Respectful question for theists, can you prove air exists.?

Question

This question is asked of atheists on here about 8 times a day, so I wanted to just give theists a change to be a part of the solution.

So I await your intelligent responses. I know its a stupid question, but again, theists ask this approxametely 8 times a day, so why not share it with the theists I figure.

sorry, chance, I know how you good righteous theists like to point out my spelling mistakes,

Answer 1

Two words - mercury barometer.

Answer 2

I'm not a theist, but I can answer your question. Yes, we can prove that air exists.

Although air cannot be seen, we can detect it with the other senses. We can obviously smell air and detect differences in the odor depending on the air's composition. We can feel air when it moves. (Note: I'm talking about tactile stimulation of the skin, not an emotion.) We can hear air when it moves over our eardrums.

Besides personal experience, air has certain physical properties that can be measured consistently. Air has mass, temperature, volume, speed, direction, and pressure. These properties also consistently conform to particular rules. For instance, if I take volume of air and increase its temperature, I know that the pressure it exerts on it's container will increase. If I know the exact volume and the exact temperature change, I can accurately predict the change in pressure.

For all of these reasons, we can state that air exists with a very high degree of certainty.

Answer 3

Actually, I can.

As a Christian, I admit that this is a stupid comparison.

1) Air has weight (put an empty balloon and an inflated one on either side of a balance scale and see what happens).

2) Air has pressure (inflated balloon vs the limp one again).

3) Stick your head under water and see how long you can live w/o air.

And so on. I think that it is a stronger argument to say that God must exist because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Obviously the universe had a beginning, or a first cause, because it is decaying into disorder and an eventual heat death. That raises the question of where did the order of the universe come from in the first place? On the other hand, asking who made God is a non-starter because God exists outside of time (think of eternity as an endless loop that keeps repeating itself). According to Einstein, time seems to be bound to things like matter and space (space-time). God exists outside of space, so God exists outside of time. God was not created, because God literally has no beginning (without "time", words like "beginning" and "ending" have no meaning).

Answer 4

First, I'd like to point out that there is a BIG difference between a person who is theist and a person who is an atheist. Air contains oxygen (& other elements), we humans need oxygen to survive, therefore this is the only proof I can come up with on a moments notice that makes any sense. We breath, we survive, therefore there is air because it supports our human system. No air=no life.

Answer 5

a simple answer is get into a decompresion chamber remove all the air without air you cant breath but at least you will have proved 2 things air exists and so does a vacume
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME

Answer 6

I personaly can not... But as all science is from God and thus all science is good... I am sure that there is ample scientific evidence that air dose indeed exist... as far as I am concerned, as long as I am still bereathing, I will continue to believe, by FAITH, that air dose indeed exist.... From a Christian Faith pov at least.

Answer 7

One can measure its pressure, one can measure the mass of a specific volume of it, one can break it down into its chemical components and measure their masses, partial pressures, and chemical reactivity, one can bubble it through a liquid and measure its flow rate, along with a zillion other ways to prove its existence by MEASUREMENTS.

Reference a single repeatable measurement that proves the existence of a deity.

Answer 8

I can perceive air and I can perceive the Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

Actually, yeah, there are millions and millions of molecules that make up air, and it has been proven. So, try again.

Answer 10

are you alive? are you breathing? there's your answer