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To: RipSawyer

They want us to prove a positive. What’s wrong with asking them to prove there is no G-d? They state they don’t believe in G-d, so, give me your reasons.


18 posted on 08/05/2015 12:45:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

I gave you my reasons, apparently you don’t understand the point of my post. Let me put it bluntly, NO ONE CAN PROVE A NEGATIVE!!!!!! When you ask someone to prove the negative you are admitting that you have no proof of the positive! The only way conceivable to prove a negative is to prove a corresponding positive which makes the negative case. For example, suppose I were to be accused of committing a murder that recently occurred in my neighborhood and I had to prove I DID NOT do it. I would have to be able to prove that the murder occurred during a certain limited time period AND prove that I was somewhere else at the time which is proving a positive. I cannot prove the negative except by proving a positive. Can you grasp that? The burden of proof is always on the positive. Have you figured out how to prove that those fairies I mentioned don’t exist? I have zero reason to believe that they do but I have no idea how to prove that they don’t. If you intend to allow me to get away with putting the burden on you to prove they don’t exist I think you have a problem. Remember that Islam claims to believe in a God who commands that they strike the heads off of Christians who refuse to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax. Are you going to allow them to put the burden on you to prove that their God does not exist and does not command that your head be cut off?


30 posted on 08/05/2015 2:05:53 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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