When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?

[Brian37]

Well the particular idiot that peaked my interest was an Eastern European Orthodox Christian by the name of IFightForJesus a rather ill educated person it seems had heard of christianity but actually knew not a lot about it and its history, you'd be surprised how often this is the case, but I digress, I was introduced to this poster by a friend of mine who was an administrator on this forum a sort of "look at the sort of morons we get here" kind of thing and then I was hooked. You'd also be surprised at the amount of theistic idiots that pass through  they be thin on the ground by gum they're entertaining Waldorf and Statler was a high point in self delusion trying to make the facts fit the bible by postulating that light travelled instantaneously in one direction and other twists of the mind to try and bend an uncooperative reality to fit with his god made world.
Theists tend to see a world made by god, they see a nice vista, god did that, someone gets saved unexpectedly in some way, god did that, but when the opposite happens god never gets the blame now does it, So theists go into the world with god tinted spectacles as a preconceived way of looking at the world. the only way to remove prejudged ideas from how we view anything is to rigorously apply the scientific method. When you do that to all the evidence none of it even hints at the existence of the thing you call god. So non-belief is the only option for any rational intelligent suitably informed person.

Okay. But the scientific method doesn't prove that God doesn't exist. It doesn't even make God's existence less likely.

Strictly speaking, all it does is refute those people who say there is no physical cause to an event other than a direct intervention by God. Such a view of nature has never been taught by Christianity, and the number of believers who take it to be true is not sufficient to indict all Christians. And moreover, refuting it doesn't refute all of Christianity.

So there seems to be a gap in your reasoning here. The scientific method doesn't make one an atheist. 

In fact, one would not be surprised at the lack of direct scientific evidence of God because science is limited to a subset of the operations of the physical world. You won't find evidence of the existence of Henry Ford by studying the engine of a Ford Focus either.

Wouldn't it be idiotic for someone to declare, having studied a Ford, to declare that Henry Ford never existed? That's how atheists reason routinely.

See if you can spot the pattern.......

"Ok. But scientific method doesn't prove that Allah doesn't exist"

"Ok. But scientific method doesn't prove that Yahweh doesn't exist."


"Ok. But scientific method doesn't prove that Vishnu doesn't exist."

"Ok. But scientific method doesn't prove that Apollo doesn't exist."

"Ok. But scientific method doesn't prove that invisible pink unicorns don't exist."


How is it you'd rightfully reject the above list if others used that as an argument, but refuse to apply that same logic to your own claims? Again, maybe you need to consider you got it wrong. If the list above would not convince you, we agree, this list would not convince us either. We simply reject one more god claim than you do.