Tuesday, 19 March 2024

God is real. Atheists how can you prove me wrong?

 Atheists cannot prove you wrong because there is a general understanding in the scientific community that you can’t prove a negative.

But before you go shouting “gotcha! “and start doing some kind of victory dance, you need to understand why this principle exists.

For example, prove to me that the Greek gods don’t exist.

You might say ”I’ve climbed Mt. Olympus and there are no gods there”.

But to this I say, “of course you couldn’t see them because they are invisible”.

And you might say “there were people everywhere, even if they were invisible people would bump into them”.

But I respond “no, sorry, That wouldn’t happen because they are in a parallel dimension”.

“So how do you know they are there? “

“They speak to ne with telepathy and I have magic powers that let me access their world through a magic wardrobe”.

At this point, you are probably assuming I’m completely off my rocker but the truth is that I can keep improvising explanations ad infinitum. They may seem stupid to you but that is just a judgement on your part. The truth is, my claims are unfalsifiable. They cannot really be tested because I move the goal posts constantly.

You can never actually prove the Olympian pantheon doesn’t exist but you can certainly convlude that it is not worth your while to care. To all intents and purposes, all the available evidence indicates the Olympians do not exist.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Now, when it comes to other beliefs we might hold, the principle is exactly the same. TThere is no falsifiable evidence to justify assuming God exists, so most atheists follow up with the not unreasonable conclusion that all gods are equally imaginary.

 

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