Atheists.....can you answer this?

Question

You always demand proof of God from us Christians. Now, I would like to turn that question around to you. Where is your proof that God doesn't exist? Just wondering if you have any proof, or just following what others say. (As you like to accuse us of doing)

We do have proof of God! The entire solar system working smoothly, earth being the perfect dist. from the sun, and so much more....not to mention the Bible!

Ok, what I meant to ask is why don't you think that there is a God? How did you come to that belief? I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm just curious as to the reason you believe that way.

Answer 1

Wow. You stumped the genius with this question.

Atheists are saying:

1) "We don't have to prove anything to you because you made the statement God exists." WRONG!!!! Atheists made an argument that God does not exist. Burden of proof is on the atheist. I am using the logic of their own arguments which will piss them off to no end.

2) "You can't prove a negative." WRONG!!! That is just uneducated. Ever hear of a class called Statistics? A hypothesis can certainly be negative and you can test and map within a specified degree of certainty the results any time you want. These posters are some of the dumbest and poorest-informed atheists I have ever met.

500 years ago these same people would have stoned and burned Galileo for suggesting the earth revolves around the sun. They would have persecuted Magellan when he sailed around the world proving the earth is ROUND, NOT FLAT. These people are stupid!!!

Here's proof that God existed: Take a look at your own body and note the systems in place that do exactly the same things as everybody else's body does: Digest, pump blood, touch, feel, smell, see. These are systems that were DESIGNED TO FUNCTION IN A SPECIFIC WAY!!! They are designed to be self supporting and efficient. If there is a design, there must be someone who designed it.

Go put together a human body with silicone, water, iron, magnesium, calcuim and all the other essential minerals and elements that comprise of a human body. Will you make a living, breathing human being? NO! OF COURSE NOT!!

Pick up a handfull of dirt, shape it into a globe and bake it. Carve out areas for valleys and water and then put it into a vacuum, like a plastic milk carton and pump the air out. Do you have a universe? Is your planet going to sustain itself??? NO! OF COURSE NOT!!!

Nothing happens by random chance. It all happens by DESIGN!!!

OR WERE THESE ATHEISTS ASLEEP IN SCIENCE CLASS??? These atheists are just plain lazy.

Answer 2

> Atheists.....can you answer this?
I'm not an Atheist, but yes. I'm a Christian, but I've retained enough of my critical thinking so that I can answer as an atheist would answer.

> Where is your proof that God doesn't exist?
No proof. I can't prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist either, and there is considerable evidence for Santa's existence in the form of presents under the tree on Christmas and the eaten cookies. But - Santa Claus isn't the best explanation for the presents or missing cookies. God isn't the best explanation for [fill in the blank - whatever you're crediting Him with doing].

> We do have proof of God!
Do not. No direct evidence. Sorry. No measurements have been taken of Him. Faith is required.

> The entire solar system working smoothly
Gravity does that. It's not terribly smooth either. Didn't you see the videos of the comet train smacking into Jupiter? Ouch!

> Earth being the perfect dist. from the sun
Actually, it's a bit warm and arid where I live. I think it'd be nicer if we didn't have so much axial tilt. Then the seasons wouldn't be so extreme.

> not to mention the Bible!
Consider the possibility that Moses was a cult leader, and others built on what Moses had written. Think it can't happen? How about Joseph Smith building Mormonism on Christianity?

> Ok, what I meant to ask is why don't you think that there is a God?
I've seen no evidence of God, nor any evidence of direct action taken by God. Faith is required. God does not make patterns in burned cheese toast, nor in the rust in underpasses, nor in shadows in church windows.

Answer 3

My wife is atheist. In my case, I'm agnostic, well believe in God but don't stick to any religion.
My argument to her is
there is no proof possible that there is a God but you can't prove there isn't either.
Since we have the big bang and no explanation for it as well as the rules of the Universe (why 2+2=4 and PI=3.14... etc) might as well pick the idea that there is some great entity that created this. I'm reluctant to call it God sometimes because this name is loaded with a bunch of dogma stuff from all religions.
Interestingly, if one religion is the right one, why do we have so many? Look at the mormons and the muslims. The same story: we have to take the word from one guy who said an angel and/or God himself came up to him and told him the whole story. As for Christians, how much of the bible got twisted from the original earlier time. On top of that, the first account were written several decades after Jesus died.
Back to God: the good argument atheist have is religion: if there was a God, why are they so many religion.
If God decided to send someone to teach the world, he would make sure the whole planet gets the story right... leaving no place for interpretation.

