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To: SkyDancer

Since a negative can’t be proved, you’re asking the impossible, then preening when it isn’t done. Fail.


12 posted on 08/05/2015 12:02:54 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: sparklite2

They state there is no G-d. Then they say for me to prove G-d exists. Doesn’t work that way. They have to state why they’re an atheist. They can’t just come out with a statement and I have to accept it.


19 posted on 08/05/2015 12:47:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: sparklite2
Since a negative can’t be proved, you’re asking the impossible, then preening when it isn’t done. Fail.

That's a myth. Negatives can be proven, and are, all the time.

"Some swans are not white" is a negative. Proof: Present a black swan. QED.

What cannot be proven is a universal negative: say, "No swan is red." To prove it true, you would have to have exhaustive knowledge of all swans. The best we can do is an inductive argument: based on all the available evidence, no red swan is known to exist. (But who's to say there isn't one paddling around a forgotten pond somewhere in Paraguay?)

Of course, positive atheism asserts exactly such a universal negative.

28 posted on 08/05/2015 2:00:40 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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