The fact that there is no evidence of God existing is even more proof that he does, as it proves that he is a supernatural being.
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So that means Santa exists? The Easter Bunny? Invisible Pink Unicorn? Flying Spaghetti Monster?
I'm so confused about who I'm supposed to worship...... There's so many, and according to your logic, they're all real!
Well when in doubt, go to your roots.
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GET ME MY BEARSKINS, I'M GOING BESERKER
VALHALLA I AM COMING
Right, because he's omnipotent, he completely removes all irrefutable evidence of his existence.
GOD IS SUCH A WACKY PRANKSTER!
Wow. That's a new one.
Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, "Some gardener must tend this plot." The other disagrees, "There is no gardener." So they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. "But perhaps he is an invisible gardener." So they set up a barbed-wire fence. They electrify it. They patrol with bloodhounds ... But no shrieks ever suggest that some intruder has received a shock. No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber. The bloodhounds never give cry. Yet still the Believer is not convinced. "But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible, to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which he loves." At last the Skeptic despairs, "But what remains of your original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even from no gardener at all?"
Antony Flew
*headdesk*
You prove nothing.
See Also:
Celestial Teapot.
Remarkably, I've actually had to say this before...
Just because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, that does not mean it must therefore be evidence of non-absence!
In which case, RetSickle, I shall expect you to fiercely oppose any evidence for the existence of any god, as it is clearly the absence of such that we should be focusing on.
Although actually seeing god would count as eye witness evidence, which could cause problems.
"RETSICKLE MY FAITHFUL SERVANT, I APPEAR BEFORE YOU WITH A GRAVE MESSAGE THAT YOU MUST IMPART TO ALL MANKIND-"
"Lalalalalalala! Can't hear you! Lalalalalalala! Can't see you! Lalalalalala! If I can't see you, you DO exist!"
"IT'S TIMES LIKE THIS THAT I WISH I'D GIVEN THE DINOSAURS A SECOND CHANCE."
Okay, there's a simpler way to deal with this (not involving a clue-bat with nails through it and a lengthy spell in jail).
"The fact that there is no evidence of God existing is even more proof that he does, as it proves that he is a supernatural being."
But if there being no evidence for God is proof of God, then there is evidence for God, the lack of evidence. So, since there is evidence for God after all, that proves he isn't supernatural otherwise there wouldn't be the evidence of there not being any evidence.
If this logic were true, then no wonder god's such a cranky bastard - he must be pissed off at having to share his space with all that other unprovable, made-up shit that must therefore also exist. I bet every time he turns round, he falls over an invisible pink unicorn or bangs his head on a sock monster or something, and the queue for the celestial bathroom in the morning must be fucking colossal, what with all the other gods and monsters crowding the ethereal plains.
The fact that no one has ever seen the Invisible Pink Unicorn (pbuhhh) is even more proof that She exists, as it is empirical verification of one of Her essential attributes, namely, invisibility. Shout glory!
Makes me wish I had made a career of being a trial lawyer. For the state of course. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the fact that there is no evidence that the defendant committed this dastardly crime is irrefutable proof that he committed it. And I ask you, as reasonable people, to find accordingly."
David B said: "But if there being no evidence for God is proof of God, then there is evidence for God, the lack of evidence. So, since there is evidence for God after all, that proves he isn't supernatural otherwise there wouldn't be the evidence of there not being any evidence."
I think you just made my brainmeats go all explody.
This reminds me of the Hugh Mearns poem:
"As I was walking up the stair.
So the fact that there is no evidence of God's existence means that it is evidence that he does exist. But if there is evidence that he does exist then your original statement is false.
It's almost a re-wording of the Barber's Paradox.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox
In short, you fail.
So, according to your brilliant logic, Isis, Thor and Kukulkhan are real, too. Cool.
What are wollygombers? Are they anything like tokoloshies?
Since nobody can see those either, I presume that is proof of their existence? Hmmm...better get me some bricks for my bed!
From RetSickle, it's stupid. From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though, this stuff was funny:
God: "I refuse to prove my existence, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
qfdjof;voifnordaosdivga;
CRITICAL ERROR PLEASE RESTART BRAIN I LIEK PIE
asdfnvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv;
fuckithurtsthebadlogichurtshurtshurts
I need to go lie down.
Why does this remind me of the WW2 internment camps debacle? ("That the Japanese haven't committed sabotage proves that they're planning to.")
Cyclical reasoning at its...should that be zenith or nadir?
If you can't find any evidence of something then it must exist!
nobody ever called you clever in your life, doesn't mean you are.
The government is watching us all too... they have chips implanted in your brain and black helicopters constantly flying overhead at night to oversee us.
The fact we can't detect any of us just shows that they've done it so long they've perfected it to point you can never tell they're doing it.
DUN DUN DUHHH.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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