How can you say "There is No God?"?

Question

I am getting tired of seeing this from people here who say they believe only in science. The blanket statement that "there is no God" completely disregards science, and proclaims incredible arrogance.
Example: What if I were to state: "There is no continent of Antarctica." Of course it would be easy to prove me wrong, since people have been to Antarctica, seen it, and photographed it. There is empirical evidence to prove that the continent exists.

Now, what if I were to state: "There is no life beyond our planet." The athiests here would call me an idiot, because I would have to have a detailed knowledge of all the solar systems in all the galaxies in the universe in order to be sure that my statement is true. Of course I do not have this knowledge, and neither do you. So we can only say, I BELIEVE there is no life on any other planets because it is improbable, etc.

Similarily, how do you KNOW there is no God? No, you BELIEVE that. You do not have all knowledge.

Answer 1

I agree. I'm in regular contact with the Creator of the universe. Right there? You know what he just told me? Hold on, let me listen to more.

He says that people who claim to be in contact with the Creator of the universe are not arrogant at all.

Answer 2

There's no evidence of a god. No rational reason why anyone should believe in a god. We have wild and ridiculous Fairy Tales written two thousand years ago by primitives to explain the start of the world. That's not evidence.

There is evidence of the antarctica. There is a probability that there may be life elsewhere. The sheer vastness of the universe suggests that if it happened once, it could happen again. There's no proof of it, however. But there is a rational reason why you may choose to believe it. The same can't be said of gods.

Answer 3

How can you say there is a God and expect everyone to agree?

Mind you I'm a theist myself and I do believe in Gods (note that's plural), but I also believe in science. My view of Gods is vastly different from the Christian perception of an invisible man in the sky and that God is external.

Why does it bother you people so much that they don't have a deity? There is no law that says they have to believe in our deities. The reason they question Christians is because some Christians want to throw away science in favor of going back to the middle ages.

BTW - mathematically it is probable that there is life on other planets. :)

Answer 4

You can't say there isn't a Zeus, can you? Can you say there isn't an Isis? How about no Mt. Olympus? Can you see where we're coming from? Until God gets off his lazy @ss and makes the effort to prove to us that he exists, we're going to say that he doesn't. As powerful as Christians say he is, it should take much effort on his part to prove his existence. And the idea that we're supposed to have blind faith is either a very sadistic joke on his part or a naive way for followers to hang onto something they can't believe in any other way. Sorry, but the burden of proof is on you, not us. Prove us wrong.

Answer 5

If you tell me that you have a live purple hedgehog tree, I will say, "You do not." Some claims are so absurd that they can be rejected right out of hand. I know there is no God, in the same way that I know that my pet bunny here isn't going to fly out the window on invisible wings, in the same way that I know that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy do not exist, in the same way that I know that nobody has ever offered a single scrap of evidence in support of the claim that God exists.

Answer 6

Simple. Free will is trivially easy to disprove via the Turing-Church Thesis.

This leaves two choices -- no deity, or a deity that created self-aware beings but did not give them free will. Since the latter of the two would be entirely illogical (what could it serve a deity to create such a system?), the former must be true.

I know for a fact that there is no deity of any kind.

Answer 7

Your argument simply begs the question. In effect, you are saying "I contend that god exists. You can't prove that god doesn't exist, therefore god exists".

Take it out of a religious context and look at the question: Let's say that I contend that invisible fire-breathing dragons exist...there's no reason for you to believe that, and barring some fairly concrete evidence on my part, you would be completely correct in saying that "fire breathing dragons do not exist".
By your definition, we can't say anything for certain, unless we have complete knowledge of everything in the universe.
Obviously, this is an unrealistic and unattainable point of view.

Answer 8

I'm an agnostic, so I don't cling to either absolute. As a result, I'm not apt to be offended by either position.

There's a marvelous book about belief and how it works. It's called "Why We Believe What We Believe," by Andrew Newberg.

Reading it has made me much more inclined to treat theist and atheist as fellow humans with beliefs of their own, rather than members of an armed campt that resists the clear reasoning of whatever the other armed camp happens to believe.

Answer 9

Of course it depends on how one defines the word "God". Many people define God as having contradictory qualities. People who deny gods using those definitions are just recognizing that the qualities contradict each other. It is similar to if I were to say there is "No Square Circle", and I certainly do not have to have all knowledge to claim there is no square circle.

Answer 10

You're wrong. As far as anyone knows, there is no life beyond our planet. That is an accurate statement. There is no proof of life anywhere else. There is no proof of god either. I don't have to prove there isn't one. You cannot prove something doesn't exist.

Answer 11

There is a god, a Wiccan god, and there is also a Goddess, and deities, and ect.

But that's just my belief, dude, if you believe there is a God believe it, just because others might say there isn't a God doesn't make it true, believe what you want to believe, beliefs never hurt anyone, if you want to know more of my personal opinion contact me:

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