Originally posted by Engine
To believe in an unprovable non-existence? Yes. It's unsupportable.
If you have no evidence supporting God's existence, it's best to simply say so, instead of trying to support an "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" standpoint.
Actually, I never took that position. If you look at my post which followed the one you quoted, I said the atheist and the believer, both came to a conclusion that could not be proved.
However, as I pointed out in that post, this is done all the time by people, (I would venture to say, yourself included), and it is not necessarily irrational. The only way to avoid this, is to"never" draw a conclusion about a great many things in life.
We hold many things to be true, that we have never "Seen", nor can we "Prove". The structure of the atom is a great example. You've never seen one, I've never seen one, but based on observations we have drawn conclusions about them. (There are allot of other examples of this is science.)
The origin of life is another. I would say life began some time in the past. However, I can't prove it began. Perhaps, life has simply always been. You can't prove otherwise. Even if we accept that life began sometime in the past if we use your line of reasoning, no one can ever draw a "Rational" conclusion about how life began, because we can never prove it.
So unless a person walks around refusing to every draw a conclusion (which seems irrational to me) they ultimately we accept a certain number of things as being true, without "Proof"
Best regards,
--Tachus
