Austin Dacey and William Lane Craig talking about proving God does or doesn't exist. If you are familiar with this blog, you will know I think we can prove beyond reasonable doubt that there is no God just by appeal to empirical evidence (and I also think it is possible to prove there is no God by conceptual means). See The God of Eth. Incidentally, I think maybe Dacey at the beginning misses out a third kind of proof that X does not exist. He mentions: (i) conceptual proofs (ii) proofs based on looking for a thing and failing to find it (note this seems to require X be observable, which God supposedly isn't) But there is also this method: (iii) show that if there were an X, there would not be Y (Y being observable). Y is observed to exist. Therefore X does not exist. Note that (ii) takes absence of evidence to be (under certain circumstances) evidence of absence, whereas (iii) does not. My God of Eth "proof" is of the third kind. P.S. Perhaps (ii) should also incl
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