So desperately are many believers clinging to their comforting delusions (despite those persistently nagging doubts) that they will try to find any shred of reassurance by challenging freethinkers to, contrary to logic, prove the negative. Religion demands perfect evidence from science but no evidence from itself.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I remember asking questions about certain religious tenants and was told that I must have faith, however, faith was a gift. I heard a priest speaking about the existence of god. He asked the congregation, "How do you know your father is your father." The answer was because you were told so. The same is true concerning the existence of God. What?
Freeofcancer
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Yes, well now we have DNA testing, but if the Buybull story were true we would all be descended from Adam and it would all be exactly the same.
It is nothing but myth that you can’t prove a negative. Every assertion can be couched in negative terms. Google it.
God can not be defined, and if is silly to even talk about a proof one way or the other. Proof simply has no meaning at that level of awareness.
WilliamFleming
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June 7, 2018
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I wish you would give me an example of a proof of a negative then. I maintain that there can be no proof because somewhere in the vast multiverse anything could be true. We humans have to work with objective evidence to prove things. So the best we can say is that some things are so extremely unlikely that there is no rational reason to believe them. The doG of the buybull is one of these things.
@DaveSchumacher Here is one of many websites that explains it all:
“You can’t prove a negative” is itself a negative assertion. Probably what you mean is that you can’t prove something exists. That is only true part of the time. Some things can be proven to exist.
I agree though that is is absurd to demand a proof that there is no God. There are various concepts of God, but in the end, God can not be defined. I suspect that our concept of proof simply has no application. God is a subject way over our heads and no one understands what they are talking about when they speak of God.
That's very good. But deep down they still know.
Religion is cognitive dissonance - big time.
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