We can’t prove a god exists or not. We can just evidence that it’s highly unlikely. The thing is, that humans will forever see ghosts and angels and conduct rituals in all society.
All that shows is that the mind has an incredible capacity to be plastic and produce phenomenon and emotional and physical responses when humans decide they believe something.
What I will leave you pondering is this: where are the gods of the Egyptians, the Aztecs, the Romans? Gods lose influence and power when people no longer believe in them.
If you want to know more about the phenomenon of belief, learn about the psychology of cults and read some philosophy.

The very simple truth is there is no evidence for any supernatural event or entity. James Randi had a million dollar prize offered to anyone who could provide evidence of the supernatural. Many tried, all failed.

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When you stand as a nonbeliever, you really are siding with science and against religious dogma. I cannot prove a negative and say with 100% certainty that there is no god, however I can say that there was no worldwide flood as described in Genesis 6. I cannot prove there was no intelligent designer who made all life, but I can show that with the geological record, fossil evidence and the newer field of viral paleontology that no designer was needed, evolution by natural selection explains the process wonderfully.

In the end, religion is a construct that originally was formed to explain what science had not yet. Over time it became a tool to let the few control the many. It is outdated and unneeded. Hope this is helpful.

Another thread is about books that are helpful, might read through it.

Books for beginning Atheists?

Those who assert the existence of a thing have the burden of proof. Extraordinary assertions require extraordinary proof. I have studied many arguments for "God's" existence, and none of them are convincing. Until someone comes up with solid evidence that a god exists, I shall consider all "gods" as mythological. Because of the lack of evidence for the existence of Jehovah or any of the Christian trilogy, I consider them as mythological as the Greek pantheon.

I tried praying to God, got no reply.
I ask God to revile itself, God remains hidden.
Thus I remain an Atheist.

My reasoning comes from the idea I was taught in my childhood that God is our parent. I was taught that this God did a lot of sadistic things that I was supposed to trust were for the good of his children. Oddly enough, this reasoning reflected what I was taught about my own parents, who were emotionally abusive and left me struggling with mental illness.

As an adult, I have the choice not to allow my parents to emotionally abuse me by placing healthy boundaries on myself. If I can do that with my own parents, why can't I do that with God? My reasoning is that if God's nature is what I was taught growing up, I don't want to know him or worship him, whether he's a parent or not. He's a freaking asshole and I want to stay as far away from him as possible.

On the other hand, if God is an ideal parent (since God is supposed to be ideal) then I don't even need to know he/she/it exists. A baby doesn't understand that their parent exists when they are newborn and yet the parent continues to take care of them. An ideal parent doesn't need me to constantly kowtow to them in order to "save" me.

Since I can't prove that God doesn't exist, I don't write the idea off completely. But I'm confident in rejecting the idea of the typical notion of God.

While I don't believe anyone can prove the lack of existence of God, I do believe that you can at least test the "teachings" of God that people insist are God's will for us. As a religious person, that's what I did and that's what led me to finally give up on the idea of my childhood God. When you actually turn the other cheek (instead of just condemning everyone else for not doing so like most Christians do) then you find out what the actual consequences of that action are. I did and I assure you, I did not "enter the kingdom of heaven" as my religion taught me was the consequence of that action. At least, if that was the kingdom of heaven, then no thank you. I'll take hell over that.

Do you really want the answer you need to start reading a whole lot and finding out where all of this stuff came from any now personally I'm more worried about keeping this life-form alive trying to do as little harm as possible.

Lol that’s an impossible question I believe because there’s never going to be a way to know if a “god” exists without seeing the truth.

First give me a definition of the divinity you want to know that exists or not. If this definition is internally consistent (don't contradicts itself), then we can go for the next step.
Next step, is this definition falseable? Means that does thus definition geberate some effect on the reality that can be measured and can't be explained by another simpler idea?
If it is falseable, then we start gathering data and can accept the hipothesis of existance: this entity defined on step 1 generates a sufficient disturbance that distinguish from randomness or other known phenomenon. Or reject this hypothesis.
But that's the catch, rejecting the hypothesis does not mean inexistance, means only that there is not enough disturbance that distinguish from random noise or other known effects. (if the god exists he is shy or he hides his action in a sea of randomness).
And an entity (or entities as you can come along with many definitions) that hides itself like this can't be known, and do not affect our lifes, so why bother to believe or not on them?
And this is the agnostic view.
Most of definitions of gods are self contradictory.
The few that are not can be proven false due to simple tests (you can go on top of mount Olympus and see that there is no palace of Zeus there).
A lot of them are not falseable, so impossible to test so fall on the category of "why bother?"
I didn't hear any that can be falseable and geberate results over the random possibilities. But you can try.

When I look out from our world and into the universe, I see a state of disorder, but when I look in from outside of the universe,I see a state of order. It all depends on how we see things. It doesn't matter if there is not a God; whatever nature does is for the benefit of everything. So why worry?

I searched for several years to find what you're looking for. I liked the simple philosophy of the Peace Pilgrim more than any other I looked at, but in the end there was no evidence for any of them. I consider myself an atheist, but if I ever see evidence of the supernatural, I'll believe it. Until then, I see no reason to.

Read the bible, I think? Isn’t that the one written by god? I don’t know. I think I heard something about that.

Here is a link for your consideration. You may find it interesting. You could make notations of names and dates and do further research to corroborate the information.

It could also be a "she" , but it isn't.

Didn't get the memo from Nietzsche?

If I propose something exists then I bear the burden of proof.

We can't. Which is why this site is called "Agnostic.com".

Knowing the existence of God, is unknowable in life. Those who claim to know are either fooling themselves or are trying to fool others. God may or may not exist. But if "he' does, but I doubt that" he" is anything like what western religion describes.

Just my 2¢

God is imaginary...You can pretend he is real.. just keep it to yourself.

Save yourself some time and don't bother, it's not as though there's any verifiable evidence around that would make it worth looking for this he, she or it god thing you're referring to.

Regards ippy

You can't its impossible, Simply not there.

Commit suicide.

All of nature can be explained by the known laws of physics there is no need for a God. The argument can be made that we don't know everything so God could be hidden there. That creates the God of the gaps problem. What it means is the more we learn the smaller the circle God could inhabit. But if you want an education on the topic I would check out Cosmos. It features Neil Degras Tyson and was produced by Seth MacFarlane. It takes you step by step and explains not only what we know, but how we came to know it. It is exceptionally well written and produced and will capture your imagination and broaden hour understanding.

We can’t prove a god exists or not. We can just evidence that it’s highly unlikely. The thing is, that humans will forever see ghosts and angels and conduct rituals in all society.
All that shows is that the mind has an incredible capacity to be plastic and produce phenomenon and emotional and physical responses when humans decide they believe something.
What I will leave you pondering is this: where are the gods of the Egyptians, the Aztecs, the Romans? Gods lose influence and power when people no longer believe in them.
If you want to know more about the phenomenon of belief, learn about the psychology of cults and read some philosophy.

Is there really an all-round "he" who is controlling or guiding everything?
He? You mean IT, right? and the answer to that question is still NO. So revert to being an atheist. It makes more sense than trying to convince yourself to believe in Unicorns.

When we die, I think. Not believing in God is one thing, the fact of God's existence is another.