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☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
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RE: The Theistic Response to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
(November 19, 2016 at 11:47 am)The Joker Wrote: I appreciate your point, but I am having trouble accepting that common argument from atheists, when getting deep into the cosmological argument "It doesn't mean God did it, so I lack belief in God".

This is False dilemma, The problem I see.

If it can be proven that we didn't come here by an accident by mindless dumb products of evolution without meaning or purpose, then we obviously know God did it, But the atheist may say "BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN GOD DID IT Just because we didn't come here by an accident through chance of evolution!" Well in that case if you prefer not to use the term "God," you may simply call him/it: "The Extremely Powerful, Uncaused, Necessarily Existing, Non-Contingent, Non-Physical, Immaterial, Eternal Being Who Created the Entire Universe...And Everything In It." With a meaning and a purpose to life.



So, I see you opened another thread with much the same misunderstandings in it. You were corrected in that one too. So, from now on, should I expect you will not pay attention to corrections for any of your strawman arguments? Please let me know so I don't have to waste my time responding to you.

To repeat, in hopes it will sink in, if evolution were to be proved wrong tomorrow, that would not mean a god is responsible for our existence. It would just mean that the process that lead to our existence would be unknown. It would also not mean that positing a god would become the next most likely explanation.

If you want to posit that a god is the most likely explanation for our existence, you know what you have to do? Provide demonstrable, falsifiable evidence, and reasoned argument to support your hypothesis. Disproving a natural explanation for any observation, does not mean the supernatural becomes the better explanation, by default.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: The Theistic Response to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it" - by Simon Moon - November 19, 2016 at 12:57 pm

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