Proving a negative

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I'm comfortable with saying there's no christian god.

I cannot however say the same for all the other personal gods that people think of. Must be billions of those.

I wouldn't attach science to my claim because science has yet to design an experiment to smoke out god. As such an experiment cannot be done. But, if people were to give all their respective personal gods specific attributes, and if any of these attributes involve interacting with our world, then there's a possibility that it can be scientifically tested and shown that their gods do not significantly interact with our world.

But none of these bothers me, and I don't worry about it.

Edit: genkaus is right, science doesn't do absolutes.

Well said. No experiment exsists to prove or disprove gods are even close to fathomable in a realistic sense. But perhaps a human's perseverence and attitude can be god-like, my brother believes he is a god, I think he's loco but he interacts with everyone he loves and affects them in a physical and spiritual way. Can you doubt he is a god without meeting him and studying him?

Perhaps you're not understanding my overarching point. This is a good example though. I don't even know what qualifies as a god to him, maybe living and breathing and being a unique person is enough to be a god. So he calls himself one. And maybe to you, someone who claims to be a god qualifies as a god, so he is one, to you. The point is, for me, if i were to take every single claim people make and study it to see if they're lying, it won't leave me with much time to do my actual research project, go to work, eat, shower, and so on. So things that concerns me, i check it out as logically and scientifically as i can. Things that don't, i ignore. Gods fall into the second category. If my sister claims to be a god though, i'll check it out, because either she's playing with words or she needs professional help.