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Originally Posted by snappydog
I'm not asking anyone to prove anything does exist, I understand that the existence of a deity is something which has to be taken without proof. My question was directed towards proving whether something does NOT exist, which... Well, I figure that if you can't prove it does exist, you have to at least be able to reason that it doesn't not exist, so to speak.
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It's the same thing. The existence of God is theory, not fact--or at least not fact as we know it. Proof implies factual knowledge, and thus proof on either side of the religious debate (there is a God/there isn't) would be the final word on the matter.
The reasons we cannot prove the existence of a higher power are the same reasons we cannot prove the absence of one: we just don't know. And so instead we believe based on faith alone.