Respectfully: Can you PROVE that God doesn't exist?

Question

Yes I know that the "burden of proof is on proving he does"....maybe.
But you cannot actually prove that God doesn't exist-and still people say that he doesn't.
Shouldn't we be more open-minded and at least leave for a POSSIBILITY of the existance of God at the very least?

Just had to deal with a bee in my bonnet here.

Anti-Christ...good one! Thumbs up. How about doing it factually? I don't think we can.

Santa Parrot-get a life. Santa was real-St. Nicholaus from Germany. He use to visit orphans.

My issue is that people state matter of factly that God doesn't exist. How can they be so bold as to say that as if it were a matter of fact?

Good input. I am starting to understand what y'all are getting at. So I will ask another question.

Answer 1

The question of the ages, still unanswered and unproven . . .

Answer 2

>> Yes I know that the "burden of proof is on proving he does"....maybe.

Cop-out! "Maybe." Pssch. No, that's really how this system of knowledge works. If you would like to assert something is true, you need to prove that it is true. If it was reverse onus, the rest of us would be too busy trying to think of ways of to prove the most ludicrous statements. Here: "There is a pig circling around Alpha Centauri." Now it's YOUR job to prove me wrong. Annnnnnd.... go.

"Maybe." Get a backbone.

>> But you cannot actually prove that God doesn't exist-and still people say that he doesn't.

Right. I can't prove he doesn't exist. You're absolutely right. I can't say, with 100% certainty, that he doesn't exist. Which is why I don't. I say I *lack the belief* in god (which makes me an atheist), and I say he *probably* doesn't exist. I say the philosophy working against the idea of an "intelligent, omnipotent creator" is that fact that such a creature simply existing in the outside realm is even MORE improbable than it is the idea that the universe is here by itself. What's more improbable of 'just appearing': a finite universe, or an infinite god? I can tell you what the mathematics say...

>> Shouldn't we be more open-minded and at least leave for a POSSIBILITY of the existance of God at the very least?

No. Because such a possibility does nothing to help us with the study of our universe. What the hell kind of answer is "God did it"? It's an unsatisfying one, that's what!

Answer 3

This question has been dealt with many times. You should check the question history for some excellent answers. To sum up: "Can you prove I wasn't abducted by aliens?" The burden of proof is on someone making a claim and the more outrageous the claim the heavier that burden is. I can't prove that my neighbor was abducted by aliens if he says so but I'm not going to believe it without proof. Also, If you do choose to entertain the idea of a supernatural being as creator of the world which one do you pick? All of the major religions pretty much require faith and lack verifiable proof, therefore, each has as much probability of being true (or in my mind untrue). Mostly people end up believing what they were told as children. I am open minded in that if any convincing proof of God were to come in I would consider it.

Answer 4

The proof that God, as the religions have explained "him", "It" --does not exist was in the thousand years or so of discovery, then the about 200 years or so of discovery, then about the 100 or 50 years of discovery the mystical primitive superstition believers have ignored, misunderstood or refused to even try to understand.
The religions are all proved wrong and foolish drivel from Bronze age men.
God is another story, there very well may be some sort of "creator" but you mystical story tellers have to start keeping up with modern times and evidence if you want to make sense.

Answer 5

Why stop there? Why shouldn't we leave open a POSSIBLITY for the existence of unicorns, too? What about fairies? Giants? Leprechauns? Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?

And, hell, why stop at Yahweh? Why not leave open the possibility for Allah, Zeus, Brahma, and all the other thousands of gods that other people worship all around the world now and throughout history?

If you don't believe in any of those things, then why not? According to your logic, you can't prove that those things don't exist either, so how could you have possibly rejected them?

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THAT'S your best answer? Hahaha... ohhh man...

I'll say this again: You have no doubt rejected billions of other things, too. How can you be so bold as to say that they don't exist? Why single out God among all the other things that can't be disproven out there?

Answer 6

It is a false argument that you must prove that something does not exist. I don't have to prove fairies, elves, pixies and such don't exist for people to accept I don't believe in them, even when there are people that do, based on their wanting them to exist and their faith that they exist. There is no need to prove the non existence of some great spirit in the sky. All the proof, every last bit is laid on someone to prove it does. All the arguments that believers lay on non-believers is fallacious, full of holes, and ultimately based on one or more scriptures that archeology and history have demonstrated to be forged, edited, re-written, copied, combined, excluded, re-included, and produced many years after the events they purport to describe.

I have an open mind, its just not so open my brains fall out.

Answer 7

If I said there was no possibility then I would be saying that I wouldn't believe even if I was presented with significant concrete evidence. That's not the case and that's not what atheism and skepticism are about. Since there is no evidence however, I will not believe but I keep an open mind to any objective evidence. With your rationale we should believe in every silly thing we can think of because we haven't "disproven" it.

Answer 8

How can you not know that no one cannot not disprove the nonexistence of a non-entity?

Are you gay? Can you prove you're not gay? Just because you don't actively date and screw others of the same sex, it doesn't prove you're not gay! Come on, can't you be open minded and at least believe the POSSIBILITY that you're a total flaming homo?

Or do you simply KNOW that you're not gay without needing others to prove it to you? Or, better yet, are you in denial like Ted Haggard?

Answer 9

You're right, I can't prove that he doesn't exist. But I've never seen any evidence to show that he was there, either. I'm just applying the same standard that I would to anything else someone asked me to believe.

Answer 10

Total lack of evidence = proof that something doesn't exist.

If there isn't anything to support it, the only reasonable conclusion is that it was just made up by someone.

No that doesn't totally preclude it, but I would be no less surprised if I were presented with evidence of Zeus.

Answer 11

When u r there god does not exist, when ur not there only god exist. Whatever u see is not God. But its a form created out of God. When one sees it with gross eyes its not there, when one sees it with inner eye its everywhere.