Google ‘Proving the existence of God’ and up come hundreds of videos like these:

My favourite has to be the one that says it only takes 30 seconds to prove God exists and then takes over 11 minutes to do it. The A.I. summary of the online articles and blogs about the subject is, for once, right when it says God’s existence can’t be demonstrated. But that doesn’t stop those who think they can ‘prove’ it from giving it a go. Many of them take a smug swipe at atheists for not seeing the supposed scientific, philosophical and theological ‘evidence’ when it’s right in front of them. Others point out that even if they can’t demonstrate God’s existence conclusively, neither can atheists disprove it. They’re correct, but it’s incumbent on those making the claim to demonstrate it, not those who find it unconvincing to disprove it. 

Let’s imagine the scenario where this isn’t the case though. A scenario where those proposing the existence of God finally manage to present empirical, indisputable evidence that he’s really out there in the vast expanse of the lifeless universe or in a dimension hitherto imperceptible to humans. What then?

They’d have proved God in generic, ill-defined terms. They would not have demonstrated that this Being is creator of the universe, or that he(?) is remotely interested in humankind or that he listens to us or guides us or in any way involves himself in our affairs. They certainly won’t have demonstrated that he is the only God, who befriended one tribe on the Earth, 4.6 billion years after its creation and 23.4 billion years after the universe’s beginning, prompting them to create legends about him. They will not have provided any evidence that he is the one who sent Jesus to the Earth, nor that he is in some incomprehensible way Jesus himself.

Theists haven’t demonstrated a basic God, let alone one with all the characteristics they want him to have. That those who devised stories a mere 2.5 to 2 thousand years ago, claiming their God had all these characteristics, is not evidence he did nor that he even existed. Osiris, Zeus and Allah are all as likely to be accurate reflections of this nebulous God as YHWH or Jesus. And if we’re honest, we know they’re not. None of them are.

At least atheists have probability on their side.