exactly how do you know santa claus doesnt exist?

Question

both god and santa claus are believed in at some age

they both do things that are impossible
1)god can make a virgin give birth without getting knocked up first
2)santa can make reindeer float in the air
3)god can listen to several people at the same time when they pray
4)santa can go to billions of houses in one night

they are both popular to some extent
and both have beards
and neither can be proven to exist

so how can you say god exists and not santa? we cant prove either exist right so why is it wrong to believe in santa?

you cant believe god exists and still believe in him, why not santa?

Answer 1

No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, and assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of his sleigh, jump down the chimnye, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course we know to be false but for the purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking aabout .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 punds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (refer to point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal load, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entereing the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per SECOND, EACH! In short, hey will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousanths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal* forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead by now.
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Answer 2

Santa Claus was a Christian pastor. He was called Saint Nickolaus, and many of the traditions that started around him grew into the character of tradition and childhood happiness around the world. Without God, there would have been no Santa Claus, and without God Incarnate (the Christmas babe in a manger) there would be no reason to drag ol Santa out once a year to decorate our holiday and add whimsy.
Santa's visit might be used to curb the behavior of children before the holiday, but God is not twisting anyone's arm. We aren't as good as we think we are, and the first Christmas was because that is a fact. God knew you couldn't be good enough for heaven, because heaven is perfect, so God stepped out of heaven and became one of us to live the perfect life we could not, and to pay the penalty we deserve for our sin. It's not now about "be good or no heaven," it's about "take what God has done for you through Jesus Christ and you get heaven thrown in like a big fat Christmas present!"
You have a wrong idea about how to get to heaven. You can't do it so He did it for you. Open the present, or refuse? That's up to you.
PS, Kris Kringle is German for "Christ Child." How's that for a connection? So you could rightly say, God = Kris Kringle (for everyone). Blessings.

Answer 3

I asked the same question here (see the first attached link).

Since then I have found out about a phenomenon called relativity clouds (Santa Claus apparently has advanced knowledge of the Theory of Relativity) that explains how he can deliver all his presents in one night.

Answer 4

Why should your child believe he is bad - bad kids don't get presents from Santa. I am not going to lie if they ask me directly someday. Mine are 1 & 3. But I will have at least one gift under the tree from Santa. They are good kids and I want them to know Santa thinks so.

Answer 5

They both see you when you're sleeping or awake, they both know if you've been bad or good, they both reward you for being good (God with heaven, Santa with toys) and punish you for being bad (God with hell, Santa with a lump of coal), they both do miracles, both are said to love children most of all. So how do I know they don't exist? Because I prayed to God for a pony, and I wrote a letter to Santa for a pony, and NEITHER ONE OF THEM GAVE ME A PONY!! >:o(

Answer 6

One cannot prove empirically that the object under discussion does not exist. Rather, the object under discussion is assumed not to exist until such time as it can be demonstrated that the object does exist. The burden of proof rests upon the party proclaiming the object does exist.


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Answer 7

I believe in God but not Santa, because the stories about Santa are silly.

Answer 8

Well Santa is actually St. Nick who was a REAL person...so who said he doesn't exist?

Answer 9

Actually, santa has more physical proof than god. PREEEEESSSEEENNNNTTTSS! Santa is alot more likeable than god.

Answer 10

Who said it was wrong? Please supply the proof that God does not exist. Jesus may have had a beard, that doesn't mean that God the Father does. God is in spirit form. Jesus is not only recorded in the Bible, He is also recorded in ancient eastern world history.