Originally Posted by John Voorpostel

But does all this mean there is no God?

Nothing I have experienced or seen in this world, or understand about our world, our universe and its history can possibly lead to such a conclusion.


I'm not so sure of that myself. There's lots of evidence -- thousands and thousands of years of evidence -- that humans believed in deities that turned out to be non-existent. We don't believe in Zeus, or Thor, or Ra, or the great Thunderbird Spirit, do we? But once long ago, all three were considered very real, to be feared and worshipped.

The Scientific Method, in a nutshell: 1) examine evidence, 2) form a hypothesis based on evidence, 3) test that hypothesis. If the hypothesis holds up over multiple tests, it becomes theory until disproven.

Thousands of years of human belief in deities, perhaps thousands of them, that turned out to be non-existent. What does that evidence suggest? I think one likely hypothesis is simply that there are no deities, no gods or spirits, and that humans tend to assign supernatural agency to things they don't understand. When you think about it, this hypothesis has already been rigorously tested, with each god/gods that fail to be demonstrated as real.

Of course we're all gonna be super-embarrassed when we wake up in Valhalla after we die.