Face-Off: Does God Exist?

Started by Sadako of Girth3 pages
Sadako of Girth Extreme Mode
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You cannot prove a negative.

You can with any sceintific blood test.

You can prove the abscence of whatever you havent got.

It just looks way more likely that the argument for there being no god is correct as it has more evidence for it.

Symmetric Chaos Fractal King

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
You can with any sceintific blood test.

You can prove the abscence of whatever you havent got.

No test is 100% effective, that's why in logic it's stated that you cannot prove a negative. You can repeat the test to an exhaustive level and then conclude there is no reason to believe you have the condition, but as I understand it you have not "proven" anything to the standards of formal logic.

Also, there's no blood test (or indeed test of any kind) for a generic "god".

Sado22 Restricted

Where do you live that this happens a lot?

it happens with lots of muslims and christians. i've lived in lots of places n Asia including middle east and far east. with muslims, they don't usually attack you if you are a muslim. otherwise they tend to leave you alone. i don't have a beard every so often you run into an "extremist" idiot who starts lecturing you on keeping a beard even though the prophet actually said it was up to the person himself. then there is the bit where i don't go to the mosque all the time. so sometimes these types just show up at your door and lecture you because they are selfrighteous dicks. VERY annoying.

the christian bit happened a lot to when I was in hong kong (of all places). some chick sitting next to me in the subway would suddenly ask me if i was a christian, shake her head sadly, hand me the brochure and start lecturing me on the graces of jesus and how i should repent and convert. VERY annoying also.

It just looks way more likely that the argument for there being no god is correct as it has more evidence for it.

such argument gets thrown out the window from day one because theists try to appeal to this mental phenomena called hope/faith while atheist don't want to have anything to do with it. hope or faith aren't something practical but are more a state of mind and a deeply personal thing.

~Sado