Friday 17 May 2013

The GOD Debate's Current Status

At this point in time the debate, about the existence of God, has come to a standstill; so far the debate has wound up at a position where it supports soft atheism, as the most rational position to take, on the matter of God's existence. Many arguments have been raised, from both the theist and atheist sides. A lot of them have been refuted and rejected, so there are really only a handful of arguments you'll need to brush up on, to get up to date with the debate on the existence of God.

1. As of now God is outside the domains of human interrogation, therefore it is impossible to prove or disprove his, her or it's existence. This means that neither the atheists nor theist side can rationally move to a gnostic position. Gnostic positions would be a definite belief in God's existence for the theists, and Hard Atheism for atheists. Assuming this much, individuals should now come to the conclusion that the God's existences has a 50/50 percent chance of being true, since God can either exist or not exist.


2. God doesn't get any special exceptions over other entities, whose existence, similarly to God's, cannot also be proven. Therefore God is simply another entity whose existence cannot be proven. Therefore the probability of God's existence must be whatever the probability of other entities, whose existence cannot be proven, is.
Here are lists of entities whose existence cannot be proven:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures

Remember you cannot disprove the existence of any of these entities, similarly to how atheists cannot disprove the existence of God. It is also irrational to discard the existence of any of these entities, simply because of the lack of evidence that supports their existence. This is because similarly to God, these entities may also exist.

This means that the conclusion must be that the probability of the existence of God must be relatively low, at least as low as the existence of all the other entities. Actually the probability of the existence of all the other entities would higher than the probability of God's existence. This is simply because all the other entities are a lot more natural than God; this means that they may be a product of the practically observed and confirmed process of evolution, where as it would be a lot less likely that God was a  product of evolution. If the probability of the existence of God is relatively low than the probability for the non existence of God must be relatively high; this justifies the assumption that there is no God, because the probability of his/her/it's existence is too low to acknowledge.

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