Friday, December 2, 2011

It's Much Harder to Prove God Doesn't Exist Than to Prove God Does Exist

People often say, "You can't prove there is a God." I disagree.

The truth is, it's a heck of a lot harder to prove there isn't a God. This is because the rule of absolute negatives. Making an accurate absolute negative is very difficult. Here is an example that illustrates the difficulty.

I can say, "there are dogs in Alaska" and very easily prove it. All I have to do is find one dog and my effort in proving my statement is complete. However, if I say, "there are NO dogs in Alaska", it becomes very difficult to prove. I would have to go to every square inch of Alaska to prove that statement. If I missed a single square foot, you could say, "How do you know there are no dogs in Alaska? You haven't been to every square foot!"

To prove there isn't a God, you would have to visit every part of the entire universe and beyond. If you visited half of it, it wouldn't be enough. God could easily be in the part you missed, right?

Proving the existence of God is much easier. Watch Ravi Zacharias, a world renown philosopher, explain the logic in a little over three minutes.



If you liked that clip and want to hear more, here is a 45 minute speech with some more good logic. He gets a little deep sometimes, so it may take re-listening to some parts to have a full understanding of what he is saying.

Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 1 of 6


Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 2 of 6


Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 3 of 6


Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 4 of 6


Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 5 of 6


Ravi Zacharias The Existence of God Part 6 of 6

1 comment:

  1. you start with "'You can't prove there is a God.'" I disagree."

    but your following argument does not support this statement. if i say there are no dogs in alaska and you show me one, then if we follow this through correctly when i say there is no god, you show me one, right? which would indeed prove there is god. instead your argument is about the difficulty of proving there is not god.

    but people don't need proof of things they don't believe so the argument gets you no where.

    the existence of god(s) is based on faith and i think it is kind of silly to try to "logic" it. (i only watched the first vid.)

    ~your opinionated follower :-)

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