Reply #144: Not to be technical but you can't prove anything except math [View All]

[Az]

and of course brewing. Proof in the sense that you are suggesting is beyond our means. People really have to learn to stop using that word. You can show evidence and provide theories that suggest the best possible guess. But we are always open to new evidence that may overturn our theories. Thats just the nature of our ability to know things.

We cannot prove things to an absolute.

We can demonstrate that a claim is false. So while we can refute claims this does not give us the ability to prove anything positive. Thus a particular claim for the existance of god may be demonstrably false. But this does not eliminate all possible claims for god. This is simply the nature of the god of the gaps notion. Namely that god is whatever we have not figured out just yet.