God more than likely does not exist

You can't prove that God (or the demon in front of your screen) doesn't exist. What if I said there was a demon in between the screen your reading for this debate and yourself, would you believe it ? could you disprove it ? Now maybe you try to prove that a demon isn't there, you don't see it therefore that proves it is not there. Well I point out that's because it is invisible. Perhaps you get some high tech equipment and once again detect no such demon, but I claim, well that's because the demon is really good at avoiding human detection (sneaky little bugger). It goes on and on like this, no matter what you try I will always have a rationalization (read: excuse) to save the demon from being proved to not exist. Never the less we can be justified that it is at least more likely such a demon does not exist because. .. .. .1) No good reason to believe the demon exists there in the first place2) Absence of evidence where we would expect such absence of evidence if the thing did not exist3) The more and more rationalizations (without justification) that are needed to save the demon propositions from being falsified. Likewise I will argue that we are justified to believe that God as defined more likely does not exist in part for those same in principle justifications. A general concept of God vs a more specific concept of God (as defined in this debate)Even if it was proven that at least God exists in at least some GENERALIZED way as a supernatural person think about all the possibilities that fall under such a generalization for example. .. .. .. .. .. God - Very powerful (but not all powerful), all knowing, loving, most of the time morally good (but not always)God - All powerful, knows almost everything (but not everything), some times loving, sometimes cruel, sometimes indifferent. God - Very powerful, knows some things, doesn't know others, sometimes unjust. God - All powerful, All knowing, unloving, just. God - (insert any and all combinations here)As such anyone who wants to claim that God exists and that God is - An omniscient, omnipotent, loving, morally good, just, supernatural, personal being without justification becomes more and more likely to not exist due to it's more and more specificity. This is my first argument in support of the proposition that God (as defined) is more likely to not exist. Occams RazorAny inaction on Gods part is compatible with the claim that God exists and God choose not to act. But such inaction on Gods part is also compatible with the claim God does not exist and thus did not act. Occams razors is explained as follows. .. ""Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor from William of Ockham (c. 1287 " 1347), and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. " [1]All things being equal occams razor enjoins us to go with the proposition that God does not exist in light of Gods inaction. Divine Silence Part 1) God neither confirms nor deniesChances are you have already encountered in your life time assertions about what God wants. Whether it be keeping slaves, denying same sex marriage, stoning homosexuals to death, denying contraception, denying women to drive, forcing women to cover up nearly all of their body, the torture/killing of heretics/non believers etc etc all of this and more has being justified on the basis of being the will of God and failure to comply puts one at risk of divine punishment, either in this life or the next. This is serious, in some cases this can be a matter of life and death. Your fellow human beings are quite free to pronounce loudly & often what God wants taking comfort in the knowledge that God will not contradict them and as such are free to exploit such a fact of this world. Such divine silence is what we would expect if such a God did not exist. As such I submit this as another reason to support that it is more likely that God does not exist. Divine Silence Part 2) Lack of comfort and understanding in time of needA loving father will seek to comfort their child if they must go through some painful medical treatment. If they can't make the child understand they will at least seek to comfort the child. Many people like holocaust survivors have reported an absence of Gods comfort,presence or understanding when going through such horror. This is what we would expect to be the case if God did not exist. Prayer healing has not being shown to work. There are heaps of people who will testify that they prayed to God, and God responded to that prayer by healing them, from that itchy spot on the back of their neck to stage 4 lung cancer and everything in between, But this on it's own is just confirmation bias [2]No one can show (even with all the incentive in the world to do so, cause they want to justify they have the right religious belief/God) that praying to their God, or to God in a particular way is any more effective than praying to a light bulb. This is what we would expect to be the case if God did not exist. God & the best possible world (or not)Consider the following argument. .. .1) If God exists then we live in the best possible world2) More likely we don't live in the best possible worldC) Therefore more likely God does not existWikipedia explains Leibniz reasoning as such. .. "Leibniz' solution casts God as a kind of "optimizer" of the collection of all original possibilities: Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good"in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds. " [3]Yes you can assume that God exists and therefore the world we live in must be the best possible world, but that is just begging the question for the existence of God in the first place and not questioning if we live in the best possible world. Consider a (rough) fact pointed out by Sam Harris. .. "9 million children die every year before they reach the age of five. .. That's 24 thousand a day, a thousand an hour 17 or so a minute. That means before I can get to the end of this sentence some few children likely will have died in terror and agony" [4]You can retreat to the mere possibility, but what about plausibility and reasonableness. Is it plausible and or reasonable too believe that we live in the best possible world ? I submit that it is not. As such since it is more likely that we DON'T live in the best possible world ergo it is more likely that God does not exist. Moral paralysisIf God exists then unnecessary suffering does NOT exist because any and all suffering only happens if and only if God permits it. Also the suffering that God permits only happens if it is necessary to achieve a greater good. If we did believe that all suffering was necessary for achieving a greater good it would lead to moral paralysis as we would not seek to prevent suffering least we prevent the greater good that was dependent on said suffering. Every time we stop or seek to prevent some suffering like stopping a child rape or giving medical treatment we do so on the assumption that such suffering is unnecessary and thus our acts that do or seek to stop such instances of suffering have not come at the cost or will not come at the cost of preventing a greater good. But this only makes sense if you operate on the presupposition that unnecessary suffering does exist and thus God does not. I look forward to Cons reply. Sources [1] . http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] . http://en.wikipedia.org...[3] . http://en.wikipedia.org...[4]