Czernobog
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I don't know. But to suggest that such a being exists, and created a race of beings whose reason, and logic would require such evidence to acknowledge its existence, while simultaneously threatening to punish that race for refusing to not only acknowledge its existence, but also worship it further suggests a barbaric, unreasonable entity, doesn't it?"There is no proof" is not synonymous with "There is no proof possible". The former is only a statement of current finding, and allows for the possibility of such proof being discovered at a later date, and therefore allows for the falsification of the negative assertion, "There is no God". The latter, however, implies that the question has already been settled, as no evidence will ever be possible to discover to falsify the negative premise, and a negative premise that cannot be falsified is accepted as accurate. So. Is it your position that no such evidence will ever be possible?This is off the topic of my OP, but okay. So you are saying that objective evidence for the existence of deity is impossible to discover? If that is the case, then the premise is fact, not opinion. Otherwise, such evidence would be possible. See, you can't say that the premise is not falsifiable, because no evidence is possible to falsify it, then present it as unreasonable. And you can't use the same argument with the position of theism. You can' make a positive claim, and then insist that it is correct because it can't be falsified. A positive claim must have affirmative evidence, to be proven. A negative claim need only to have it demonstrated that it cannot be falsified to be accepted as true.So, I've a hypothetical for you guys that I am curious about. I maintain that my atheism is a premise, not a conclusion. When I say, "God does not exist", I am presenting a falsifiable premise that is only awaiting objective, verifiable evidence.
Now, with that in mind, let us say that evidence is discovered tomorrow. Now only do we have absolute proof of the existence of God, but we even have absolute evidence that the Christian version of God exists. Could you just "fall in line"? Could you just "become" a Christian.
See, I don't think I could. If we suddenly had the objective evidence necessary to prove that the Christian God exists, that would mean that we, also, have to accept that the Bible is not just a book of stories, and is, in fact, an accurate record of the nature of that God. And that record indicates that he drown the entire race, as far as man understood it to be at that time. This God demanded his favourites to commit genocide...twice. This God chose one person, and intentionally made his life miserable, just for sport (a wager with Lucifer). In short, the Bible portrays a God that is a sociopath.
I don't know that, even with irrefutable evidence that the Christian God exists, that I could become a follower of that God.
I have always said that, given evidence,. I would change my position from atheism to one of theism. However, if I learned that the Christian God was the "God of Creation", I don't think that theism would be a respectful one. I think my position would have to be, "Okay. God exists...and he's a dick," and would accept whatever consequences taking that position would engender.
So, what about you guys? If we suddenly had evidence that Christians had it right all along, could you just become "Good Little Christians"?
How is your position falsifiable? That's the problem with any religion, and yes atheism is a religion, NONE of them are falsifiable. That's why science and religion are different fields of study. Science deals with the temporal world, and religion deals with the spiritual world. The problems arise when any religion decides it wishes to impose its philosophy on the temporal world to those who don't want to hear it.
So. are you saying that evidence to falsify the claim is impossible to ever discover?
Not off topic at all. You claimed atheism is falsifiable in your OP and I addressed that inaccuracy, that is all I addressed. There is no proof or evidence either for, or against a God. Period. It is an unknowable question. That's how the concept of faith originated.
How do you prove the existence of a being that is all knowing, all powerful, and all seeing, when that entity decides it doesn't want you to be able to see it?
Get real.