Can anyone prove that God does not exist?

Question

Some are always asking people of faith to prove God exists. Can anyone prove He doesn't exist? And, can anyone prove that Jesus Christ is not His Son? Can anyone prove that Christ was not resurrected from the dead? Peace.

Answer 1

No, they can't

Just read all these bitter and angry replies.

Answer 2

Perhaps you should take even the most basic science or logic class.

Since I know you won't here is lesson one for beginners

YOU CANNOT DISPROVE A NEGATIVE - YOU CANNOT PROVE ANYTHING OR ANYONE DOES NOT EXIST

Example - Prove to me Homer Simpson does NOT exist

If you can do that I will believe your god exists and I will send you one thousand dollars

Deal?

Do you understand now that you cannot disprove a negative? I know it's deep stuff, but anyone with a third grade level of education should get it

If you still cannot grasp that simple concept, anyone who has to live with you has my sympathy

Answer 3

You cannot prove a negative.

However, I can provide evidence showing that the tenets of Jesus and his resurrection were based on a different belief system from 1,500 years earlier in the same area.

I can also point out how the Bible has been altered and mistranslated to change people's perceptions.

I can also point out that there is no more evidence for your religion than there is any other belief system.


But somehow, I think you'd ignore the evidence that refutes your religion. It's a fallacy people have.

Answer 4

No. God cannot be disproved. Any theory that a person works up to disprove God will always be failable. People have been revising the theory of evolution for years, so that's not usable, and we don't even know half the stuff about how the world formed yet.

People are still conjecturing about how, where, when Christ died, and there are dozens of explanations about whether or not He rose again, and how He could have been stolen away, and about where he was buried, etc, etc. No proof. No real good evidence.

Can anyone prove that Jesus Christ is not God's son? If they can prove it from the Bible, I will believe. If they cannot, I will dismiss their wordly, failable wisdom and leave it at that.

Answer 5

There too many hard to believe and convoluted elements in the JC story.

It is a very odd story that no other culture has come up with anything close to. Asian, African, Native American religions have nothing like a Jesus character in their stories.

Why has Jesus left nothing of himself, no personal writings, hair samples, nail clippings, clothing, miraculous food? If he was so revered, it would be nice if a follower had kept something, like an autograph signature of Jesus to examine. No "Jesus sat here" chairs. If he was so powerful he could of burned his name or other sign that he was here in the moon or in a mountain for all to see and know 'Jesus was Here'.

Before JC, OTgod was an angry war god of genocides and plagues. Why would god suddenly want to forgive humanity, and why at that particular time did we suddenly deserve to be forgiven? What is god's interest in humanity anyway? God wants to be glorified by humans at the threat of eternal punishment, does not make sense for all loving, all powerful god. Does he have an addiction to souls to feed? Maybe he fatten souls up, then consumes them. What does he get out of human glorification and adoration? It makes him sound limited and flawed. If he is loving and offering life everlasting as a reward for believers, why is the punishment of Hell necessary? I don't threaten someone I want to help by demanding they either take my money or I'll torture them forever. Where is free will in that?

Why didn't god wait for the modern age to send or resend JC, when he could personally communicate his message and demonstrate miracles proving his identity, personally answer tough questions to the skeptical philosophers, to world leaders, to scientists, to leaders of misguided religions. His words would be permanently, without distortion or mistranslation, be recorded as video, audio and written. But instead he works through unreliable, suspect, sinful, flawed human agents. Where is his infinite power?

As it is, compared to other god stories, it is pretty high on the incredulity scale. So barring stronger proof, JC version of god must be considered less plausible than some others. An impersonal pantheist or deist god are simpler and more logical model of god, easier to believe and more consistent and more comforting than a perfect, hands-on, fickle, flip-flopping god.

Answer 6

from your question i guess you have faith if not you would have ask "Can anyone prove that God does exist?" and the capital letter "G" show that you are a believer

if that is the case why not hang on to your faith after all "Happy are those who have not seem and yet believe"

Answer 7

Nobody can prove he does exist or doesn't. They can just have their opinions and beliefs. You could prove God does exist if he appeared before us.

