RE: Debate: God Exists
February 23, 2017 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 11:07 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I personally think that all debates about the existence of God should be like this:
Atheist: Provide evidence for God.
Theist: Okay here you go.
Atheist: That's not evidence and hence there's nothing to refute.
END.
Instead debates always end up in the atheist trying to refute the theist's arguments when arguments aren't evidence anyway. Or trying to debunk false evidence when if the evidence is invalid and the theist has failed to meet the burden of proof then the atheist has already won.
The atheist doesn't have to argue against the existence of God at all. That's the whole point. The burden of proof is on the theist who affirms that God exists not the atheist who simply says "Prove it".
The atheist doesn't have to prove a negative.
Atheist: Provide evidence for God.
Theist: Okay here you go.
Atheist: That's not evidence and hence there's nothing to refute.
END.
Instead debates always end up in the atheist trying to refute the theist's arguments when arguments aren't evidence anyway. Or trying to debunk false evidence when if the evidence is invalid and the theist has failed to meet the burden of proof then the atheist has already won.
The atheist doesn't have to argue against the existence of God at all. That's the whole point. The burden of proof is on the theist who affirms that God exists not the atheist who simply says "Prove it".
The atheist doesn't have to prove a negative.
