Atheist is not having faith based on knowledge?

Question

So can you prove to me that there is no God?
You must have knowledge plese tell me where did any of the matter that we see today come from? Was it always around eternally? I thought scientists calculated 14 billion years, so if that is not eternaty then where does it come from?

Answer 1

150 years ago, we didn't know about bacteria. No clue. It wasn't understood until Louis Pasteur determined that germs caused disease.

You are asking the same questions that scientists ask. What causes each individual element of the universe to come forth from other elements? You have, however, asked this in the Religion & Spirituality section, where we are mostly humanities majors, not biologists or physicists. Would you come to R&S to find out what opus number was Mozart's 40th Symphony? I think not. You're asking us to play to our weakness. Quite frankly, you're being unfair.

So let me suggest two things:

1. If you are serious about wanting to know the current evidence-based understanding on the origins of the universe and on evolutionary theory, there are excellent descriptions found at http://www.talkorigins.org .

2. Consider that you are proposing (subtly) that anything that is not explained is a place for God to be discovered. This is commonly referred to in ontology as "the god of the gaps" theory. It typically assigns God to any blank space that science has not yet reached useful conclusions. Remember what I said about disease? Before bacteria were discovered, it was assumed God was punishing the ill, or that they were demon possessed, or some other supernatural phenomenon caused sickness. This is the same god of the gaps.

Science never assumes, and should never assume, anything is supernatural. The purpose of science is to discover through measured observation, testing, and repetition what natural causes lead to our natural world. If you impose a statement "God caused it," then this stops the search for knowledge, because God is ultimately unknowable. This is the reason that the "god of the gaps" theory is discounted among learned ontological academicians, and is ignored by science.

Answer 2

Neither I, nor anyone else can prove that there is a god, or that there is not. It provably follows from this that belief in god is useless: it can predict nothing. Scientists have good evidence to believe that the universe began some 14 billion years ago; the "cause" of this, if there was such a thing, is beyond present scientific knowledge and may always be so. But scientific knowledge explains well most of the development of the universe since that time, and it is not necessary (and provably useless) to suppose that a god had anything to do with it.

Answer 3

Again with the Big Bang argument!

For the one millionth time, where did God come from? If conservation of energy is unbreakable, how did God create stuff? How did God organize himself out of nothing by chance? You see, both belief systems fall flat on their faces when it comes to questions about what preceded the universe...

Answer 4

"Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it." Former minister Dan Barker

Answer 5

I don't have to prove that God does not exist. If you're the one claiming that God exists, the burden of evidence is upon you to prove it.

Answer 6

I can't. But I also cannot believe in something with no real proof.

Answer 7

No, I can't prove there is no God.

I also can't prove that there isn't a pink dingo in the trunk of my car at this very moment.

But trust me..... I'm very very very very very certain that there isn't.

Answer 8

God does not exist. the burden of proof is on you. Where is your proof

Answer 9

Who made god smart @rse

Answer 10

Gap worship isn't really all that convincing, you know.