Whether God's Existence Can Be Proven XII

Once again, after the distinctions made in the previous post, it is still necessary to distinguish, as was done before, between what a human being is capable of and what a human being does. Thus, the fourth proposition which one might have in mind when one says, "it's impossible to prove that God exists;" namely, that "no human being up to the present moment has been able to prove that God exists," is not equivalent to the fifth possible proposition; namely, that, "no human being up to the present moment has proven that God exists." As with the relationship between the second and third propositions, the fifth proposition does not logically entail the fourth. In other words, it does not follow that no human being up to the present moment has been able to prove that God exists, even if no human being up to the present moment has proven that God exists. Thus, it is difficult to know what evidence could be offered that no human being up to the present moment was able to prove that God exists; for that no one did it is not sufficient evidence.

For this reason, many people might find the fifth proposition - that "no human being up to the present moment has proven that God exists" - a reasonable position to hold believing it to be fairly obvious that at least up to the present moment no one has actually proven that God exists. They will, in all likelihood, take the widespread presence of disagreement and disbelief about God's existence to be undisputed evidence for this.

But is this belief warranted?