When I ask for evidence of God not being real , why do Non-Beliveres never actually answer?

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"Faith," by definition, means that a person believes regardless of evidence or lack thereof. Many atheists have a problem with the idea of "believing" in something that lacks adequate scientific support. You really can't prove or disprove God or gods or deities. They can't come up with a "good" answer because there IS no good answer. It's like in statistics you come up with a "null hypothesis" - and the burden lies in disproving the null hypothesis. Lack of God is the null hypothesis (null means zero), and without enough proof to suggest that God isn't not real (ie without enough proof to suggest that he is real), we fail to reject the null hypothesis, and continue with the conclusion that God is not real. They can't prove that he's not real... but you also can't sufficiently and scientifically prove that he IS real. (Personally I choose to believe because it brings me peace, but I'm essentially agnostic because I have no way of knowing for sure either way.)...Show more

When I ask for evidence of God not being real , why do Non-Beliveres never actually answer?
Just what evidence can anyone present for none existence that is actually tangible. Nothing.
What evidence does something that is not real leave behind, nothing because there was no such evidence in the first place....Show more

Really? That's all you've gotten? You should really try hanging out with more philosophers.

Your alleged god doesn't exist because it is defined as something which contains a logical contradiction in the very definition -- omniscience and omnipotence are mutually exclusive and so cannot exist any more than a square circle or married bachelor can exist. At the very least, you have a very poor idea of what you even believe in. Secondly, whatever excuse you have to make for why your alleged god does or does not intervene in any given situation makes that god less likely than a god which does not need that excuse. Given that there is no independently verifiable instance of divine intervention, your god needs a mountain of excuses. There is virtually zero chance that any god exists and your specific god is many orders of magnitude less likely than that. It is far more likely that there are dragons, leprechauns, anal probing aliens and a sunken continent of Atlantis... But we all recognize these things are almost certainly false given the complete lack of any evidence for them beyond the wild stories of people who believe in them....Show more

"When I ask for evidence of God not being real , (sic) do Non-Beliveres (sic) never actually answer"
I am answering you and I am an unbeliever. You do NOT need evidence that god is not real. There are two reasons for this.

First, god does not exist. I suspect you're referring generically to the Christian-Jewish-Muslim god. There is no evidence for the existence of any god or other supernatural being. The lack of that evidence is itself sufficient.

Secondly, it is not possible to obtain evidence to prove something does not exist. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy do not exist. There is no need to provide evidence that they do not exist. The lack of evidence is enough. It is not possible to generate evidence that they do not exist....Show more

Personally, as an agnostic, I've never run into a situation where the existence or not of a god makes a difference. When studying the material world the assumption is always that, even if a god exists, she's not messing with the results of your experiments. Finally, if a god exists, I've seen no way to distinguish which or all of the various named ones it might be, although all seem to take offense if you pick the wrong one....Show more