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A simple challenge for atheists
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A simple challenge for atheists
Imagine an alternate universe which contains a single hydrogen atom. (Lets not include dark matter or other forces in the discussion for the purpose of simplicity.) You could replace the atom with a proton, a neutron, a sub-atomic particle, or a string. The point is, it's real. It can be measured.

Now where did this hydrogen atom come from?
Was it just always there?
Did it spontaneously appear, ie. magically?
Did someone create it?

How did it come into being?
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#2
RE: A simple challenge for atheists
No idea.



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#3
RE: A simple challenge for atheists
Not a clue.

You might get more responses if you make an introduction thread and tell us a little about yourself.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
Oh noes. The big bad christer's gonna do science and prove gawd with it and then we'll all have to start going to church! Panic

Good luck with that.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
(January 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm)bob96 Wrote: How did it come into being?

Same way as Hawking radiation.

If you can make up an answer, so can I.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
If I knew the answer to that, I'd stop making guitars for a living and split my free time between dusting off my multiple Nobel Prizes and enjoying the feel of my solid rhodium toilet seat.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
(January 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm)bob96 Wrote: Imagine an alternate universe which contains a single hydrogen atom. (Lets not include dark matter or other forces in the discussion for the purpose of simplicity.) You could replace the atom with a proton, a neutron, a sub-atomic particle, or a string. The point is, it's real. It can be measured.

Now where did this hydrogen atom come from?
Was it just always there?
Did it spontaneously appear, ie. magically?
Did someone create it?

How did it come into being?

I don't know.

Neither do you.

Jerkoff
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
(January 9, 2015 at 7:39 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Oh noes. The big bad christer's gonna do science and prove gawd with it and then we'll all have to start going to church! Panic

Good luck with that.

That's a long winded no, it would have been simpler to say no, right.

GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
(January 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Not a clue.

You might get more responses if you make an introduction thread and tell us a little about yourself.

I was raised a Christian. I've struggled with issues of faith on and off over the years. It's always interesting to hear peoples view as to why they believe or don't believe in God.

I'm married with 2 boys that keep me pretty busy, and I live in Victoria Australia. 2014 was the hottest year on record (again) for Australia for three years running, yet it's the middle of Summer, and we've got the heater on because it's currently 9 degrees! (Celsius).

I admit using the word "challenge" was pretty arrogant. I should have used the word question. I'm just wondering how people can believe it possible that "something" came from "nothing" or "was always just there".
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
(January 9, 2015 at 7:53 pm)bob96 Wrote:
(January 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Not a clue.

You might get more responses if you make an introduction thread and tell us a little about yourself.

I was raised a Christian. I've struggled with issues of faith on and off over the years. It's always interesting to hear peoples view as to why they believe or don't believe in God.

I'm married with 2 boys that keep me pretty busy, and I live in Victoria Australia. 2014 was the hottest year on record (again) for Australia for three years running, yet it's the middle of Summer, and we've got the heater on because it's currently 9 degrees! (Celsius).

I admit using the word "challenge" was pretty arrogant. I should have used the word question. I'm just wondering how people can believe it possible that "something" came from "nothing" or "was always just there".

Do you believe that God 'was always just there'?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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