A question to Atheists?

Question

I am Agnostic, I don't know if there is a God or not? Frankly I don't care either because if there is, he/she doesn't care about us.
My question is, from a scientific view point if God can neither be proven or disproven... How can you outright deny the existance of a God in any form?

Many of you actually sound like Agnostics. You don't have faith in a God but cannot 100% refute the existance of one.
Agnostics aren't fence sitters, we simply don't care. Rather than be ignorant to possibility we say "I don't know!"
I don't know a lot of things; Ghosts, Aliens and so on.. Doesn't mean they exist but it also doesn't mean that they don't. Agnostics wait for undeniable proof before they discard all possiblities.

Many of you actually sound like Agnostics. You don't have faith in a God but cannot 100% refute the existance of one.
Agnostics aren't fence sitters, we simply don't care. Rather than be ignorant to possibility we say "I don't know!"
I don't know a lot of things; Ghosts, Aliens and so on.. Doesn't mean they exist but it also doesn't mean that they don't. Agnostics wait for undeniable proof before they discard all possiblities.

Answer 1

You can't, go watch dogma, all we have is a good idea.

Answer 2

I consider myself an atheist and I don't "deny the existance of a God in any form."

As for a Christian or Muslim God or whatever, I can deny their existance. It's simple, really...if that God did exist, all kinds of stuff that does happen, wouldn't, and all kinds of stuff that should then happen, doesn't. Prayer wouldn't be the massive waste of time it is in reality, and it just doesn't seem like that kind of God would basically forget about running the ship for the last two thousand years as has happened.

It's kind of like saying how do I know a Ford isn't parking in my drive way when I'm at work? Well, there would be oil in my drive way if one was, and there isn't. Hence, no Ford (haha, Ford owners).

If there's some kind of other impersonal God that doesn't interfere with the natural order of things...well then it doesn't really matter to me or you anyway, right? So it's not even worth worrying about such a god.

For all practical purposes, you can call that atheism.

Answer 3

As an atheist I work off the best possible evidence available.
There is zero evidence of a god. Science has proven itself to be both reliable and capable of predicting outcomes based on theories. (Unlike religious 'prophecy' which is hot air.)
I don't know of a single atheist who would deny a 'god' if there were actually some proof. However, at some point you have to make an educated guess. Why believe in something if there is no proof of it's existence? Why take as a fact the insane ramblings of superstitious people and accept them as some sort of evidence of how and why we exist?
I don't know what the meaning of life is, but I see science making great strides in answering these important questions. Religions on the other hand comes up with the answer first and then tries to shape reality around it.
In case you haven't noticed, they aren't all that good at it. (Just good at brainwashing people.)

Answer 4

As an atheist I have never said that I have 100% knowledge that god(s) don't exist. What I have said is that god(s) are not needed to make sense out of the universe. Nor are they needed for moral clarity.

I also have seen no proof that any god ever existed. Therefore I have no belief. Simple. Give me proofand I'll believe. Otherwise its all nonsense.

Can the Tooth Fairy be proven? But you don't believe in the tooth fairy, because your mom put that quarter under your pillow.

What's the difference between an atheist and an agnostic anyway? If you ask them about god, one says no, the other who cares? Not much of a difference.

Answer 5

Because as an atheist, I have a complete lack of belief in the existence of any God. It is a matter of NOT BELIEVING there is a God, not of BELIEVING there is no God. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods.

Atheists are thought to be closed-minded because they deny the existence of gods, whereas agnostics appear to be open-minded because they do not know for sure.

Actually, agnosticism is compatible with both theism and atheism. A person can believe in a god (theism) without claiming to know for sure if that god exists; the result is agnostic theism. On the other hand, a person can disbelieve in gods (atheism) without claiming to know for sure that no gods can or do exist; the result is agnostic atheism.

Not only can a person be both, but it is in fact common for people to be both agnostics and atheists. An agnostic atheist won’t claim to know for sure that “god” exists or cannot exist, but they also don’t actively believe that such a god does indeed exist.

Answer 6

I'm an agnostic atheist. I see no reason to express a belief in any God, not deny the existence that ANY god could EVER exist. There's no way to test for that.

But there's never been any evidence for the existence of any God that human beings have ever described. That's good enough for me to fall under the definition of a soft atheist: Someone who does not hold a belief in any God. A hard atheist takes a faith position that no God will ever be found to exist.

Wwhile I'm sympathetic with that position, I can't be so self-assured to take it as my own.

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Answer 7

I can't claim to be one hundred percent sure that God doesn't exist in the same way I cannot claim that fairies definitely don't exist. But it's so obvious that there was no such thing as God or gods before homo sapiens arrived on the scene, so I feel justified in my confidence.

Just because something can't be conclusively proved one way or the other doesn't mean both positions are equally valid. And it certainly doesn't make agnosticism a strong intellectual position either.

EDIT: I like ChanceLikely's answer. *chuckle*

Answer 8

if your talking from a scientific view then god shouldnt be in your thoughts. im not saying if your some kind of scientist you are an atheist, im just saying from a scientific nothing is seen as "gods will". everything has a reason. you cant mix science and religion.

i can deny the existance of god in any form because i dont "feel" the presence of an omnipotent being anywhere. i dont BELIEVE there is a god. its not something that can be proven through science. im an atheist and i know that.

Answer 9

Because when there is no scientific evidence, then that is a good sign, it does not exist. When the bible has so much in it that can be disproved and so many scientific mistakes, you can pretty much assume it is all garbage.
Let's imagine that a new religion based on football comes out. It says that there is a football god people can pray to so that their team wins. Now lets say they have a religious book, and many places in the book say that a touchdown is worth 5 pts and the football field is 150 yds long. Would you believe in this religion? Would you believe in this God? Even if the team you always pray for loses everytime?

Answer 10

Atheism is simply having no god belief: a = without, theism = belief in the existence of a god or gods. This is why I find agnosticism a cop-out. If someone says they can't know either way, that means they have no god belief, therefore, they are an atheist.

Answer 11

God could easily be proven to exist. Breaking physical laws in full view of people and doing it repeatably would be a big tip-off. But it's not happening.

And I don't deny the existance of god in any form. I merely say that based on current evidence I see no reason to believe in a god. That's atheism - lack of belief. I'm perfectly willing to change my mind if someone breaks basic laws of physics in front of me.