(December 28, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Yadayadayada Wrote: Hello, I am hoping someone can explain the atheist viewpoint to me on the validity and probability of God's existence.
Most atheists will claim that the facts show the concept of a God to be so utterly unlikely as to be considered impossible.
But, this is not what the facts show at all.
The theory of Evolution does not explain the origin of life, nor can it explain the existence of life from the first organic cell onward.
How does natural selection explain the eye, for example? How can atheists claim that complex organs like the eye could have evolved, when everything we know about the eye says that it is useless unless all the components are in place at the same time.
As for reptile-mammal transition evidence, where is it in "evidence"?
What are the actual mechanics that achieve it? Not speculation, actual. Not variation in a genus [which evolutionists cling to as being evolution]. Biological changes where a living entity can be observed to be changing into something different, breaching the barriers of its DNA.
For reptiles to become mammals, that breach must have happened. So, someone please show where reptiles are in a state of doing so today - where that transition is taking place.
The facts show that what is overwhelmingly in evidence is what the Bible itself says, that like begets like, and we all rely on that to occur in all facets of life, from growing/eating fruit and vegetables through to human/animal procreation.
It seems that the evidence supports the concept of God, rather than the atheistic claim that "God probably doesn't exist".
If you want someone here to explain evolution to you, you're probably in the wrong place... unless there's a biologist on the forums here that I'm not aware of.
I'm not one to say that there certainly is no god. I just don't see why people think that a god is necessary. Sure, maybe there is some ultimate being that created everything that we don't yet understand and can't even observe... But I just don't see the need for that explanation. I am willing to accept that we simply don't know everything yet. Maybe we never will know everything. And that's fine.
Or maybe there is no god and everything came about through completely natural processes that we don't yet understand. Maybe the big bang, as we see it, is actually just a neuron firing information inside the brain of a cosmic entity we don't even realize we're inside of. Why not go with that explanation? I mean why cling to the god explanation? It makes no fucking sense. I'm completely comfortable with simply admitting, "I don't know" and stopping there.
What I am almost completely certain of, however, is that your god of the bible, yahweh, does not exist. And I say that with confidence. Is there something out there? Maybe. I don't believe in it and I live my life as if it doesn't exist anyway, but sure, maybe there is some creator out there.
But the christian god? Fuck no. That shit is a fairy tale.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
