Isn’t it a bit extreme to assert "God does not exist"?

Question

Isn’t it a bit extreme to assert "God does not exist"? To make such a statement you would have to have complete knowledge and to have been everywhere in the universe. Maybe God dwells somewhere in the universe you don’t know of or have not been to? Is that possible?

Answer 1

Well, I don't make that statement. I have no belief in god. Whether he exist or not is an entirely other matter. I don't "believe" that he does, but that's more of an opinion.

Answer 2

Isn’t it a bit extreme to assert "Pixies do not exist"?

Isn’t it a bit extreme to assert "Pixies do not exist"? To make such a statement you would have to have complete knowledge and to have been everywhere in the universe. Maybe pixies dwell somewhere in the universe you don’t know of or have not been to? Is that possible?





Almost anything is POSSIBLE but if there is zero empirical evidence for something why BELIEVE there is a God - or pixies?

Answer 3

Sure, but then you take any assertion off the table, because we haven't been everywhere in the universe.



Big, fluffy, super intelligent bunnies might exist somewhere in the universe. Saying they don't doesn't really seem a bit extreme, however.



Still, you're correct. And because we now know how much we DON'T know, and just how big the universe is, "theory" has become the highest nomenclature in science. We know that "laws" of gravity don't work at quantum levels nor at relativistic speeds or densities. So we need theories to complete explanations.



Metaphysical speculations could be put in the same category. I don't know that some kind of uncreated creator might not be the prime mover or first cause which started our universe. However, doesn't it seem extreme to you to assert that even if there were a first cause, an unmoved mover, that this uncreated creator of a universe 14 billion light years across has special plans for our one little species on one little planet orbiting one ordinary star among trillions upon trillions? Do you further imagine it possible that this being cares about our consensual sexual behaviors, dietary habits, modes of dress, etc.? What do you think of folks who want to impose kinds of legislation upon other people merely on the basis of what they think the human incarnation of this infinitude meant when he said this or that? And isn't fairly absurb to imagine that it is so insecure as to need our worship and so petty as to convict people to eternal torment for a thought crime of disbelief?

Answer 4

Not really, depending on how you define "God."



Here's a proof about the nonexistence of Yahweh and Allah, in four paragraphs:



There's no reliable evidence for Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Thor, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshipped. There's also extensive evidence that they are all just myths, created to help soothe our fear of death, and perpetuated to subjugate the underclass into obedience.



Science has shown that there's no need for gods to explain the traditional reasons for a god -- origin of the universe, origin of life, origin of species, origin of humans, origin of morality. Science also shows us the psychological reasons that people believe in god(s).



If a god like Yahweh or Allah existed there would be explicit evidence. No such evidence exists, therefore these gods do not exist.



Yahweh and Allah are also internally and externally incongruent, and thus cannot logically exist. An omnipotent and omniscient god with free will can't exist, because it could not both know the future and change it. An omnipotent and omnibenevolent god can't exist and allow the true horrors that occur to sentient beings.



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Why should anybody believe anything from the Bible? It was written by primitive men who believed that the Earth was flat and covered by a large solid dome called the firmament.

Answer 5

isn't it slightly extreme to declare "basically the God that i've got self belief in exists and no different"? To make one in each of those fact you will possibly might desire to have finished awareness and to have been everywhere interior the universe. according to possibility different Gods stay someplace interior the universe you don’t comprehend of or have not been to? Is that a possibility? or perhaps the shortcoming of info and evidence of any god makes it plenty extra logical that God does not exist!! Isn’t it slightly extreme to declare "Unicorns do no longer exist"? or Elves, Fairies, One eyed purple alligators and so on and so on.....

Answer 6

I assert that a god does not exist

Answer 7

Is it extreme to assert leprechauns do not exist?

Is it extreme to assert fairies do not exist?

Is it extreme to assert unicorns do not exist?

Is it extreme to assert Thor or Odin do not exist?

Is it extreme to assert Aphrodite or Apollo do not exist/

Is it extreme to assert Vishnu, Wotan, Ra, do not exist?



After all pan, hercules, sirens could exist somewhere in the universe.



Is it not extreme to say they do not exist?



Is in not extreme to assert that gravity exists everywhere?

Answer 8

It's as extreme as asserting that leprechauns don't exist.

Answer 9

Isnt a bit extreme to tell people there gonna burn in hell

to tell kids there sinners.

to not give rights to certin people?

Answer 10

You are right Jim, that is what I have been telling these atheists. We can't feed them everything all the time. They have to find their own way and use their own brain. We know their brain is not that good but they have to make their own effort.

Answer 11

Of course it's not impossible.



But with no evidence and no need for a supernatural god, it is highly, highly unlikely.