Why don\'t we believe? (Religion)

by broken_cynic , Thursday, August 04, 2011, 02:15 (4859 days ago) @ DragonsHeart

Well, you could counter that by presenting evidence of the guitar... or god. But no one has any (objective) evidence for god, which is where your analogy completely breaks down.-Evidence doesn't generally lend itself to proving negatives. How would you provide evidence that dragons don't exist? The best you can do is demonstrate that they are a concept that comes from fiction and myth, but you have the difficulty of countering the fact that in those writings they are treated as real things and in many cases it seems the author may well have fully believed in them. The same goes for particular gods. We know enough about the politics and the human aspect of Bible's origins that it becomes silly to pretend divine inspiration. (A big reason why seminaries are infamous for producing atheists.)-Thus the burden of proof lies with the positive assertion.