Who decided that absence of proof equals proof of absence in reference to the existence of God?
by LynfromNM on May 21st, 2006 No one decided, universally. People may decide this works for them as individuals. Some people don’t require proof; they are able to believe and be content with that. Others cannot believe — they must have proof. With reference to the existence of God, you cannot assume that a person who doesn’t believe in God arrived at that conclusion by the logic (or lack of it) that you have described. Another way that people arrive at the conclusion that there is no God is that the idea of a God doesn’t make sense to them, when they evaluate the various possible explanations for the creation of the world and their observations of the way it works. Comments Fair enough. Good answer. Report by Jodie44 on July 1st, 2006 Lyn, I mostly follow, but you lost me at the end. Observations about our world and how it works are fine, but don’t we always still have to come back to the common thread that *something* had to start from nothing, if there wasn’t a something (like a Go
