RE: What are the evidence for no god?
October 16, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(October 16, 2015 at 4:24 pm)sinnerdaniel94 Wrote: What are the evidence for no god?
Contrary to what you seem to think, it isn't up to us to provide evidence for something we do not believe exists. Suppose, for instance, you don't believe in Australia. Aside from making you a dangerous nutcase of the first water, no one is going to come up to you and say, 'Give me evidence that Australia doesn't exist'. You, however, would be perfectly justified in asking people, 'What evidence do you have that there is such a place as Australia?' That's how it works. YOU are the one making a positive claim. Therefore, the onus is on YOU to provide evidence (or at least a compelling argument) that God exists.
That being said, there
is some evidentiary basis for the non-existence of God, but it is all of a negative sort.
-There is nothing attributed to God that is not better and more completely explained by non-God explanations. If the turbulence experience by a jet liner is explicable as air masses, why bother with the explanation that God is shaking the plan? A concept that explains nothing is useless. If God is useless, God may as well not exist.
-There is no linguistic construct to which we can point as agree 'That is God.' In other words, what a Jew or Christian means by 'God' isn't the same as what a Hindu, Wiccan or Deist means. All of these people, other the other hand, can agree on what a tree, a snow bank, or a knife are.
-Definitions of God are incoherent (this may look like the same as the point above, but it isn't, really). No one gets confused by or has trouble defining the English word 'cat'. No one says, 'Well, that's YOUR definition of "cat", but I define "cat" differently.' If a definition cannot describe the thing in question, it is certainly possible that the definition is wrong. What is more likely, though, is that when - after several millennia of trying - there is no workable, coherent definition of God, we're trying to describe something for which we have no referent, because it doesn't exist (test: Define qlewkthj in a way I can understand.)
There's more, but I'm bored.
Boru
