A great many things can not be conclusively proved by logic although evidence for them may be proferred and considered. This is particularly true of the evidence for God.

It is up to the questioner to choose whether or not to believe the evidence; whether or not to accept the conclusion towards which it leads i.e. that God is - and is thus the Source of all that exists; and above all, whether or not such a monumental acceptance is to be followed by seeking consistently to know Him, to be guided by Him, and to labour in partnership with Him to heal the cosmos of which He is the Author.

Because God is so infinitely greater than any conception of Him may be, I find that it is quite reasonable to be agnostic; but not knowing all - or even the tiniest bit of all there is to know about Him - does not preclude knowing HIM, gratefully acknowledging what one does know and building and orienting one's life according to that knowledge.

To choose to be an atheist is, by the way, also a choice of faith: just as one can never find conclusive evidence for His being - because one must always choose, so also one can not find conclusive evidence for His NOT being. So one chooses.

It seems much more consistent with our daily experience of life, in which there is always some cause or source for things we see and experience, to choose to accept that there is a Source and Cause for all that is, i.e. God, however one may choose to call Him/Her/It/Them, than to say it all starts from nothing, is ordered by nothing, and goes nowhere.

Such a choice does not seem to be directed by reason, but by prejudice - perhaps due to some disappointment about how things go, perhaps due to unanswered prayer, perhaps due to having been wounded by some person who professed faith and acted or spoke in a way that was not consistent with that faith.

Such, at any rate, are my thoughts on the subject. I am not, of course, the Orthodox Church and certainly not the best spokesman for her.

But I am a fellow-seeker who, like C. S. Lewis, has often been "surprised by joy". And found that I am loved and also, gratefully, found that it is possible and reasonable to love in return.