RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 19, 2015 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2015 at 9:58 am by goodwithoutgod.)
(January 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm)bob96 Wrote:(January 14, 2015 at 6:42 pm)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: Every second, vast numbers of virtual particle pairs come into existence and mutually destroy each other. What has been called collectively, the quantum foam. Where do they come from? There is a vast sea of energy out there in the Universe that is drawn on to create these particles. Where did that come from? Where does this supposed God come from that religious theologians prattle about?
IF God exists, then it is possible that He created the energy from nothing. By definition, God can do this. It is outside the realm of science, and of our understanding. It is the realm of faith - believing without evidence.
IF God does not exist, then this energy could not have come from nowhere. To believe that this energy did come from nothing requires faith - believing without evidence.
Logically, it would require greater faith to believe that something came from nothing, than to believe that someone created the something - despite there being no empirical evidence for either.
Therefore, atheists have more faith than theists - in this respect.
IF Spongebob exists, then it is possible that He created the energy from nothing. By definition, Spongebob can do this. It is outside the realm of reality, and of our understanding. It is the realm of delusion - believing without evidence.
IF Spongebob does not exist, then we don't know where this energy could have come from; thus Spongebob must exist. To believe that this energy just HAD to come from a magical being requires faith in disingenuous strawman assertions - without evidence.
Logically, it would require greater faith to believe that something came from a magical unseen being...like Spongebob, than to believe that chance and circumstance allowed the something to become more than it first was - despite there being no empirical evidence for Spongebob or any other magical being.
Therefore, theists have more faith in fabricated delusion than atheists, who prefer to live in the real world, and do not need to cling to fabricated delusions because they are too scared to acknowledge the finality of death, and are comfortable saying, we don't have all the answers to life - in this respect.
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John 20:30-31 - "but these are written that ye might believe that jesus is the christ, the son of god; and that believing ye might have life through his name".......just about says it all right there, let me paraphrase; "we are making up these stories to help people believe...the story."
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.