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Re: Is There A God?
I would like you to specifically reference a time ANYONE in this thread has claimed that atheism is right because there are more. There aren't even more. LowDown made the claim that because there are more believers god must exist. I pointed out that the number of believers of something does not effect the truth of it, and that those billions of believers all have radically different religions with completely contradictory accounts. They can not be pooled together to form a super-majority.
I fully accept that it's POSSIBLE for god to exist, and when someone, anyone, provides even the slightest shred of evidence to prove that, I will update my world view accordingly. Until then, I reject the claims of believers like I reject the claims of someone telling me that space unicorns exist.
I will agree that burden of proof for something lies on the person making the positive claim. One can't prove something doesn't exist. Plenty of things have existed long before man could ever prove they did. Anything that is outside the realm of provable fact lies in the realm of belief. And that only insofar as human observation. Human observation doesn't always reflect reality (ex. heliocentric vs geocentric).
No more so than atheism trumps theism because there is more. Which was my point.
I have always been of the mind that God purposefully limits His proof of existence to a personal level. Why is beyond me but then again by definition God is beyond my full comprehension at this stage. My arguments will never be that God can be proven, at least not at this stage of human existence. I have always argued that simply because He can't be proven, doesn't mean that He doesn't exist. Nor do I hold that every detail in the Bible is free from human error.
I would like you to specifically reference a time ANYONE in this thread has claimed that atheism is right because there are more. There aren't even more. LowDown made the claim that because there are more believers god must exist. I pointed out that the number of believers of something does not effect the truth of it, and that those billions of believers all have radically different religions with completely contradictory accounts. They can not be pooled together to form a super-majority.
I fully accept that it's POSSIBLE for god to exist, and when someone, anyone, provides even the slightest shred of evidence to prove that, I will update my world view accordingly. Until then, I reject the claims of believers like I reject the claims of someone telling me that space unicorns exist.