Atheism 101: The Null Hypothesis  (AnticitizenX mirror)
Channel: Religion Debate
Date: 2013-07-05

How many times have you heard the claim "You can't prove God does NOT exist!" Well, we can. It's called the null hypothesis.  A reasonable person does not accept all existence claims as true until disproven.  They don't accept them, until proven.
  
It utterly baffles me how so many hack philosophers can't seem to wrap their brains around this concept. When a guy comes to you with a fantastic claim of incredible nonsense, you don't have to take him completely at his word! It is okay to demand evidence, and it is okay to declare his claims "false" when he fails to provide any. The reason we get to say that "God does not exist" is the exact same reason we get to say "Bigfoot does not exist."  The default position is not to believe all claims until disproven.  It is to disbelieve until proven  It's the *default assumption* until proven otherwise.

But what's worse is how Christians can't even define a God concept with remotely coherent properties. The very idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent deity is about as meaningful as a frustrated green that angrily sleeps inside of a square circle. I don't have to disprove the existence of things that can't even coalesce into meaningful concepts!

The Null Hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis#Principle

Read the script here: http://casualentropy.blogspot.com/2012/08/part-3-null-hypothesis.html

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