Alien Question for Atheists

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah. It's the same exact attitude as some religious folks take when they act like nothing could ever convince them that something about their religious beliefs is wrong.

It depends what I'm supposed to be open to being convinced of. If I am going to be be convinced of something I want it to first be coherent. I'm perfectly okay with some sort of supreme being being possible and open to evidence of that. But a being outside of the universe and outside of space and time? I'm not sure what that even means. But even if we are to accept that it's just something outside of nature whatever that is... I'm fine with the idea of something indescribable later coming to be known but when you talk about something that is outside of the reality we live in then how can we possibly have evidence of it? Evidence only exists in the natural world... so even if such a being intervenes in the natural world how could we know that any of it existed outside of the natural world if that is definitionally beyond our reach? It seems to me like we can only possibly have evidence of the supernatural by actually stepping into the supernatural realm. And even then, how would we know we were in it and not just deceived by a supreme being in the natural realm? Even if we die in this world it could have all been a simulation run by a powerful alien being in the natural world. And then what appeared to be an afterlife could be a further simulation ran by such a being.

It seems to me that there's no way to possibly have evidence of anything supernatural because evidence is definitionally natural.