Athiests-How can you prove that God does not exist?

Question

People always want proof that God does exist I was wondering how you could convince me that he doesn't? Be serious please. I am always serious when it's turned around I think I deserve the same respect as far as this question goes. thank you

Answer 1

I am not Athiest, but that doesn't matter.

You cannot prove that God doesn't exist. But according to the free will aspect, we all have the choice.

But, you also cannot prove that he does exist either. So there's obviously a huge contradiction there.

Answer 2

I can't. But I can demonstrate the thinking that causes people to believe in god, and when you realize why it happens, and how silly it is, you may stop believing, and then you'll have your proof.

I can't prove that 500 pound block of cheese isn't going to fall out of the sky and crush you tomorrow morning. Someone could claim this will happen. A crazy religious person could claim this is a message from the cheese god that the earth is about to be destroyed. Will you believe it?

No. It sounds ridiculous right? Will you stay inside your house tomorrow, hiding from the cheese? Of course you won't. You find the statement ridiculous, and baseless. There's absolutely no compelling reason to believe it will happen. But what if, on tomorrow nights news, you saw stories of hundreds of people who got hit by 500 pound blocks of cheese when they went to work in the morning? You'd think real hard and fast about the possibility of a there being a cheese god.

This is exactly what happened to primitive people thousands of years ago. Throughout history, strange things have always happened, and the multitudes are easily frightened. They couldn't understand why, but in every group there are always a few clever, level-headed people who may not understand, but are less inclined to believe in the supernatural. These people are always present, and ready to exploit the fear, ignorance and gullibility of the common man for money and power. They come up with explanations for thunder, lighting, rain, wars, the seasons, the sun, people who drown at sea, people who are born deformed, sickness, death, you name it. Anything that can elicit fear can be manipulated and exploited to control man.

That is where gods and religion come from.

There are basically three big, troubling things left that man fears and doesn't understand...

1) Where the universe/existence came from?
2) Why we are here / what is life for?
3) What happens when we die?

As long as these questions remain unanswered, people will believe in a god. It's the only way our brains can reconcile things like infinity, time, omnipotence and so on. "I don't know" simply isn't satisfying enough for the average person.

Simply put, the concepts of religion and god are the attempts by man to largely reconcile that he is not master of his own destiny. He creates elaborate, supernatural mythologies, and then empowers the characters within to have dominion over everything. It is through prayer and sacrifice to these characters that he hopes to appease them, and thus exercise some control over his destiny.

It is all an illusion. When the unknown becomes known, fear vanishes. Knowledge eliminates the need for the supernatural. This is why we do not pray for water to come out of the shower head each morning, or for our car to turn when we turn the wheel. When we understand how and why things work, we do not assign a supernatural cause. Someday we will understand the things we don't and we will no longer need the explanation called god.

Does this help?

Answer 3

Theologian Hans Kung, in a huge book entitled Does God Exist?, examined the question in excruciating detail, and concluded that it is not possible by logic or evidence to prove either that god does or does not exist. I agree. The reason for choosing to believe that god does not exist is that it is provably useless to believe otherwise.

Answer 4

Just read Professor Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion
It makes many very good arguments against the likelyhood that a being capable of creating us could exist and that even if it did it would not be so fickle and petulant as the old testament god is.

http://richarddawkins.net/home
the first chapter is on-line free...

Answer 5

NO ONE OR NOTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN PROVE THAT HE DOES OR DOES NOT EXIST.

everything in the bible,everything in these recently published books are man-made and fiction. there is not enough proof that there is a god,or that there is none. no proof if he really existed and if he did,existed as a god or as a mortal.

everyone can present you proofs and still you might not believe them. because it comes down to what you believe. no one can convince you but yourself. i just suggest that you dont believe in everything that you read or hear. set your beliefs on your experiences. as they say:"the mind believes what it wants to believe"

Answer 6

Why does a Christian ask this every single night without fail?

Science has neither proven nor disproven any god. What science does is ask for proof. Until proof is given, something does not exist. Thats the way science works.

Answer 7

I am not an atheist. But one neither prove that God does or does not exist. God in my spiritualist mindset is far beyond that capacity. This is the principle of faith, faith is beliving without seeing. We may have faith that God does exist, but this faith alone neither makes the reality of it true or false. It becomes true through our interpretation and personal belief systems. God exists, because He is an impossibility. But if one believes not in the existence of God, he is using reason without faith to justify the principle, or at the least he is replacing his faith with his faith in something that is obviously possible rather than impossible, and this is not truly faith at all, for in fact all of us are scientifically proven impossibilites.

Answer 8

So you require the same burden of proof that something doesn't exist as for something that does exist? Are you trying to make Christians look like fools?

Answer 9

By proving that there is no proof that God does exist.

Answer 10

If you say something exists, you have to provide evidence and proof. If you say something does not exist, you have to ask others if they agree with you. If they don't, it's their job to prove whatever they think exists!

You cannot prove a negative, i.e. you cannot prove what does not require proof.

If I say that I did not see an elephant flying, what should I have to prove?