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

[Delicate]

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.

Certainly not on the basis of scientific evidence.

Well, perhaps with invisible pink unicorns, depending on precisely what you have in mind.