Athiests: You can not disprove god's existence. Arent you agnostic at best?

Answer 1

I cannot disprove the existence of any god, you're right. I cannot disprove Yahweh and you cannot disprove Quetzalcoatl.

Are you agnostic towards the existence of Quetzalcoatl?

I didn't think so.

We are BOTH atheists. I just go one god further.

Answer 2

I can't disprove the possibility that my entire life has been a hallucination. But I believe that it hasn't been, and I believe it with as much certainty as I can possibly believe anything. The same is true of my atheism, I can't technically disprove that a god may exist, but I'm certain one doesn't. That may sound a bit stupid, but only because you had to get all pedantic and make a distinction between proof and belief. Technically the only thing you can prove is your own existence (based on your ability to think) so if you believe anything else, then you should understand how I can believe that there is no god.

Answer 3

No I cannot disprove the existence God anymore than I can disprove the existence of the Easter Bunny.

Does that make me an Easter Bunny agnostic?

Answer 4

There is a fine line here. An atheist does not claim to prove that god does not exist: he simply finds no evidence to support the notion that god does exist, and therefore claims the negative. The agnostic simply claims that the matter is unknown and unknowable, so makes no claim either way.

Answer 5

But by your argument, that would make theists agnostic too, because thay cannot prove God's existence either!
(Strong personal conviction or subjective experience is NOT proof, whatever else it might be.)

Outside of formal mathematics and logic, little is provable.
(And Godel's incompleteness theorum disturbs even that!)

But surely Bertrand Russell was (very likely) right:
"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."
For practical purposes, that's what most of us say we are sure of. Even if we retain acknowledgement of that technical possibility of being wrong. Christians and Atheists alike.

Answer 6

But you can not prove he DOES exist. If someone is not compelled to have have faith in something as unprovable as the existence of God, then how can they be agnostic? From what I understand, an agnostic believes there MIGHT be a God. Atheists are convinced there isn't one and are not compelled to believe otherwise.

Answer 7

You seem to forget it it the theists who make the claim that God exists--whether that God be ALLAH--or Krishna --or Zeus--or any other God--in other words---if I make a claim that pink elephants fly around inside my house at night---would you believe it??--or would you want some sort of proof?? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. A real atheist does not claim there is no God---just that there is no proof!--Oh---& by the way---all humans are agnostic--simply because you can't "know" the unknowable.

Answer 8

No. Proof one way or the other doesn't make you who you are, you know that.

An agnostic, as far as I know, generally leaves it open to a *maybe*, while I as an atheist do not have a maybe. I do not believe in gods in any sense, i find the concept ridiculous.

Answer 9

Read some other threads like this. As has been said time and time again. You can NOT prove a negative. It is impossible to prove the NON-existence of something. Atheists don't need to prove anything.

Answer 10

Atheists have nothing to prove. If you don't believe in something, you don't have to waste your time trying to disprove the existence of something that you don't believe exists - that is just stupid and pointless. I don't believe in Santa, there is no need to prove his non-existence.