Here's the deal. I do not say that God does not exist, but I THINK that God does not exist with the same confidence that I THINK ghosts, vampires, werewolves, poltergeists, ice monsters and other things that go bump in the night DO NOT EXIST. This certainty approaches the limit of ZERO, just like you would use it in mathematics to divide by zero. Gods are as close to zero as you can get.

Without evidence, there is zero reason to behave as though its a possibility. present evidence of existence, and I will consider it, until then its mental masturbation.

There is very much we cannot be certain. We can't be absolutely certain that the external world exists, because all any of us are ever aware of is the contents of our own minds. Much of what most of us believe we know with absolute certainty, is in fact only very probably or likely to be true.

We are constantly being compelled to form conclusions which are in fact only highly probable. But a very high likelihood of correctness is often good enough for practical purposes.

When you say “there is always the possibility” I don’t believe that at all. Sometimes there is no possibility. Humans made it up, at its best it’s literature and at its worst it’s a governmental tool for control. It is possible to be certain. Religion is nothing but deception and Gods are nothing more than fantasy. However, if it would stay out of science and government I wouldn’t care what people believe, but it doesn’t.

As an ex Catholic I got tired waiting for the Bible God to help me with injustice. She - He as God never never have the courtesy to answer my calls. What I learned in my life is that human has the power of choice between being good or evil.

Well, I don't really care if there is one or not. I do not believe that it is so, especially a god from the bible.

I believe it's simply commitment to our disbelief rather than an expression of mathematical probabilities. I always wonder about people with various percentages on their profiles like "Huh? Guess they just can't commit yet?". lol

But I put the exisitence of god(s) right up there with the existence of unicorns. And I'd be way less pissed off if a unicorn were found.

God would have a shit ton to answer for. Wouldn't they?

There is no evidence of any gods. Given the history of man, the length and scope of our research both scientific and philosophical, the likelihood that there would be a god or gods AND no observable evidence of same is statistically insignificant. So, while there is a chance and, as Mr Nye says, my mind can be changed by evidence, the likelihood of deity is so low that it’s not really worth our time. So, okay not 100%, but 99.99999% seems a ridiculous thing to base one’s life on.

What is also amusing is that people who are the most convinced their preferred g_d exists are also full certain that people believing in other g_ds are fools or doomed to eternal hellfire.

I think that few such people actually exist. And I do think that it is wise to be a little sceptical about everything including doubt. But while I can not disprove the existence of god in some form, there are some things which I feel confident can not exist, because they are self contradictory. One such being the biblical god.

Then why don't we still believe in Santa Claus. Easter Bunny, or Tooth Fairy. God has the Bible and Santa has The Night Before Christmas. It's a first hand account of seeing Santa.
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I am 100% certain that god does not exist.

being open doesn't mean believing. if i had to reserve a little space in my brain for the possibility of the existence of a god for which there is absolutely no evidence, then i would have to reserve a little space in there for santa claus, the tooth fairy and trump's heart. there is just no evidence for any of that, the same amount of no-evidence as there is of a god. do you need proof that your spaghetti hasn't been poisoned? you don't even think about it. you cook it, you eat it. every little silly thing doesn't need proof. lack of evidence and lack of reasonability can add up to enough certainly to make uncertainty statistically insignificant. my lack of beiief in any gods is secure enough that if a god did appear to me i would call on mental health experts before submitting to it.

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Just as I am positive there is not an invisible dinosaur in the room with me.

Ridiculous notions are ridiculous notions.

Gods are ridiculous notions from the minds of petty people.

Are you 100% certain the sun will rise tomorrow? Are you certain you can not jump to Saskatchewan? It’s possible that we are about to get knocked out of orbit and our rotation halted so there will be no sunrise. It’s entirely within the realm of known physics that a wind of perfect force could carry you to Saskatchewan the next time you jump. Are you really certain that you can’t jump there? If you’re talking about a .00000000000001 chance that something might happen as a valid reason to accept its possibility then no one can be sure if a silent god like being exists. I think that’s ludicrous though. You absolutely do not have to pretend bunnies might lay eggs because you are not sure of anything 100%.

I also don’t believe that I know everything...nor do I see a time that I will know ‘all!’ But, even that I can’t be absolutely sure about!

