A nontheist sees the God question as insoluble and irrelevant. Nontheists approach the God question from an empirical position, which has so
far shown them that it has been impossible to either prove, or disprove the existence of God. A Nontheist considers the god hypothesis as dealing with matters that are unfalsifiable, therefore placing the question outside the realm of
human knowledge. Nontheists see the question of debating God's existence as irrelevant as debating the existence of leprechauns, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Invisible Pink
Unicorn, Invisible Garage Dragons, the Flying Spaghetti
Monster, etc.
Theist: God exists.
Nontheist: Prove it.
Theist: Well, just look around you. God created everything you see. See? That proves God!
Nontheist: I see...and how do you know that everything wasn’
t created by an invisible purple Gnome named Wilbur who lives on the dark side of the moon, therefore proving Wilbur?
Theist: Because fill-in-the-blank-holy-
book says that God did it!
Nontheist: Just how do you know your
book’s claims are reliable though?
Theist: Because my
book is self-authenicating, it says right here that it was written by God.
Nontheist: Using a
book that claims self authentication commits the logical fallacy of circular reasoning. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Assertions that are unfalsifiable and immune from disproof aren’t worth much. How do you know your
book wasn’t written by the Invisible Pink
Unicorn?