(September 25, 2014 at 2:50 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Every negative claim explicitly invokes a positive one. It's not impossible to prove/disprove a negative at all. It's just irritating.
I agree; however clearing Smith of murder doesn't prove that Jones did it. The unstated implication is that a god is the positive to the naturalistic negative, when it's never been established that those are the only two options on the table. We have to account for and eliminate possibilities - such as everything we do know of the Universe's origins being incomplete and some other, deeper physics about which we can't imagine with our current level of science - before we can even entertain a binary choice.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
