RE: Theist ➤ Why ☠ Atheism is Evil Compared to ✠ Christianity
November 20, 2016 at 6:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2016 at 7:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 20, 2016 at 12:15 pm)The Joker Wrote: You are rolling in my rotary wheel dilemma. True atheism is just one's status of belief concerning gods, nothing more, nothing less. My point is, how those beliefs effects the individual.You may be suffering from an overinflated assessment of your rhetorical skills, a cartoonish exageration of atheism, or both.
Quote:Again, 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".I've never heard any atheist point to that as the reason that they don't believe, and it certainly has nothing to do with why I don;t believe. I've been an atheist, for example, for far longer than I've known of modern synth and before any god argument was ever presented to me.
That said, there is no "getting deep" into a cosmological argument, there is no cosmological argument.
Quote:If it can be proven that we didn't come here by an accident by mindless dumb evolution without meaning or purpose,then we obviously know God did it,
That would be a non-sequitur, not an argument. See above. It's also not a strictly factual description of the evolutionary history which lead to us or many of our associated species. Again, we didn't "come here", at all. Further, selection can be and often is mindful, intelligent, meaningful, and purposeful. We call that sort of selection artificial selection when we breed livestock and crops, for example, and "dating" when we do it to each other. So, if those are your pet peeves with evolution, what really grinds your gears, take heart...you can have it all. No need to deny reality and invoke fairies in order to get them.
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