For me, it's simply a matter of statistical analysis. Take any field of study, theology included, and include all subsets and specializations and you can clearly see that every single field has shown some sort of advancement in their particular area of expertise... except theology within the last twenty years (one generation). Now, with that in mind, let's extend the timeline to one century ( five generations), and it becomes clear that every legitimate field of study has made leaps and bounds of advancements... except theology. And, when you expand the timeline to that of a millennium (fifty generations), the statistics are astronomical and almost overflowing with advancements... except theology. Double the timeline again... same thing, and on and on and on... In the entire existence of human recorded history, theology has yet to produce a single solitary piece of circumstantial evidence to support their theory that any sort of anything supernatural exists, let alone that supports such an outlandish claim as an omnipotent being that goes around creating universes exists. But, that isn't all. When combined with the fact that every other field of study has turned up zero evidences, even by mistake, to support their theory... that is what I consider "Conclusive".

Anyone claiming anything about god, positive or negative, first has to define what they mean by god. When I say I’m 100% sure that god doesn’t exist, I mean with the caveat that, more specifically: no god described by humanity’s religions so far exists, because they all contain enough logical inconsistencies to be impossible. Omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence and infinite grace or any sort of good will toward humanity can’t possibly exist together in one entity with the amount of evil that is left unchecked to operate in the world. If god were all those things, people would get what was coming to them a lot more often than not. I also don’t believe in free will in a true sense because everything we see scientifically playing out so far about our biology and brain chemistry points to an often unfortunate pattern of determinism. If god is the one designing and determining it, he’s either entirely incompetent or intentionally sadistic more than half the time.

I’m an agnostic atheist. Agnostic describes what I know and atheist describes what I believe. I 100% don’t believe in any god I’ve ever heard described by mankind’s institutions, and the things I do or might believe in like love, or spinoza’s “god” I feel can’t rightly be defined as gods in the same sense of deism or monotheism. I freely admit the gaps in my knowledge. The closest thing to a god that I can imagine possibly existing is a programmer designing an ancestor simulation that we might be a digital part of, or if aliens ran a zoological experiment to give intelligence to apes. Those “gods” might have a small probability of existing, but that’s more than any traditional thing called god can say. If you define god as any mono or polytheistic deity mankind has described to date, I’m 100% sure there is none.

I am open to being proven wrong, but the god has got a lot of explaining to do!

I have no reason to believe there is a god and truly give it no thought. I don't care either way. Changes nothing about how I live my life.

I agree with you except that negative assertions are as easily proven as positive ones. All proofs are based on assumptions and definitions however. How do you define God?

It should not be a matter of proof or disproof. The job at hand is to find out whether or not something exists. Before we begin we need to decide what is a “thing” and what “existence” means. According to modern physics those are not easy decisions.

My brain is tired already—I quit. I don’t even know what I am myself.

No one is 100% certain of anything. They may say they are or they conflate knowledge with 100% certainty but its an illusion. If you get riggt down to it there is nothing we can know for 100% certainty. Even the laws of logic and cogito ergo sum are axiomatic. Knowledge comes down to degrees of certainty and changes with new evidence. 60 uears ago we knew Newtonian physics was true and it got us to the moon but now we know relativity and that has changed the model.

So I am certain no gods exist. Much like I am certain no faeries vampires or dragons exist.

I am 100% certain I exist.....just as certain that uni-corns, shape shifters, leprechauns, and gods, do not.....have they ever??....now that, I'm agnostic about....though of all them...gods are the ones I'm most doubtfull about ever existing

Could some sort of "gods" exist? If the answer to that question is ever "yes" we will certainly find that such beings have nothing to do with any of our "holy books" as well as find that the beings did not want to have any interaction with us. This negates the entire question to ideas coming out of our "holy books" coupled up with wanting to know where we came from. In a lame way that makes it a legitimate question but I see no way that it has a positive answer.

It is human nature to want to know things. Religion falls into the category of experience where others just keep making it up.

I am 100% certain there is no god or supreme being exactly as I am 100% cartain that 1+1=2. Now if somebody brings proof and evidence that 1+1 is not two, or that there is a god out there, well then and only then I will change my mind.

I am 100% certain that santa claus, the easter bunny and gods do not exist.