If we don't see it, through direct evidence or inference, then it is not there.
For example, I can infer the existence of life elsewhere in the universe because life has developed on Earth. There is a statistical chance that similar conditions exist elsewhere. I can even infer that life elsewhere might be superior to humans, just as humans are superior to most other species on Earth. But there is not sufficient reason to believe such life would be godlike.
There is in particular no reason to infer the existence of a supernatural god. There is no evidence of nonbiological life, non-solid-phase life, or life that exists outside the physical constraints of the universe.
Off Topic » in reply to Not seeing something doesn't mean it is not there.
Actually, I think it does.
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- Genesis in terms of physics
- You might want to go to one of the sources that does this
- Observations.
- Please don't do this...
- I don't follow that reasoning
- You follow the rational way.
- Nobody's perfect
- There's a big difference between institutionalizing a belief system...
- There is no god. (n/t)
- re: I'm sure you believe and have faith that it is so. (n/t)
- There is man.
- She summed it up far more eloquently than I did below.
- Imagining something doesn't make it real. (n/t)
- We don't know that for certain.
- There is no god. (n/t)
- There's a big difference between institutionalizing a belief system...
- Nobody's perfect
- You follow the rational way.
- re: Thank you Mary Ann for that wonderful reply.
- Religion and truth (or some facsimile thereof)
- The knowable
- I think along the same lines as Johannes here.
- Quite so
- A comment worthy of engraving on Stone.
- I don't follow that reasoning
