Non-Christians, can you cite your sources for not believing?

Question

When I say this, what I mean is you cannot PROVE OR DISPROVE the existence of God, so to say there is NO God is not a fact. You are relying on faith, which is ironic because atheists are not supposed to believe in faith.

There is evidence for God though. We have the Bible. Just look all around you. Look how complex life is.

So, atheists, cite your source (NOT guess work) on why you don't believe. Where is your SCIENTIFIC evidence of there being NO God?

The point I'm trying to make is that atheism requires faith too.

Answer 1

Yes, athiesm requires faith in a set of hypothesis. And God does not expect a Christian's faith to be blind, but it is based on evidences.

The Bible plainly establishes Christ's messiahship with prophecies of His coming and mission. Also, Creation, just a simple flower, or babies giggle, establishes God's existence.

With all the evidence, a true statement is recorded in Psalms 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none [in that atheistic group] that doeth good.

A Bible code proves Jesus is the Messiah. See www.revelado.org/revealed.htm
Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Answer 2

Firstly non-Christians are not necessarily atheists. There are quite a few other religions who have a deity or deities.

Secondly, without any evidence to the contrary it is reasonable to assume there is no God, that not faith, it's scienctific. It is up to believers to prove there is a god.

The "proof" of there not being a God is there is no proof that a God exists. The bible is just a book that was written over 1500 years ago and the complexity of life has evolved over the last few million years, neither prove the existence of a God, if there's really an all-seeing all-knowing being then surely there has to be more evidence than a very old book.

I'm an atheist, I know there is no God because if he were a truly good being there would be no murders, no famines, etc, etc.

You ask us to give you scientific evidence of there being no God. However, as I've said you've not provided any scientific evidence for God existing.

Answer 3

All nonsense.
There is ZERO evidence to even suggest that there is an actual god.
All gods throughout the history of thinking man have been created via the imagination of that thinking man and the current crop - and there are many - are just as imaginary.
I am not interested in proving the non-existence. If you feel strongly, you prove the existence for, after all, it is you that claim that the invisible and silent wizard in the sky is there, not me.
The bible is evidence only of man's work and nothing else. Evidence, incidentally, of man's ability to copy, borrow and steal stories from previous religions. Nothing more.
Looking around me ..... I see no evidence at all of a god's hand in anything. To see so is evidence of a deluded mind. You will see and interpret what you wish to see. "Ooooh, look! A rainbow!! That proves there is a god!!!" Yeah, right. All it proves is that you can see a rainbow.
So, don't demand scientific evidence which proves that something isn't there. That is just infantile.
Atheism requires faith/? Faith in what? Faith that the sun will come up again tomorrow morning? OK - I have faith in that if we interpret the word in its purest sense but I have absolutely no faith at all that there is an imaginary friend in the clouds. Since that is claimed as your entire point, you have failed miserably.

Answer 4

this question assumes that all non-christians are atheists.

also, when did i say i wanted to disprove god? you know more about me than i do, apparently.

well, most of the sources are in my mind. reasoning on a variety of issues such as a realistic nature of a god, morality, and other things.

i read a lot as well. there's this thing called evolution. it, and the big bang come together to give us a good idea of the earth and universe's age.

look into it. clearly, the earth was not spoke into existence 6000 years ago as Jesus' genealogy would suggest. and it certainly didn't happen in 7 days.

now, to believe the way most christians do with hybrid theories that incorporate science would be to "add to or take away". and we'll get left behind in the rapture.

so,you are either a fundamentalist christian, a non-christian, or a hypocrite. which sounds like the best option?

i may not be able to disprove god. but i can definitely disprove christian god.
some "sources":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
check out this documentary on the history channel the next time it comes on. "how the earth was made" really interesting. also, it will show you the earth is older than the bible claims.

Answer 5

The Bible was written by people NOT God and therefore could simply be mans way of explaining the creation of the world before Science explained it all. Life is complex but that has come from millions of years of evolution and was not created by a God in seven days.

and atheism doesn't really require faith it is more a lack of faith that a God exists.

Anyway who is to say there is a God or there isn't does it really matter as long as everyone respects other peoples beliefs.

I am not a atheist so I won't deny there is a God I just don't worship him/her :)

Answer 6

There is no need to "prove" the non-existence of something.

If you base your "proof" on an old book then it is not a proof.

It is not rational to use the complexity of life as a "proof" when such complexity is proven by the continuous cascade of evidence from biology, palaeontology, neurophysiology, etc., for evolution.

Atheism does not require proof, it does not require faith. It is no more and no less that a refusal to believe in gods.

Answer 7

The Bible and complex life are not evidence for your God any more than the Book of the Dead and the Pyramids are proof of the existence of Osiris and Anubis.

Please get over your beliefs, that is all they are. And just so you're clear on this matter - religious faith is not the same as rationality - judging that something doesn't exist based on the lack of evidence is common sense.

Answer 8

Reason, countless hours studying world religions and human history, logic, scientific discovery, physics, biology, intellectually honesty, intuition, religious followers etc.

Additionally, if you are talking about the patriarchal Middle-Eastern pappy 'God', then the Qu'ran and The Bible are so far my best sources for not believing. God's word? Why, then, are they a heap of primitive, patriarchal, neo-pagan neuroses woven into an egotistical human-centric fable, again woven with superstition and very real ignorance as to physical laws and science, and finally tied together with flagrant (again primitive) attempts at control and social engineering?

My largest single 'source' for being agnostic/atheist is my own honesty. I would have to literally lie to myself and others in order to bend my belief/knowledge to fit scriptural or doctrinal superstitious stuff.

If I see evidence of a deity, I will consider it. But I haven't, and so I don't.

I *do* see enormous evidence of delusion and denial and lies, all in the name of 'belief' or 'faith'.

Your theory that non-belief requires 'faith' is maybe just your ego-centric viewpoint?

I don't require faith to *not* believe in The Purple-Spiny-Hippohorse that floats 3 metres above the Dead Sea and radiates love beams to believers.

I see and feel no evidence, so I have no belief in it. No faith required.

Can you understand that simple equation?

I guess not, because as you stated, you weren't really asking a 'question', you were trying to 'make a point'.

There is a difference, you know...


PS 'Non-Christians' aren't all atheist...

Answer 9

No atheist I have ever known in my entire life has said that the absence of God is a fact. You have no idea what you're talking about. There's nothing to cite, since there's no evidence of God existing. Atheists just rule him out. You can't prove a negative. Atheism does not require faith, it requires lack of faith. It requires an inquisitive and rational mind.

We keep our minds open. It's important to understand that we don't hate the concept of God, we just see no reason to believe in it if it can't be backed up. I could very well tell you that there's a dragon in your garage and that I firmly believe it because of faith. If you didn't believe me, you'd be an adragonist. We keep our minds open. Show us (actual) evidence of a god and we'll become theists. Simple as that.

I also noticed that you're asking for scientific evidence that God doesn't exist, while believing in the Bible which is not only backed by zero scientific evidence, but also contradicts a lot of scientific fact itself.

Answer 10

We don't need scientific evidence to NOT believe, just as you christians don't need scientific evidence TO believe. The bible is not evidence - it's just a book. Just as Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" is just a book. Given that the bible has probably been mistranslated over the centuries, I'd prefer to put my "faith" in something a that shows some rational, logical reasoning. I don't actually care whether there's a god or not. I don't think there is, but I don't condem my christian friends for believing. I sometimes stick my hands over my ears and say "lar lar lar lar not listening to this" when they try to preach at me, but I feel this is just as mature as blindly following the bible WITHOUT giving any thought to what you're being told.