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A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
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A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
Let’s say I drop a penny on the floor fifty times to demonstrate the law of gravity.
Agnostic: How do you know it won’t fly into the air if you drop it one more time?
Theist: My god can make the penny fly into the air the next time you drop it. But don’t actually try it. Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.
Deist: Yes, there’s something making that penny drop.

Now, what might an atheist say?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
"Gravity sucks."

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
This particular atheist would say, 'I'M not going to be the one to sweep up all those pennies.'

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 Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
I don't know the answer to your riddle but if I could I would give you another rep for interesting threads. Smile

-Teresa
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
Gravity always wins.

Or maybe

Gravity: It's the law.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.

-Homer Simpson
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
I think an atheist would say "Sorry not a physicist  "  but even if the pennies floated up that would not disprove gravity. And even if it did why must we turn to unnatural forces to explain it?
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
Well, I do know what god is interested in, because it's pretty well demonstrated:

SHOW ME THE MONEY

one penny

SHOW ME THE MONEY

god is omnipresent, omnibenevolent, omniscient etc:

BUT HE IS REALLY BAD WITH MONEY.

RIP George Carlin.

god fails to be useful once more.
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
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"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
(July 2, 2017 at 1:22 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: I think an atheist would say "Sorry not a physicist  "  but even if the pennies floated up that would not disprove gravity. And even if it did why must we turn to unnatural forces to explain it?

Yeh but...Helicopters:;
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
I don't believe any god or god's exist. Therefore man came about through natural processes and crafted the penny.
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