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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Science can’t prove or disprove God.

That’s mainstream philosophy of science, not religion.

Science studies natural phenomena.

God, by definition, is a metaphysical claim, not a testable object.

No scientific proof that God exists
No scientific proof that God does not exist
No experiment that can settle it either way

That’s because God is a metaphysical claim, not a physical object inside the universe that can be measured.

God definitely exists” → faith statement

God definitely does not exist” → also a belief statement

Both go beyond what can be proven.

The most intellectually honest positions acknowledge uncertainty.[/quote]

No.

“There is insufficient evidence to believe a god exists, so I do not believe one exists” is both factually correct and intellectually honest, yet it is absolute.[/quote]

That’s a valid personal conclusion from empirical standards, but calling it absolute about reality goes beyond what science can claim.

[b]Your statement is absolute about your belief, not about reality. It’s an honest agnostic-atheist position based on empirical standards, but science itself doesn’t adjudicate metaphysical existence claims—so it doesn’t “settle” the question either way.[/b][/quote]

It's about what you BELIEVE and WHY.  That's all that matters here.  Science doesn't believe in Russell's teapot orbiting the sun either, but they can't prove it is not there.

The fact that I don't believe in god is 100% factual and absolutely true, and demonstrable.  The fact that you do believe in god  is 100% factual and absolutely true, and demonstrable.

Those facts are "settled".

Another demonstrable fact is that you have the non-believer's position on all other views for which there is no evidence, including all gods other than your own.  Just this one single thing you exempt with special pleading.[/quote]

People are allowed to find one story convincing and others not. Human reasoning isn’t a math equation.

Belief in God is compared to trust in a person, not a hypothesis. You don’t demand peer-reviewed proof to love someone.

People don’t evaluate beliefs in isolation.
One belief fits into a whole network of meaning, culture, upbringing, and lived experience. Humans don’t believe the way laboratories do — and they’re not supposed to.

People are allowed to hold personal beliefs that are meaningful and valid to them, without needing to justify them to outsiders or apply them universally.

I don’t believe most religious claims, and I don’t need to.

But my disbelief doesn’t invalidate anyone else’s beliefs, nor does their belief require my approval.

Beliefs can be personally meaningful without being universally binding.

Human beings have unique minds and histories. Because of that, freedom of belief — including belief, disbelief, or uncertainty — is not a defect in reasoning but an essential expression of human freedom.

Disagreeing with a belief doesn’t negate it, and holding one doesn’t obligate universal defense. Plurality is not a problem to be solved; it’s a condition to be respected.[/quote]

There aren't any actual supernatural forces so belief/gods exist only in one's mind as a concept, not a real thing. 
[/quote]

You are asserting philosophical naturalism: everything that exists is part of the natural world, and anything “supernatural” is a mental or cultural construct rather than a real entity.

The philosophical position behind your statement aligns with: Atheism (specifically metaphysical atheism)
-Naturalism
-Materialism
-Often scientific realism

The philosophy rejects:
-Theism
-Deism
-Dualism
-Supernaturalism

You think:
That the only things that count as “real” are things that exist independently of the human mind.

That assumption itself is philosophical, not scientifically provable. It’s a logically valid statement, but not logically sound.

Valid = if the premises were true, the conclusion would follow.

Sound = valid and the premises are actually true.

The statement is essentially:
1.	Premise: There are no supernatural forces that exist in reality.
2.	Conclusion: Therefore, gods exist only as concepts in human minds, not as real entities.

Validity

If premise (1) is true, then the conclusion does follow.

So the reasoning structure is valid.

A sound argument requires the premise to be proven or justified.

The problem is:

“There are no supernatural forces” is not a demonstrated fact — it is itself a philosophical claim.

That premise cannot be empirically verified or falsified:
-You cannot observe “the absence of all supernatural entities”
-Science can study nature, not rule out everything beyond nature.

So the argument assumes the very thing it is trying to conclude, which makes it question-begging.

The statement relies on an unstated premise:

“Only things that exist within the natural, observable world are real.”

That is philosophical naturalism, not logic or science.

If someone rejects that assumption, the argument collapses.

What your argument actually is

It is not a proof.

[b]It is: a restatement of a worldview definition disguised as a conclusion
[/b]
In philosophy, this is called assertion, not demonstration.

So your statement is best understood as:

“Given my worldview, gods are only concepts.”

—not as an objective logical conclusion.[/quote]

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