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Originally Posted by sweevo
Again: by showing that our sun is not a first generation star, we are disproving the existence of any gods who created the sun before any other stars.
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That disproves the stated attributes, not the existence of the deity.
If someone says of a woman, "she wore a blood-red dress, like a Solitaire rose," and you know Solitaires are orange, that doesn't mean she didn't exist nor that she didn't wear a dress--it may mean the description got scrambled somehow.
If someone says of a deity, "she created the sun from her hearthfire, and the sparks from it flew off and became the stars," knowing that many other stars predate the sun doesn't disprove her existence; it just means she obviously didn't make sun-and-stars as described.
Disproving the literal accuracy of myth and folklore doesn't disprove the existence of the deities in those stories.