Letters to the Editor
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Evidence
Your asking me to do your job.
No, I'm asking you to provide evidence for something you yourself asserted, namely that there (and I'm quoting you here) "has never been a time when god didn't exist in the mind of man." That's quite a claim. Do you have anything to back that up? And which god? Or are they all the same? Is Isis the same as Ganesh? Don't the differences matter? And if they don't matter, why don't they matter?
The vast majority of mankind believes in God.
The vast majority of mankind believes in *which* god or gods? Since many are mutually exclusive, that makes the vast majority of mankind atheists, at least when it comes to another man's god.
Whoops!
Outside of history and personal experience it can't be proven beyond doubt.
If god isn't capable of leaving any trace of physical evidence about, how powerful can this god be? Even bacteria can manage that much.
On the other hand you insist there is no God but you provide no proof, not even evidence, just your belief, your faith that there is no God.
So, if I assert that there's an invisible pink unicorn flying around your living room, and that it wants you to sacrifice a child to its magnificent glory, is it an act of faith to deny the existence of the IPU and refuse to commit such a despicable act?
Theists are the ones asserting there's a god or god out there, in spite of a pronounced inability to come up with any evidence an entity like this could exist. As an atheist, I'm simply saying there's no evidence to support this assertion, so it's baseless. I'm confident none of these god entities exist in the same way you're presumably confident there's no invisible pink unicorn flying around your living room demanding child sacrifice.