Since when. Show me that God doesn't exist scientifically, or some scientific facts that would lead one to not believe in God? I'm curious to see this supposed evidence of God not existing, it must be hidden deep underground.
You got the premise wrong, besides the burden of proof thing. Science do not contradict an atheist approach to understanding. Science do not say atheism is the only way to understand our beeing. But it do lend itself to such, as it requires fewer non-founded assumptions. If one assume a god, one is out of the realm of science. And what makes it worse is, you can not prove that god. And what makes it entirely out of the science ballpark, is that you can not disprove that god. But science do not exclude a god. This is where burden of proof comes in to play, which is a big deal for me as an atheist, or rather, anti-theist. I do not have to prove your god do not exist to claim it is just a figment of your imagination. One can not prove a negative. You can not prove Santa do not exist, and I can not prove your god do not exist. However, there is no positive proof of your god, indeed of any god (and they are all different and making different claims both in details and more broader strokes, and none are compatible). So it stands to reason, though not strictly speaking impossible, any god-notion is very much implausible. That a lot of people believe in a god or more or other, make that notion no more true than believing in Santa, eventhough most kids below the age of reason will tell you different. To be honest, I think all theist religions to be just a more complex Santa belief. Some invisible sky-father punishing the bad, and by sheer coincidence, rewarding the believer, who by definition is good. Self centered feel-good egotistical solopsism. Also known as religion.
I haven't seen much to suggest his existence or non existence. Just a bunch of people saying a bunch of shit.
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If you subscribe to Popper falsifiability, as many scientists do, then a god hypothesis cannot be tested or proved false and thus exists outside the realm of science. The first thing that might pop into your head is the existence of string theory and how its theory is based on non-falsifiable claims. Indeed, we cannot physically test string theory (at this time, and perhaps not for a very long time) but mathematical physicists of course have gotten this inclination through very abstract mathematics. Dimensions in mathematics isn't as big of a deal as it may seem. So it simply comes down to nothing we've looked at implies a god. There is no god variable (which also leads to the question of what is the physical representation of god - is it a physical constant like Planck's, is Planck's constant god - then it's not an intelligent being as most theists posit).
god created us in his image. it says so in the bible. so why are our bodies so god damn fragile and susceptible to disease and viruses.
it doesn't. science contradicts a lot of specific religions, but not really the idea of a god in general.
I dont think science backs up atheism, but more so that science is in contrast with a lot of religions. I believe that man wrote religious dogma to fill in the gap that modern science now fills. Since the era of modern science and the era of religion manifestations are separated by at least 1,600 years, it makes sense that the two are now in direct controversy with each other.
Due to the thread title, I thought you were going to say how Atheism is backed by science. I was about to shit myself. It's like someone saying they have proof God exists lol. What a let down.
"Well we can't prove this yet but look at the shiny remote control we just made. This proves that there is no need for G.....that thing that doesn't exist."
What is god? God is only a word. We would need a definition because there are all kinds of different meanings for god. Personally I think of god as myself and everything else living. We are all god...we are all one. And even everything non-living is still god for we have created it so it is apart of our consciousness. So really existence is God imo.
Word. Nail on head mate, it's the theists positive assertion there is a god, an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence and the burden of proof is upon them. But try telling a theist that? It's like playing chess with a pigeon, they knock the pieces over, shit on the board and then fly home to tell their friends they won! Nice to meet a fellow anti-theist.
There is no scientific reason why god doesn't exist. but there are scientific reasons why god does exist. which means, if an atheists say that they don't believe in god because of science than because of science they must believe in god.
then you might as well just replace god with the word universe and be done with it. because he loves us tell me the reasons if you can.
So what are the scientific reasons god does exist? Because science is about making sense of the real world and so by definition cannot comment on the supernatural, metaphysics is not within it's remit so I'm all ears to hear how science can prove something it cannot measure in any way?