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A negative can be disproven. But, in fact the request to prove that there is no God is not even a request to disprove a negative. It is a request to make a case in the absence of enough evidence. I believe the point of the thread was to make people realize that there is not enough evidence to disprove the existence of God so people ought to stop saying there is no God until an exhaustive search has been completed.Various silly notions can have strong cases made against them. For example if one proves that Santa Clause was created by a particular person at a particular time that would prove that Santa, is not real. Despite the fact that it is generally agreed that Santa is imaginary I don't believe we have the evidence to show that Santa was created by an author of some story, but it would be the way to disprove Santa. But if someone found the manuscript of the first story of Santa that would be pretty good proof that he is imaginary - i.e. it is possible to prove that Santa is imaginary. For example, an analogous figure to Santa would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And since we know for a fact that on a certain date a certain person fabricated the existence of the Spaghetti Monster we can say with a high degree of confidence that it is imaginary.If the claims for God had been made as an imaginary story we could make the same case. However, the authors of the claims for God specifically state that they are not making an imaginary story. What we commonly have is assertions that the stories of God are myths but without any evidence to support the statement.
A negative can be disproven. But, in fact the request to prove that there is no God is not even a request to disprove a negative. It is a request to make a case in the absence of enough evidence. I believe the point of the thread was to make people realize that there is not enough evidence to disprove the existence of God so people ought to stop saying there is no God until an exhaustive search has been completed.
Various silly notions can have strong cases made against them. For example if one proves that Santa Clause was created by a particular person at a particular time that would prove that Santa, is not real. Despite the fact that it is generally agreed that Santa is imaginary I don't believe we have the evidence to show that Santa was created by an author of some story, but it would be the way to disprove Santa. But if someone found the manuscript of the first story of Santa that would be pretty good proof that he is imaginary - i.e. it is possible to prove that Santa is imaginary. For example, an analogous figure to Santa would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And since we know for a fact that on a certain date a certain person fabricated the existence of the Spaghetti Monster we can say with a high degree of confidence that it is imaginary.
If the claims for God had been made as an imaginary story we could make the same case. However, the authors of the claims for God specifically state that they are not making an imaginary story. What we commonly have is assertions that the stories of God are myths but without any evidence to support the statement.
