Atheists. What conclusive evidence do you have that it is impossible for God to exist?

Question

It seems that atheism is an unsubstantiated theory if no evidence exists to prove it conclusively.

Answer 1

Allow me to give you some evidence that not only God exists but that HE IS ! That is His name. "I AM." He is the life of everything that lives. We have five hundred muscles in the body and they are all controlled by the will, the mind. When I strike with my hand or beat with my fist, there is a will behind the hand and the fist. My muscles do not act unless there is a command to contract. The thing that is efficient and all essential is the will, it is the commanding power. My arm will contract and cause the fist to beat; but it beats only when my will commands. But here is a muscle in the body that beats when I am asleep. It beats when my will is inactive and I am utterly unconscious. It keeps on beating all the time. What will is it that causes this heart to beat? The heart can not beat once without a command!

To me it is a wonderful thing that a man's heart goes on beating. It does not beat by means of my will; for I can not stop the heart's beating, or make it beat faster or slower by commanding it by my will. But there is a will that controls the heart. It is the divine will that causes it to beat. In the beating of the heart that you can feel, as you put your hand upon the breast, or as you put your finger against the pulse, we have the evidence of an unseen, mighty Intelligence, a power, a will within, that is commanding the functions of our bodies and controlling them!

Every pulsation of the heart is an evidence of the care of "Him in whom we live and move and have our being." Acts 17:28.

"The Lord is at hand." Philippians 4:5.

Answer 2

So now we're trying to disprove Atheism in the same way that Atheists try to disprove religions? Look man, you can't have it both ways. Either you're right and you don't care who says differently, or you're wrong and don't know it. If you believe you're right, that there is a God, then at the core, you believe the same way that Atheists believe that there isn't. Neither party can or should claim to have proof. Atheism simply states that there can be no proof for God's existence, so therefore we refuse to subscribe to any religion that claims that God does exist. What we find laughable is when people claim to have proof where none exists, or can exist. Atheists do not make the claim that we can prove God does not exist. Never have, never will (at least not in my experience). It's all a philosophical argument that nobody can win.

Answer 3

Atheism does not mean a complete rejection in the idea of God. It just simply means I'm not a theist: I don't personally believe in one. People just wrongly assume that every atheist says there's no god.

You can't prove that there's a God any more than you can prove there's no God. It's your belief and/or faith that dictates it. To say that it's an "unsubstantiated theory" is really opening yourself up for an obvious counter-remark if your position is that God must exist.

Answer 4

Atheism is no more "unsubstantiated" than belief in god.

But we have tons of scientific journals, tests and actual real life exhibits to back up our "theories". And these are studies made by people of all countries, people of all beliefs using proven methods, completely unlike Christianity's "because one book says so". I can pick up a mammoth's bones. I can look to the earth's crust for proof that the great flood did not "cover" the earth. I can touch neanderthal man's remains.

I think you could get most Atheists to admit that if scientific proven evidence is ever unearthed to the contrary of our current belief, we would at least examine it for ourselves and potentially change our conclusions.

See that is the beauty of scientific theories, they are liquid and they grow and change as new evidence is unearthed, new technology used and new results found out. It doesn't make the old theories false, it means that they were the best we could come up with for the technology limitations of that time.

Answer 5

What conclusive proof do you have that your deity is the only real one and that Ahuramazda, Amon, Allah, Baal, Brahma, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Zeus, Odin, Marduk, etc. do not exist? I have a degree in Art and Philosophy, and I studied the major world religions in the latter courses, plus I took Bible History. Mom's father was a pastor, so I was taught the Bible from the time I was born. The Bible is proof that the deity in it (YHWH) does not exist, because it is full of glaring contradictions and pathetic ignorance of science and the real world. I have worked in engineering, so I may use pi every day. In the Bible, First Kings 7:23 and Chronicles 4:2-5 indicate that the value of pi is 3.00. If I used that in my work, I would be fired for incompetence. My boss would not accept the excuse that the Bible says pi is 3. From Genesis to Revelation, we see a belief that the sky is a solid dome 15 miles or less above us, so stars fall to the ground, and the sky rolls up like as scroll. Ancient Greek thinkers knew more about his than the Bible's authors. Aristarchus measured the distance accurately to the Moon (238,000 miles average) and said the Sun was 5,000,000 miles away. He was short of the actual 93,000,000 miles average, but he knew it was much more than 7 to 15 miles to a dome with the Sun, Moon, stars and planets on it, as the Bible indicates. I have a long list of scientific errors and contradictions in all religions. Do you know anything at all about Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, etc.? I do!

Answer 6

I am a Christian. You honestly can't ask that question, you are asking to prove a negative which is impossible. That is like the conspiracy theorist about 9/11 saying prove to me it didn't happen the way I said it did.

The burden of proof is on us theist. However, anyone that is honest intellectually will conclude that there is no conclusive evidence either direction. There is a sum of evidence and I believe wholeheartedly that the most logical and rational conclusion based on this evidence is that God in fact exists.

Answer 7

Theories don't get conclusively proven, they get supported by evidence. The lack of evidence either proving or disproving God's existence causes atheists to take the default position, which is that God doesn't exist.

I also can't conclusively prove to you that there's not a magical teapot orbiting the Earth. Does that make the theory of "No Orbiting Teapots" unsubstantiated and untrue?

Answer 8

I don't claim anything is impossible, only extremely unlikely. Nothing in the real world can be proven. Proof is only possible in Math and Logic, and even then proof does not mean absolute certainty because the proof can always contain human error.

I am an atheist because I am unconvinced that gods exist.

Copied Directly From Webster's Online Dictionary:

Atheism:
2 a : a disbelief in the existence of deity

For those to whom English is a second language:

Disbelief means lack of belief.

Answer 9

omniscient and freewill together. If you already know what is going to happen, what sort of freewill are you giving?

Omnipotent and the inability to show proof. If you are Omnipotent and you really "love" mankind, why can't a simple substantial proof be shown?

The fact there is no evidence of god's existence. If there is no evidence of existence, it is a conclusive evidence of non existence, just like the fact there is no evidence for tooth fairies existence.

Answer 10

You have a point, but you really needn't go trying to get people to PROVE what they believe through debate.

Give them a break, and maybe they'll stop hassling us Christians about what we believe.

Just be happy - it doesn't come down to what we believe, it comes down to the fact that we all live on the same planet and we're all God-created human beings with feelings and emotions who deserve the respect of being able to choose what to believe without having to apologise for it. God gave us free will for a reason :-)