Well That’s Just Silly!

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I have begun to notice a trend occurring recently, whether it be intentional or not I am unsure. It seems to be that whenever I bring up the concept of the flying spaghetti monster, invisible pink unicorns or Bertrand’s teapot as a hypothetical to show that it is impossible to prove a negative, I keep getting the response “well that’s just silly!”. Are these people really so stupid that they missed the point entirely or is this just an attempt to derail the conversation?

To the theists out there WE KNOW IT IS SILLY! We do not genuinely believe in any of these things, we are merely using it as an allegory for God(s) to show that it is impossible to prove something doesn’t exist. In an attempt to combat this I started using Odin, Zeus, Osiris, Mithras, etc instead but I still tend to get the same response, usually with the added “of course they don’t exist”. My question then becomes how can you be so certain they don’t exist, you don’t have any evidence; unfortunately this quickly becomes a circular argument with references to the bible stating that Yahweh is the only god, and the continual demand that anything else is silly.

Unfortunately the only exit from this conversation I can see is to point out that I don’t believe in their deity (and find it equally silly) just as they don’t believe in others, and once they realise why they don’t believe in Odin they might come to understand why I don’t believe in Yahweh.

That being said; blessed be his noodly appendage

RAmen