Theists: what evidence, if true, would you accept as proof that your god does not exist?

Question

It's a hypothetical.

What would it take for you to conclude that god does not exist?

What would you have to see?
What would have to happen?

Is there *anything at all* that would cause you to lose faith in your god?

Answer 1

This is why science and god are not logically at odds.
Science takes no position one way or another on god because it can't be falsified.

Answer 2

kevbox2006: You're dodging the question, you're pointing out percieved flaws in evolution. If they were valid, they could just as well point to the existence of an Islamic god as a Christian.

They're not valid, though.

1. Fish. You're thinking much too linear. Change can be gradual, for instance some fish can move between puddles in dry season (otherwise, they'd be dead). Others can move longer distances, and have adapted to a partial life on land (again, otherwise, they'd be dead). Voila.

2. Human eye. Wow, that's old news. An incomplete eye is not a useless eye (detecting light, motion and shapes is hardly useless). A computer simulation of a the evolution of the eye from a single light-sensitive cell was done years ago. Every step had to be an improvement. They were quite surprised at how fast the eye evolved.

3. Mathematically impossible. The human being, and its eye, was not thrown together at random. We have evolved, gradually, from previous life forms. Any statistical analogy like that is completely invalid.

Sorry, I guess I like to argue.

Answer 3

That is an excellent question that really made me think.
I am a Christian and have had quite a few experiences that are unexplainable (car accident that I should not have survived and no one can explain why I wasn't even touched)-- and were attributed to miracles.
Its impossible to prove a negative, so I'm not sure there would ever be anything that could disprove His existence to me.
But then, that is also the crux of faith: believing in what cannot be seen.

I'm going to be thinking about his for the rest of the day-- thanks for a great question!

Answer 4

The disappearance of reality and benevolence would be a start, but I cannot see as to how your question has any validity to it.Its kind of like asking what color do you need to paint your car to make it run on electricity.
Faith in God is trusting Him. After responding to the existential experience of God within the heart, I find it hard to convince myself that losing faith is possible....for me
To those who say there is no evidence to support the existence of God, I say you have the wrong idea of what faith is. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. Although the core of evidence is subjective to one's personal experience, God has not left us without evidence to fall for every wind and doctrine that comes along. David Hume, the philosopher that developed the theory of empiricism said that He would only accept that which could be revealed empirically through the sense organs of the body.
Ears ARE sense organs so we DO have the empirical evidence of hearing the word of God and allowing the revelation of it to enter our intellect and deeper into our hearts (the place where our intention and motives reside)
In light of what common sense, revelation and excersizing my mind in accordance to the precepts intended by its creator, I can only conclude that your question has no basis in reality.
What if? WHAT IF? WHAT IF?
People who live by what ifs are intellectually retarded.

Answer 5

I think that's the point of faith-- there's no real evidence to support God to begin with. It's really just a belief in the belief. For people who really believe, it's just about believing, there would only ~ever~ be evidence that suggests God ~does~ exist-- there's already every reason in the universe to believe that God doesn't exist.

Answer 6

Well, just look around you. People depress me and if there really was a god, then he would step in and stop people shooting each other for a dime of weed, getting her 5- and 8-year old to steal and denying their hers, or a 32-year-old sexually assaulting a 13-year-old. And those are just the tip of the iceberg. If god really did "love" us, then he wouldn't let us go through pain. Most (competent) parents would do anything so their child would not feel an ounce of it.

Answer 7

Common Sense

Answer 8

i'm an atheist, and that i study those questions and be conscious an same solutions you do, so i love this question. in the journey that they need us to take on the load of information right here, then what data might want to fulfill them? I heavily doubt if something might want to persuade them that their god would not exist. no matter if we confirmed them a video that documented each little thing that technology asserts, ie, the vast Bang, evolution, and so on, they could nevertheless carry close to their beliefs, providing some nonsense like, oh, see there? the vast Bang became how god created the universe, and so on, advert nauseum. and no matter if, as yet another human being suggested, their god got here right here and informed them that there became no god, it would not artwork, because they could both say that the messenger isn't telling the reality, or they could say, oh, it quite is basically god being modest. lol. there is no longer something that is going to represent data to those irrational human beings. a number of them would come to reject their beliefs on their lonesome, yet i don't believe of something we grant as data might want to do it. sigh, oh properly... lady Morgana

Answer 9

Loaded Question, but I'll take the two points!

In all seriousness, it would take a LOT of evidence to prove God doesn’t exist.

Better question:

If land animals started out as fish, why did the fish come out of the water? Did he develop lungs first, or was he just randomly born without gills? When he DID make it out of the water, did he have a "Mrs. Air-Breathing-Fish" with him? If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be able to make little Air-Breathing-Fish Babies!

Consider this:

If he were born without gills, he would have suffocated. If he were born with lungs, he would have drowned.

It is mathematically impossible for the human eye or ear to have developed by random chance.

Bottom line:

There are more evidences out there that point TO God than otherwise! If anyone can prove God doesn’t exist, I will denounce my faith and do whatever he or she tells me! Why would I do that? Because you can’t prove God doesn’t exist! It’s impossible!

Again…it’s a loaded question, but I’ll take the two points!

Answer 10

non exitence of this world and us would have good proof for the nonexistence of God If this world exist, all the activities on it would go on even when I or any body else die, There must be some one who hold the thing to comtinue to exist and did not died at least since creation of this universe All the best : )

Answer 11

There is nothing that would make me lose faith in God. I don't think we can live without hope. My hope is in the glory of God and this hope is the anchor for my soul.
I don't even want to live if it means being set adrift.