Atheists: Evidence that there is no Higher Power?

Question

Aren't you being illogical and un-scientific by believing in something that you cannot even prove? Like for example, believing that there's no High Power when you CAN'T even PROVE that a Higher Power DOESN'T exist.

Before you bash persistent Theists, why don't you just check yourself. You're just as fiery with your arrogant beliefs that nothing in the world can be more logical or more intelligent than you are.

Even Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein weren't atheists, they have always left a door open regarding the existence of a Higher Power. Why? Because no human can ever prove that there is no Higher Power... and other than believing in it or believing in the possibility of it, there is no 'scientific' way to prove that there is a Higher Power. If people chose to be atheist, it is only because they believe that a Higher Power should not exist, not because they actually know so, as proven by science.

I did not mention God :)
I did not write this question claiming of 'God's' or a Higher Power's existence...I was merely talking about how atheists blindly rule out possibilities, just because they are not able to prove it. I liked Alan's answer.

can we please ignore religion or the concept of the 'God' that you've been raised to know about...this is why I chose the word Higher Power! A being unknown that's alot greater and doesn't perish as easily as we do.

Again, I'M NOT refering to RELIGION or DOCUMENTED CLAIMS from it right here, just the fact that it is a possibility that something is out there and bigger than we are.

Answer 1

It is illogical to "prove a negative."

There is no evidence for god. When there is no evidence, most people don't accept the validity of a claim. You have never seen any evidence for Santa, unicorns, or teapots orbiting Saturn, and you have no problem accepting the non-existence of these things. I refuse to give god special status. It should live up to the same rules of belief as every other scrap in the universe. Until someone can show me real evidence, I don't feel the need to believe there is a god.

Answer 2

Seeing a "higher power". There's a big difference between people that can be lead on faith alone and those that are smart enough to want proof before dedicating their life to someone who's not there. Another piece of evidence I'd like is a good Christian. Most of them are solely corrupt, closed minded, and rude to Atheists.

Answer 3

Where is your evidence that there is a Higher Power.
You cannot prove something doesn't exist because until proof of existence exists there is no way to prove nonexistence, not scientific or otherwise. Your only proof of existence is you feel that its true.
However If you had been raised a Muslim, in a Muslim community, in a Muslim atmosphere, and in a Muslim country. Would you still be a Christian?...Of course not you'd be a Muslim...The opposite is true and there for you are not a Muslim.
That's the facts, you are who raised you and that is why you have your belief system.

Answer 4

Look up 'the creation' at www.figu.org (English Discussion Forum)
this details the philosophy etc behind the idea that regarding intelligent design, there is not a 'creator' as such.
An entity but a process - call it the life force or life energy or the creativity of life, in every living thing.

That so called higher power, is 'the creation' that which everything else is part of... and that includes us...

Answer 5

There is no higher power, no religion is true. Since there are so many different religions, the true God would need to put his signature on a religion to let the seekers know that it is the officially God sanctioned chruch. He would do that by putting in advanced scientific knowledge into the scriptures, such as the speed of light. No one but God would know what the speed of light is 2000 years ago, so that would be seen as his official signature.

No such signature of a supreme being exists in any religion whatsoever, therefore there are all false. Either that or God doesn't want people to worship him.

Answer 6

Okay, sure... anything is possible.

If you want to fritter away all your time entertaining endless possibilities, go right ahead.

While you're busy counting to infinity, the rest of us will study real things which are supported by evidence, learn, and contribute to the progress of humanity (which, by-the-way, is precisely what Hawking and Einstein did/do. They didn't waste their days expelling hot air about the existence of unprovable higher powers.)

Answer 7

I do leave the door open for the possibility of a higher power. I just don't expect anything to ever come from it. By the same token I believe that there is, maybe, a 0.1% chance that Astrology will be proven someday. But I'm not going to cancel any fishing trips waiting for it.

Answer 8

Did you know that Charles Darwin, the Atheist equivalent to Jesus, wasn't a Atheist? He was an Agnostic.

Atheist are just like Theist, and That is way I'm neither. I'm an Agnostic.

Answer 9

It is quite impossible to prove a negative. The burden of proof lies on the one who believes in a higher power.

Answer 10

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own; a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms…
~ Albert Einstein, obituary

You can't disprove an imaginary being. But you can disprove the story-logic of that imaginary being.