The fact remains, that in this day and age, we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god. as far as this discussion goes, its like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg.
This in general is a very simple and ultimately naive thought process. No such fact remains at all.
Firstly you perpetrate perhaps the most common of sins in this debate bandying about with the idea 'that neither side can be definitively proven or disproven'. When attempting to discern the truth in any area, it is up to the group or person suggesting the theory to provide evidence for its feasibillity. In failure of this basic duty, it is the theorists who have failed to sufficiently prove their point, and not the group of 'sceptics'.
The onus to prove the existence OR non existence of God rests purely on religion and not atheism. This is because it is religion that is making the claim.
In any other realm of thinking this becomes very clear. When a man asks "did you know every person on earth has an invisible leprechaun that rides around on their shoulder all day," we reject his idea because there is no evidence for such a claim. In this scenario the man who believes in the invisible leprechaun is outted as a lunatic, and no such confusion or ambiguity exists because we innately understand that leprechauns are imaginary.
This is contrasted to the question of the existence of God, which possesses a certain default credibility due to both the logevity of the debate and most of all its alleged 'transcendent and unquantifiable' nature, (which allows the bypassing of the same reason and logic that makes us declare the leprechaun man crazy.)
Invisible leprechauns do not exist and everybody readily and fully accepts this despite the fact we cannot prove it to be untrue.
That's not even addressing the fact that science and atheism can
also disprove God's existence through its proposition of a hugely more viable alternative approach, with rules of nature and physics that are rigorous, reliable and testable. All those things which were once too complicated; that necessitated the existence of a God to explain, are becoming quantified and understood.
It then becomes interesting to wonder if we will ever move so far along this path of understanding, that we will reach a point where the question of God's existence is collectively viewed through the same lens through which we see leprechauns.
