God Is Imaginary - Proof 17

== "Proof" #17 - Think about Leprechauns ==
~~~~Many believers will say, "It is impossible for you to prove that God (Allah, Ra, Vishnu, whatever) does not exist. There is no way to prove that something does not exist."~~~~
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Since I do not make this claim and agree that it's not a valid argument, I will not respond to it.
~~~~Noah's Ark
Another imaginary thing that...we hear quite a bit about in our culture is the story of Noah and his Ark. How do we know that the Noah's Ark story is imaginary?
First, the story contains an element that is impossible. Genesis 7:20 says, "The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits." This would mean that Mt. Everest, with a height of 29,000 feet (8,850 meters) or nearly 6 miles, was covered in water. It is impossible because that water does not exist. A planet does not magically get covered in 6 miles of water, and then have the water magically disappear.~~~~
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Except that the Bible does not say the Flood covered Mt. Everest, nor do any Creation Scientists. So there is no element of what MB calls impossible, though covering Mt. Everest is more in the realm of improbable than impossible. If the highest mountains were a lot lower due to the lack of plate tectonics, which don’t start till after the Flood, and the water that covered those lower mountains then receded into places created by the newly created plates (like the Marianas Trench in the Atlantic), then his argument falls face first flat. There is a lot more to this topic, but what I have said to this point is sufficient.
~~~~ Second, there is no evidence that the event actually occurred. And a planet-wide event of this proportion would necessarily leave incontrovertible evidence behind. There would be geological evidence, archeological evidence, ice core evidence and so on. Genesis 7:21 states: "Every living thing that moved on land perished — birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind." That would leave behind massive amounts of genetic evidence in every species, as each species narrowed to a single breeding pair. ~~~~
This is simply an assertion on his part, and an ignorant one. He is either woefully and willfully ignorant of a HOST of evidence given by the various Creation Science organizations in the world or he is flat out lying about it, hoping his audience won’t go fact check him.
He also uses the man-made term "species" here rather than the Biblical "kind", either purposefully misdirecting or grossly ignorant of what he argues against.
~~~~God
If you think about it, you will realize that there is no difference between God and Leprechauns. Lots of people talk about God as though he exists, but there is no actual evidence for God's existence. And there should be, because there are many positive claims in the definition of God. For example:~~~~
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And then he rehashes old arguments I’ve already dealt with.
~~~~There is absolutely no evidence indicating that God exists. There is a tremendous amount of empirical evidence that God does not exist. For example, God is defined as a prayer-answering being, but we know with certainty that the belief in prayer is a superstition. Therefore we can conclusively say that God is imaginary.~~~~
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So he says there is a “tremendous” amount of “empirical” evidence that God does not exist, then he lists one thing. His vocabulary skills are...questionable.
~~~~Another angle
Here is a second way to look at the same question.~~~~'''
In other words, another rehash. I’m out on this ‘proof’.
In Truth and Love.