It is impossible to prove a negative. You can't prove something doesn't exist, only that it does. The burden of proof is in those claiming that God exists.
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Agreed, and that is my point. We cannot definitely state God doesn't exist because it has not yet been proven he or she does. The earth was flat until proven otherwise. Not believing there is a God is a different statement than saying there is not. People believe or not in the absence of proof.
aug 17, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It's batshit though that's the difference.
aug 17, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Nobody but a handful of dumbarses ever thought (or thinks) the Earth is flat. Sailors knew it wasn’t, and the ancients did too. No ancient belief system features a flat earth. Everyone, such as the ancient Vedic, Chinese and Arabic scholars to the people that built Stonehenge, knew it was a sphere.
aug 17, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
No woman I have ever asked can prove to me that she has a consciousness and is not just a zombie. Therefore, I do not believe it.
aug 17, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Why is the burden so one sided? That isn’t logical. Both ‘sides’ are simultaneously positive and negative - and it 100% isn’t impossible to prove a negative. But to suppose we humans currently have enough data to settle this particular question one way or another is the epitome of human arrogance.
aug 17, 2025, 5:19 pm • 4 0 • view
That is literally how science works. There’s no burden to prove a negative. Otherwise we’d have to disprove every bit of nonsense ever uttered. However since you brought it up, we do have enough data to settle it. Epstein’s General Relativity proves there can be no “God “of the Abrahamic sort.
aug 17, 2025, 7:13 pm • 3 0 • view
How does it prove that?
aug 17, 2025, 8:11 pm • 3 0 • view
E=mc2
aug 18, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
The theory of relativity itself does not, and cannot, disprove the existence of a divine being. It shows that there is a mathematical order in the universe, something that we can also see repeated in nature, here on Earth. But maybe God likes maths?
aug 18, 2025, 6:55 am • 0 0 • view
Einstein believed the problem of God was the "most difficult in the world"—a question that could not be answered "simply with yes or no". He conceded that "the problem involved is too vast for our limited minds". So it would seem even he doesn’t agree with the assertion that (E=mc2)=there is no God
aug 18, 2025, 6:57 am • 1 0 • view
This is the exact point I am asserting, that our ‘limited minds’ and equally limited viewpoint, cannot allow us to prove, or disprove, the existence of God. It only allows us to believe one way or another. So both sides of this argument rely merely on faith, and what we fee is correct.
aug 18, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
I personally do not think either side of this case can be proven, and this neither camp has the right to assert their personal belief over the other. To be a militant atheist is, in my view, equally as bad as a militant evangelists.
aug 18, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
FOR the record: I am not religious. Religion is just political control. American Christianity, and militant Islamism are both adequate proof of this. But I also do not feel any human is in a position to absolutely positively declare they understand the nature of the universe, nor ever will be.
aug 18, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
But from his work we can deduce that there is no room for an Abrahamic deity in our universe. Perhaps there are lifeforms out there we could consider "gods" because they are so far advanced compared to us. But they still play by the same universal rules that we do.
aug 18, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
And whether Einstein agrees is irrelevant. He certainly wasn't setting out to prove that there is no god and never would've positioned his theory as a god killer (he'd have been hung for it, for one).
aug 18, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, but "god(s) did it" has been the placeholder for "I actually have no idea how this works" for a long time.
aug 18, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view