(July 28, 2017 at 11:45 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 28, 2017 at 11:27 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Is the fact that many people have prayed to god and not gotten a response evidence for atheism? Or the fact that many things that were said to be caused by the acts of gods are now shown to be wrong? Looks like there is evidence on both sides.
No. Neither is evidence that there is no God. The first is an argument from silence (a fallacy) and the second is simply a mistake or lack of knowledge on the part of a human.
The whole bible can be explained as a mistake or lack of knowledge on the part of humans.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam