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Why is atheism impossible to prove?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    It has impossible to prove atheism because you would have to know everything. Since they do know everything they cannot prove atheism. It is hard to prove a negative. Most would say they are not completely sure there is a God and say there is a chance that God could be true.

  • 1 decade ago

    False! Atheism is just as easy to prove as '2' is an Arabic number! Atheism, being the denouncing of any god as a literal entity, is all ready proof in itself!

    Source(s): Denny Crane...
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You do not know the Definition of Atheism or you would not be asking this stupid question.

    In Atheism there is NOTHING to prove.

    Atheism is just a belief nothing else. Atheists do not believe in God. That's it, nothing complicated about that.

  • MR.QA
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    cause you have to look everywhere at all time, not just in the physical space, in past and future, and that's just not possible.

    it's possible to prove a negative. for example, if someone claim that there is no unicorn in this house and we look and no unicorn, then that's sufficient proof of a negative is true. similarly, you can show that there is no dog in this house... you look and no dog, so the original position is true even if it's a negative claim. suppose someone finds an unicorn or a dog, then the original claim is false and you have proved it.

    so suppose god appears in front of everybody then atheism would be proven false. if we were somehow able to see everything and in all times and found no god and we aren't our self is god, the you've prove atheism is true.

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  • logic
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Because it's impossible to prove a negative.

    You can't prove unicorns or the flying spaghetti monster aren't real either.

    But it's not a terribly unreasonable position to say that they don't exist either.

    Absence of evidence is, in the sciences, evidence of absence. If you want to show something to be true, give me a good reason.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    First, people who don't think in any variety of deity exist. i'm considered one of them, subsequently Atheism exists! 2nd, Proving the life of God is purely "puzzling" while you're making the presumption that he exists. If God does exists, proving his/her/its life could be undemanding, in spite of the undeniable fact that it nevertheless hasn't been accomplished, inspite of the style of unfounded assertions made by potential of theists. third, Proving something does not exist is impossible. This has been an standard scientific theory for a while, simply by fact technological know-how (and any rational reality seeker) knows that absence of evidence isn't evidence for absence. that's why the burden of evidence lies with the guy or group making the declare, subsequently, Theists. it is likewise why this is often understood that with out evidence FOR the life of a few thing, this is held that it does not (probably) exist! Fourth, your assertion that the "project" of proving Gods life relies upon on the "receptivity" of the questioner is ridiculous, yet regrettably actual contained while it comes to theists. there isn't any evidence for God, yet simply by fact theists are predisposed to believing in God, they're going to settle for the slightest piece of evidence, no rely how tenuous, circumstantial or fictional, as absolute evidence. this is psychological dishonesty at its worst. ultimately, your assertion that criticizing the effects of non secular theory on human beings is so a ways as this is going to circulate, I clearly desire you're incorrect. faith is a stifling and unsafe impression on the form of humanity. i've got self assurance all and sundry has the excellent to have self assurance what they choose, yet those human beings who prefer our fellow guy to think of and behave rationally have the excellent to visual exhibit unit while a man or woman or communities ideals are divisive, prejudicial, bigoted, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc, and carry them to blame for those ideals. perhaps faith is purely no longer extinguished interior the fast or medium time era, in spite of the undeniable fact that it may be considered simply by fact the superstitious ******** that's, this is followers taken care of like the sociopaths they're, and mainstream religions relegated to a pair dark web site of background as an unlucky financial disaster of humanity'ss background.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Atheism needs no proof. That burden lies on those who claim the Invisible Man is real. The fact that they cannot do it proves atheism.

    Source(s): Logic 101
  • I don't care.

    Impossible to prove or not, I'm an atheist and that's that, nothing you can say is going to change that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because it requires physcists to do things like disperse atoms to demonstrate humans can to work of gods. physcists can also do experiment with copper plates with electrons so maybe similar with atoms and stop genicidiares as per u.n. charter requisites. you in film spatacus spatacus said the gods did not intervene. physcists could have used atoms to power paratroopers plane or built oil fueled plane and dropped paratroopers ferom greek u.n. arrangement near spartacus village or city.

    Source(s): science history. suggestions. sparacus series t.v. 2004 or 10
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You cannot prove a negative. Their stance is basically "God does not exist". The only way to definitely prove that would be to have universal knowledge and to have investigated the entire universe.

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