RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 10, 2013 at 7:30 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2013 at 7:35 am by Theo Zacharias.)
(August 10, 2013 at 7:14 am)Maelstrom Wrote:(August 10, 2013 at 7:05 am)Theo Zacharias Wrote: you need an evidence of its non-existence
If something does not exist, it simply does not exist.
Agree, but what's the point?
You seem to say that God does not exist because it does not exist.
(August 10, 2013 at 7:14 am)Maelstrom Wrote: No proof is required that something does not exist. Proof is only required if someone is making the claim that something exists for which there is no proof to support its existence. You continue with your fallacious burden of proof shifting.
I have said many time that I do not claim that I know God exists.
Do you claim to know that God does not exist? Please answer this.
(August 10, 2013 at 7:14 am)Maelstrom Wrote:(August 10, 2013 at 7:05 am)Theo Zacharias Wrote: I agree that there is no evidence or proof that God exists at the moment.
Not just at the moment. Tens of thousands of years of human evolution have yet to provide proof of any deity's existence.
And so is extraterrestrial intelligence, and yet many scientist working on SETI projects believe in its existence.
Btw, you haven't response to my statement before about several scientist being nuts because believing something without evidence. Do you think they are nuts?
Please answer this. Do you believe that graviton exist? There is no proof of its existence so you should not believe that graviton exist, right? But string theory predicts that graviton exists. So you should not believe in string theory either? But several physicist believes in string theory. Do you think they are nuts?
(August 10, 2013 at 7:24 am)Maelstrom Wrote:(August 10, 2013 at 7:21 am)Theo Zacharias Wrote: You can choose to *try* to believe in something.
Which is precisely the problem with people who claim they know something exists without the proof to back it up. Anyone can convince himself that anything is true, so long as that individual forgoes with reality.
There is no argumentation on your statement. Anybody can easily state the opposite thing (without any argument), something like this:
"Which is precisely the problem with people who claim they know something does not exist without the proof to back it up. Anyone can convince himself that anything is false, so long as that individual forgoes with reality."
Also, you use straw man argument many time. I never claim I know God exists and yet, you said, like in above, that I claim this.
