Reply #46: In 1200(B.C E. or C.E.?, assuming C.E.) I would have staked on the world being round...

[Humanist_Activist]

mostly because I would hope I would have had the same curiosity back then and read the Grecian natural philosophers. Particularly the Greek Geographer(inventor of geography) Eratosthenes, as his discoveries are interesting.

You are largely ignorant of the scientific process, and you illustrate it in your use of the word facts. Facts themselves aren't fluid, their discovery and interpretation in the form of theories and hypothesis are. The world was round when ignorant people thought it was flat, the fact of that didn't change, just the interpretation, in this case being really idiotic. In addition you can't prove a negative at all, unless it is in itself logically inconsistent, such as I know, with 100% certainty that there is no such thing as a square circle.

And because of this I will answer the question you have, no of course the scientific method can't prove there is no god(s). Its a negative, and therefore impossible to disprove.

I have no interest in making you a believer, but I will ask you this, do you have any belief in a deity?

You claim to keep an open mind, when yours is closed, as you stated in your first paragraph, that you don't keep up with the "facts"(actually theories and hypothesis) anymore.

ON EDIT: To keep with the Earth is flat comparison you made, those who believed in it being flat literally denied what their own eyes told them and the logical conclusion of that, look out to the ocean and you see the masts of a ship well before you see the hull, because of the curvature of the Earth.