The main reason I'm an atheist

[Redbeard The Pink]

Pinky.  

The clown show is over so now stop pretending that you know the real meaning of theory.
Theory come from the Greek θεωρία, meaning ...... looking at, viewing, beholding .........blah blah blah....
Practice on the other hand means put the theory into practice.
If the practice works according to the theory then the theory is correct.
Unfortunately the real meaning has been vandalized so now it could means just everything other than the original meaning.
All those guys that came up with theories did not put theories into practice to see whether they were true or not so these theories stay unsolved and therefore we can say that they are all guessing.

You keep jumping right to the etymology of these words...etymology is not the only source of meaning in language. Yes, etymology is useful for seeing how words relate to each other and how they changed in meaning and pronunciation over time, but the actual definition of the word is what establishes its current meaning.


And that brings us back to "theory." A theory, to a layman like you, is just a hypothesis or guess. In science, the word "theory" is literally the highest form an explanation can take. Theories are not facts; they are made up of literally piles of facts, and the most reasonable available explanation for those facts.


I'm sure we've done this before, but somebody besides you might have a few brain cells, so for their benefit:


Using your "logic," gravity is also "just a theory." The body of knowledge pertaining to facts about gravity and the best explanation for those facts is referred to by scientists as the Theory of Gravity. In fact, we have a MUCH better understanding and larger body of information about what evolution is and how and why it works than we do about Gravity, and yet creationists accept gravity as if it's a fact, even though it's "just a theory."


A theory is literally the highest form of science. You don't prove theories; you prove things so that they can become theories.

Not at all Pinky.
Even a clown has got consciousness (hard to believe but that is true).
Humans got consciousness, animals too, plants too.
As far as matter is a bit difficult to see consciousness in them but that is something that you will learn at a later stage in your mental development.
Evidence doesn't come easy.
You got to expand your consciousness to see how everything works.
As you feed your body also the universal body need to be fed.
Most atheists have a lot of guessing regarding this issue.
They think that the universe can run itself so there is no need for God to run it.
I never seen so far anything that doesn't need to be fed.
That would lead to starvation.
But the universe doesn't starve.
After billion of years is still very healthy.

You do know the Universe will eventually die, right? Unless we learn something new, as far as we can tell the Universe will eventually expand until the particles lose all their energy and are too far apart to interact (or something like that), and when that happens there will be pretty much nothing going on.


There is no evidence that the Universe requires a god. "I don't see how it could exist without somebody feeding it" is an argument from ignorance...still...

You never thought about it Pinky, did you?  

I think everyone here can tell which one of us thinks about things and which one of us doesn't.