Argument for the Non-Existence of God (No. 4)

From Demand to Prove a Negative

P 1 )  The theist makes the demand that the non-theist prove that his or her deity of choice does not exist (when the non-theist asks for proof of their deity of choice's existence).

P 2 )  The theist is forced to shift the burden to the non-theist by this demand because he/she implicitly has neither any empirical proof nor a valid, cogent argument with positive reasons to demonstrate that their deity of choice exists.

Conclusion:   The theists' god therefore does not exist. 

[The non-theist might also ask the theist about the extent of their study/research into evidence of their god's existence, because if their study is quite broad, it gives them even less reason to make the demand, since their studies should allow them to be able to reasonably demonstrate their god's existence even if through logical argumentation.]


This argument is similar to the Argument for the Non-Existence of God (No. 1), but is more specific concerning the theists' method of argumentation (asking atheist to prove a negative).