Atheists, do you have any evidence that there is no GOD and that the universe wasn't created by one?

Question

Please only use evidence that would hold up in a court of law...

john h, you have avoided the question quite well.. you obviously have to much universe between your ears to know anything...

Answer 1

Ask some more, I love to see them wiggle . . .

Testimonial evidence is admissible in a court of law. There's plenty of eye-witness accounts in the Bible of those who experienced God. Heck there's alot of people alive today who have experienced God.

C.S. Lewis wrote a book designed to demonstrate solely from logic that God exists. It's called "Mere Christianity". It's a good read.

Evolution cannot be demonstrated from logic. It's a belief system. As a matter of fact, it encorporates numerous illogical premises. Evolution requires that today's established laws of physics were different billions of years ago, that everything we know about genetics didn't apply (how else do you get spontaneious generation) etc.

Atheists don't like to regard God in their knowledge, but in the final analysis, they're not deep thinkers, because if they were, it would be unavoidable.
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Answer 2

No, i have no evidence that there IS a god.

I was told when i was little that God made the world. I've been told ever since that God is real. All these claims have one thing in common: i was asked to take someone's word that there is a god, and someone's word that scripture (Bible, Tanakh, Bible with deuterocanonical writings, Qu'ran, Veda, Dianetics, Divine Principle, Mormon, whatever) was inspired by this entity.

And now the people who want me to take their word for something WITH NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER want ME to give THEM evidence that they are wrong? Tell you what, hows about you show me some evidence that there IS a god that would hold up in a court of law, then we'll talk.

Sorry man, i spent far too long trying to find this god entity that somebody else told me about. I'm not about to waste my time trying to disprove something that ain't there.

Answer 3

You cant prove there is no God. What you can do is explain how it is possible that God may not exist as well as disproving specific factual claims made by the bible and other religions. If i was lawyer charged with proving here is no God, I would try to prove how God is not neccasery, I think this is as close as you can get.

However I think this is pretty good. If one can prove conclusively that many aspects of the bible are flase as well as aspects of other religions, demonstrate that with a large sample of people that praying dos not work, that bad things happen to good people at the same rate as bad people, and that many so called miracles can be explained very easily through probability and statistics I think you can prove that at very least that it is unlikely that there is a god.

Answer 4

*sigh* How many times does this dead horse have to be beaten? This question has been covered to death.

1) The burden of proof lies with the affirmative proponent of a proposition. I.e., those claiming that God exists bear the burden of presenting affirmative, verifiable empirical evidence that he does.

It's not the other way around, but naturally Christians love to twist the rules.

2) Not believing that there is a God is NOT the same as affirmatively believing that there is no God. Most atheists simply do not believe that there is a God; therefore they don't have to prove anything or present any kind of evidence whatsoever, because they're not making any assertions one way or another. They're simply saying "I do not accept the affirmative proposition that God exists".

Even for those atheists who DO believe that there is no God, the burden of proof still lies with the affirmative proponents declaring that there IS a God.

Answer 5

Not again...

you really like this "hold up in a court of law" thing, don't you?

And yet, you somehow expect detailed answers that you probably wouldn't understand without an extensive science background explained in laymans terms in 1500 letters or less on some web forum.

You are not going to find the answer you want on here. If you want to find the real answer, go back to school and study chemistry, biology, anthropology, archaeology, and physics.

Answer 6

~~~ wordman,,,, I understand, you present The Hypothetical, you make The Rules,,, but ponder this answer which would hold up in court on Boston Legal,,,,"We can no more present "evidence" of a non-existent "GOD" anymore than you can prove the Non-existence of an Alien Civilization more than 100 galaxies away from ours or next door,,,, or even the non-existence of gods you don't believe in.

Answer 7

No, we can't. However, it is irrational to use backwards reasoning. You cannot assume something exists and then try to disprove it's existence. It is universally accepted that evidence of something's existence is present prior to establishing that it exists. I don't understand why scientific reasoning is thrown out when it comes to God and religion. We all reap the benefits of science in our every day lives. However, it is often discarded when we try to apply it to questions about our own existence. It just doesn't make sense.

Answer 8

I think that the real question here is, Do you have any evidence at all, or any basis whatsoever in believing that there is some omnipotent supernatural being somewhere out the cosmos?

Didn't think so...

How can you believe in something so utterly and completely unbelievable, and so obviously fake? There are just too many people out there who are blinded by religion. Its disgusting...

Answer 9

Well, it is not a question of proving that God does not exist, but that it is a hypothesis we do not need anymore.

The hypothesis of a God was necessary when we had not a good way to explain natural phenomena. Then, a bad explanation was better than none.

Answer 10

I would use "God" himself as the evidence that He doesn't exist. I would demand that He be subpoenaed. When He can't be subpoenaed, and "God's" lawyer can't even tell us where to find Him, or how to contact Him, then maybe I'd subpoena an angel, to testify as to His existence. (They ARE supposed to be His messengers, right?) When THEY didn't show up, and the lawyer can't even tell us where to find them or how to contact them, then we would say a prayer making a simple request in the courtroom. After all, in the Bible, Jesus Himself says "I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son. If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it." When that, too, doesn't "pan out", we will win unanimously. God's lawyers will just sit there looking like darned fools.