But to prove he doesn't exist, how are you supposed to get proof of something that doesn't exist? Because if it doesn't exist, it's not there. And if something's not there, there's no proof. (that's a bit complicated)

Answer 8

Can you prove that god exists? And don't give me bible crap, give me scientific facts! Evidence, not a page from a book.

Can you prove that Jesus rose from the dead? And I repeat, DO NOT GIVE ME BIBLE CRAP!

And if he DID rise from the dead, then doesn't it seem quite silly to worship a zombie? And in case you don't get what I'm saying by worshiping a zombie, here is a translation:

Zombie: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force

And since "God" is supernatural, and Jesus was supposedly brought back by him or by god's power or whatever, than he was brought back to life by A SUPERNATURAL FORCE!

Answer 9

It's a weird question. If I could sit here and make God appear and heal millions then everyone would believe and that would be that. Remember the whole Faith thing? It's like dealing with 5 year olds. You tell them that they may get a toy if they behave. If you tell them that they will definitely get that toy then they will all behave. Just believing they "may" get that toy just by doing the right thing should be incentive enough. You shouldn't have to show them the prize and barter with them. So back to what I was saying, It's up to them to decide what they believe in, but I tell you one thing. I'd sure hate to be the ones to say "screw the prize because I don't feel like working for it" only to find out that it was even better than I'd ever imagined.

Answer 10

How can you prove something doesn't exist? You can only prove that something does exist.

Answer 11

1: Science gives us a way to distinguish between good ideas and bad ideas - i.e. to show which explanation is the most consistent with observable reality. Science shows us that great complexity does not just arise spontaneously. It is inconceivable that even the simplest bacterium could exist without something being responsible for the complexity of its structure, its biochemistry and so on. It would take the lifetimes of a billion universes for it to appear spontaneously, by pure chance - in fact it is probably safe to say that it simply could never happen. This goes all the more for human beings. It's surely no coincidence that the only thing that we regard as truly intelligent - the human brain - is also the most complex thing in the known universe. Intelligence requires enormous complexity, far beyond anything that could conceivably exist without something being responsible for its existence. By the same reasoning, it's infinitely more unlikely still that an intelligent entity capable of designing and creating an entire universe and everything in it could just exist from nowhere, from nothing, without anything being responsible for its existence. Complexity, and especially the massive complexity required for intelligence, can therefore only arise from an antecedent, non-intelligent process - In the case of life on Earth, this means biological evolution, a fact which is attested to by a vast amount of real objective evidence and valid argument. So, to the extent that science allows us to reliably distinguish between plausible ideas and implausible ideas, it effectively rules out the possibility of an intelligent entity as the uncaused cause of everything that exists.

2: We've known for thousands of years that the 'tri-omni' gods of classical monotheistic religions cannot exist. If an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent deity existed, then human evil could not exist. Since human evil unarguably does exist, the classical monotheistic deity cannot exist (objections about 'free will' notwithstanding).

3: Quantum Mechanics strongly suggests that nothingness is a state that cannot exist in reality, since that would be 100% deterministic, and QM says that existence is probabilistic rather than deterministic. Experimental evidence supports QM. If true, then this also precludes the existence of a creator, since it would be impossible to have a state of 'nothingness' from which a 'something' could be created.

4: David Hume proved that moral values are subjective - i.e. they describe a person's response to events, rather than objective properties of events themselves. Since morals are personal and subjective, there cannot be an external, objective source of moral values - Indeed, the idea is simply incomprehensible. Therefore, any god which is claimed to be the objective source of moral values cannot possibly exist. This includes the gods of most monotheistic religions, by their usual definitions.

5: Argument from design: If everything was designed by an intelligent creator then we would have no basis for identifying things that clearly *are* designed (things made by human beings) since we would have no non-designed (i.e. natural) things to compare them with. Therefore the natural world (everything that has not been designed by humans) must be non-designed, and therefore there can't be a designer god.

6: Anything that holds information or knowledge must be made of discrete parts, such as a brain (neurons and their connections) or a computer (memory locations). Anything that is made of parts cannot be self-existent - it must be made of something pre-existing. Therefore an intelligent entity cannot be self-existent and cannot be the source of everything that exists.