Answer 4

I have never ever demanded proof of god. As I wrote in an answer a few weeks ago, I know it is a matter of faith, and therefore I don't demand any kind of proof.

As to the second part of your question, I don't have any proof. But I don't call it faith, I call it common sense. That is not meant as a criticism to faith; I simply am showing that to me there is a difference. Allow me to illustrate:

Faith= believing that an invisible, loving, jealous father-god created all we know and see, and watches over us and judges our actions, and most importantly, our belief in him.

Common sense= not believing in things that are far-fetched, not reproducible, and simply mirror many other religions of the past which we all label now as "myth".

And nope, I don't follow what anyone says. I was asking skeptical questions all on my own at a very young age, I began calling myself an atheist at 14. I never met another atheist until I was 17. I married him :)

Answer 5

Atheists don't need to prove that God exists.. the burden of proof is on the believer. There is no demand made upon you. They simply ask questions of you.
Has God recently come out of heaven and spoken to the nation of Israel like he did in O.T. times? That was a huge deal for the jewish people-national revelation.
Have you seen God?
Have you touched God?
Have you personally experienced anything tangible?
These are questions one would ask for proof.. now, if you are asking those same questions of an atheist, they can certainly say no. There's the "proof",
You believers can say "No, I haven't seen God. No man has (although that IS contradicted in the bible)" Have you touched God? "No"
Have you personally experienced anything tangible? "Yes, I experienced a miracle.. that HAD to be God". And, if that's your proof, then the atheist's proof is just as valid.
Why people try to argue this is beyond me. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Answer 6

first off, i don't need proof that he doesn't exist, you need to proof to show that he actually exists. if i were to claim that i have an invisible pet unicorn, i can't tell you to disprove me, i ahve to show that there is actual evidence for my claim.
however, i don't believe in god because there is absolutely no rational evidence for him. the fact that the universe exists the way it does is not proof of god's existence. it confirms the ideas that are almost universally accepted within the scientific community, that the big bang occured and evolution eventually took place on at least one planet in the universe.
as for the bible, if you have an wish to be thought intelligent, you cannot seriously take the bible as proof that god exists. if god does exist and is in fact omnipotent and omniscient, it stands to reason that he could do a better job of conveying his message than in a self-contradictory book that advocates intolerance, genocide, and capital punishment for everything from eating shrimp to cursing your parents. if you accept the statements within the bible as proof of god's existence, presumably you also accept the harry potter books as proof that there are in fact wizards all over the world and that voldemort is a pretty mean guy.

Answer 7

Well, logically, you can't prove something doesn't exist. If I were to tell you that there is a big invisible bunny behind you, you couldn't prove it wasn't there, but I agree with you one some level, anyway. Although there is no proof for a God, I still think there is one, and I recognize that I could be wrong. I seem to want atheists to recognize that they could be wrong, too, but most of them do. If something came along to prove God, they would accept it, but when something is proven to be against scripture, many religious people just deny it anyway.

Edit: the solar system and stuff is not proof of God. Sorry. I'm a theist, but this does not prove anything. It could just as easily be presented as proof of your giant bunny, but it wouldn't prove that either.

Answer 8

Have you just arrived from some remote jungle? This question has been asked several thousands times and answered.

You cannot prove a negative, it is not the onus of someone who knows something does not exist to prove non existence. The onus is on the believer.

If you believe something and expect others to believe it, have some evidence. If you have none, I do not have to provide any for you.

It is basic logic 101.

And fy, Atheists do not demand anything, we simply search for reason and reasons.

Answer 9

Sweetie, although you think what you said is logical -

You can't prove a negative - about god, about anything

Ask anybody, ask a Christian - you can't prove a negative - about anything. I'm sure others will list many examples of this so I won't

But sweetie, you can't prove a negative - about anything

Also, in any situation, the burden of proof rests on the person making the claim - if you say god exists you must prove it. If I say Homer Simpson exists, the burden is on me to prove it, not you to disprove

Nevertheless, you can't prove a negative - about anything

Answer 10

Demanding someone prove a universal negative is an absurdity.

God is not impossible. He's just really, really, really, really, really, REALLY unlikely. You have more of a chance of being hit by two lightning bolts at the same time than that God exists (keep in mind that it's not just "god or not," but "god, and not any of the other thousands of gods that I don't believe in, but this one specific one that I do believe in, or not")