RE: Atheism worships a dead god.
September 3, 2010 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2010 at 5:35 pm by Paul the Human.)
The idea that 'You can't prove a negative' is a common misconception and a fallacy... and one that we atheists are guilty of more than probably anyone. Simply apply the idea to things other than the existence of god(s) and it quickly becomes clear that you can, indeed, prove a negative assertion to be true. When it comes to the existence of god(s), however, the claim of existence cannot be proven nor disproved. This is due to the lack of a single and coherent definition of what a 'god' is. In spite of this, when one looks at the question with intellectual honesty, it can be said that there is a preponderance of evidence to suggest that the existence of god(s) is astronomically unlikely and completely unnecessary.