RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 29, 2016 at 6:17 am
(November 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm)Catholic_LadySimon Moon Wrote: First of all, simply stating that god' has always existed, adds nothing. [b Wrote:It has no explanatory power, and creates more questions than it answers.[/b]
What sort of realm did your god exist in before he created the universe?
If existence did not exist, what was your god acting on when he created the universe? Causation requires time and space. What time and space existed for your god to cause something to exist?
What sort of leap am I taking by positing that existence always existed?
Sorry, but your tu quoque fallacy is unconvincing. Neither is your argumentum ad ignorantiam.
My bold.
Of course. But so does saying that anything in nature has somehow always existed.
Except we know the Universe exists.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
