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In two other threads on this site mallymooface has claimed that there is evidence for God, on one occasion even saying "there is plenty of physical evidence for God".
She also asks whether I can produce proof that God doesn't exist. Taking them in order:
The first one is easy from my end: what evidence do you have, mallymooface, for God's existence? I don't mean faith or personal conviction; I mean evidence - your word.
As to the second (that old chestnut) the fact that one cannot prove the non-existence of unnatural things that people have mooted does not support the truth of them.
I am sure that I cannot disprove the existence of unicorns, magic carpets, Elwood P Dowd's invisible white rabbit called 'Harvey' or shoe-mending elves, but does that inability of mine add to their credibility? If so, then anyone can invent any crazy thing and then sit back smugly and say "You disprove it!"
It is for those who claim incredible things to prove them, or at least provide evidence that the rest of us can chase up.
She also asks whether I can produce proof that God doesn't exist. Taking them in order:
The first one is easy from my end: what evidence do you have, mallymooface, for God's existence? I don't mean faith or personal conviction; I mean evidence - your word.
As to the second (that old chestnut) the fact that one cannot prove the non-existence of unnatural things that people have mooted does not support the truth of them.
I am sure that I cannot disprove the existence of unicorns, magic carpets, Elwood P Dowd's invisible white rabbit called 'Harvey' or shoe-mending elves, but does that inability of mine add to their credibility? If so, then anyone can invent any crazy thing and then sit back smugly and say "You disprove it!"
It is for those who claim incredible things to prove them, or at least provide evidence that the rest of us can chase up.
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Incredible is not a good word, irrational is better.
Most faiths mark God as creator, yet obviously make no attempt to explain how God was created ( Otherwise he wouldn't be God).
It's clearly more rational to believe that the Universe "spontaneously arose" or has always existed compared to believing that God "sponatneously arose" or always existed and then created the Universe.
Just in the same way that it's even less rational to believe that a giant Robot created God who created the Universe etc.
Most faiths mark God as creator, yet obviously make no attempt to explain how God was created ( Otherwise he wouldn't be God).
It's clearly more rational to believe that the Universe "spontaneously arose" or has always existed compared to believing that God "sponatneously arose" or always existed and then created the Universe.
Just in the same way that it's even less rational to believe that a giant Robot created God who created the Universe etc.
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