(September 26, 2010 at 11:58 am)Jaysyn Wrote: 1.) You can't prove a negative.Did you actually read the article at that link? It actually contains several counter-arguments to the statement "You can't prove a negative", which is false and rightly so.
I'm not sure when the atheist community started reciting it like a mantra, but I do wish they'd stop. You can prove negatives; sometimes it is very hard to do so, sometimes it is very easy.
Hard: Proving there are no pins in a football stadium (or other large area).
Easy: Proving there are no square circles.
The first is hard because you need to look at the entire football stadium to see if there are any pins. The second is easy because a circle cannot have a square shape as an attribute; it is by definition circular, and therefore cannot also be square. One could disprove God by coming up with contradicting attributes (the omniscient / omnipotence paradox is an attempt at this).
