Is there any proof that God does NOT exist?
It is true that God cannot be disproven. However, this does not mean he exists. Bertrand Russell explained it well with his teapot parable. He can make an assertion that between the Earth and Mars, there is a teapot in orbit. Provided he is careful to state that it is too small to be detected by our most powerful telescopes, nobody will be able to disprove the existence of his teapot. But this does not mean that anybody should declare that, because it cannot be disproven, there must be a teapot orbiting between the Earth and Mars! If we did this, our entire world would be swamped in fantasy. We cannot disprove the existence of Harry Potter, Platform 9 and 3 quarters, Hogwarts and St Mungos – but I don’t see anybody combing the British countryside trying to break into these magical realms. Humans have always been very curious about their origins. With the advent of science, not only human origins can be investigated but also the origins of the Earth and Universe. Obviously why the world
From Stanford Press: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/ Ontological Arguments First published Thu Feb 8, 1996; substantive revision Tue Jul 26, 2005 Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world e.g., from reason alone. In other words, ontological arguments are arguments from nothing but analytic, a priori and necessary premises to the conclusion that God exists. The first, and best-known, ontological argument was proposed by St. Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th. century A.D. In his Proslogion, St. Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived. St. Anselm reasoned that, if such a being fails to exist, then a greater being namely, a being than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists can be conceived. But this would be absurd: nothing can be greater than a being than w
