(July 5, 2013 at 12:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You can't prove that there are no invisible pink unicorns drinking margaritas at a Tiajuana Bar on Mardi Gras, either. What do you suppose the probabilities are, though?
About the same. The unicorns sound like a heck of a lot more fun, though.
Just to expand on my earlier comment-- sometimes questions like that in the OP are best answered in as short and direct a manner as possible. It's not as if we haven't been challenged to "prove god does not exist" many times on forums like this. And the simple fact is that we can't prove it. But I think that theists sometimes presume that my inability to disprove god is somehow my problem. And it isn't.
If he really does exist, god is free to reveal himself to me in a direct and unambiguous manner any time it pleases him. And if it doesn't please him, I can no longer be bothered to give a shit. If he isn't interested in proving that he exists, I'm too busy browsing the comment section on Youtube to help him with that.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
