(September 30, 2009 at 3:10 pm)solarwave Wrote: Also lot of people said 'There can be no proof for God's existance'. Doesn't that leave your position unverifiable and unfalsifiable? Isn't like saying, 'This is what I think and theres no possible way I could be wrong'. I dunno, just seems a bit fishy to me.
Well, if you were referring to me (also since you haven't responded to my post, despite the fact it differs quite a bit from others here, who give examples of evidence):
I'm not sure whether there can be evidence or not. And how should I know what it would look like? I can't think of anything that would justify it. God seems unfalsifiable and therefore not scientifically verifiable as far as I can tell. How would I be able to distinguish between a super-powerful alien pretending to be God, that appeared completely God-like and omnipotent, from an actual God? And aliens are evolved, and actually have an explanation, they aren't 'just there'. And also, appearing omnipotent is not the same as being genuinely omnipotent. So the super-powerful alien as opposed to the supernatural God is much more probable.
No, I'm not saying God is impossible. But whether there can be evidence for God or not, I'm not going to believe without any...but I can't prove a negative, I can't know God doesn't exist, whether there can be any evidence or not for him. Because for a start, if he exists, it's possible for him to still exist but there be no way that there can be evidence for him, until after you die and you find out that way. So even if there can't be any evidence for him (and as I said, I don't know if there can or not), that doesn't mean he doesn't exist - because you can't prove a negative.
Hope that clarifies my position, if you didn't already understand it already.
EvF
