex life to evolve. It is not irrational to believe that this was the result of Design.
4) Moral laws appear to be discovered, not invented. A theistic approach is the better explanation for immaterial and non-man-made moral law.
These of course are not perfect and you will probably bring up reasons why you think they are wrong. But they are rational reasons to believe in God.
1) This makes no sense. What exactly makes order and complexity by chance such an unlikely proposition? It is absurd to try to put a probability on something like that, because we have never seen an alternative. It's simply the way things developed. The universe is governed by physical laws and those laws shape the complexity we see in the universe.
2) Again, it makes no sense. We are "so far" the only intelligent life in the universe? No. We are simply the only intelligent life in the universe that we know to exist. There is a huge difference between the two statements. Given the chain of events necessary to make life, and the vast distances between stars, this is in no way anything unusual. It does not even suggest that intelligent life does not exist elsewhere in the universe.
3) Yes, it is. There is a lack of real argument in this statement, hence a lack of logic. First of all, it pretty much restates your first "rational" reason to believe in God (simply adding the element of life to the mix, but it's exactly the same argument), and second of all, there's absolutely no reason to believe that such elements don't exist elsewhere in the universe (in fact, you love probabilities as you've brought up the absurdly small probability that there would be order in the universe without a Creator; there is actually an absurdly high probability that the conditions necessary for life do, in fact, exist in many places in the universe, and thus intelligent life elsewhere is actually highly likely). It's irrational because there's no reason to believe there is a reason for life. Your premise is based on the assumption that life must have a purpose, and there's no reason that this should be the case. It's a wild leap.
4) ROFL. Moral laws are nothing but human constructs. They are not discovered, they are invented. You have it backwards. Even if you could argue that there were some "master" moral laws that by rights should govern everybody, they would be based on the extremely human concept of empathy. You've gotta be kidding.
There's nothing rational about any of your points. In fact, I think they're all wild speculation.
(Sigh)...Oh Yattering will you stop Chattering (nevermind the pun).
1. As usual you have
completely missed the point (I did not imply that all atheists were ignorant of the bible just some and you are not one of them). I was talking about the laws which are complex. I am saying that it is rational to believe in God because such complexity would not have risen completely form chaos necessarily (that is not how reality works). To explain it Another way, The laws of the universe had to have been made with logic not chaotic randomness. If they were God is a logical candidate for the originator of these laws.
2. I was not saying life period couldn't develop elsewhere in the universe. I was talking about
Intelligent Life and when I said we are the only intelligent life so far I meant the only
Discovered Intelligent life and therefore the
only Intelligent life.
3. I see I'll have to simplify this part,
1) We are the only intelligent life in the universe
2) We are in just the right location for Intelligent life to develop (this doesn't happen normally).
3) We have not proven the existence of any other planetary civilizations. They probably do not exist
4) A large amount of coincidences had to occur in order for us to reach this point
-- A star with all ninety-two elements
-- A planet with the right mass, atmospheric composition and the right chemicals
-- A main sequence star with a llong enaugh lifetime fopr intelligent life to be fostered
-- An primordial atmosphere which would not kill early life
-- Etc., etc., etc. (there are over actually over a hundred)
4. I did not say it was culturally universal, I said it was uninvented. We all have an innate sense of right and wrong, you do and I do, this is not just because of our cultural surroundings because it is true in other cultures.
This is not to say all cutlures are the same or that all religions teach the same things, or to say that everyone has the same values, it is to for some extra-rational reason, you know if something is right or wrong. Since you are a materialist, this is how I'll put it, Our sense of morallity appears to be naturally evolved whithin us.
Anf my argumen either way is that these moral laws only make sense if you take a theistic approach. Before you respond look at this assuming God exists.