(June 29, 2011 at 1:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Consider the amount of time most people have invested in confirming their religious views. It would be unreasonable to assume that there would be some sort of atheist nuclear bomb that would immediately and permanently erase all of that in a single statement.
To qoute Shakespeare "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak"
It's okay by the way to say "I don't know" when someone asks you that....you could even follow it with "and neither do you"
It's an argument from ignorance.
Lol i know..no one knows what happened before the big bang but the difference between us and them is that they can't accept that ignorance of pre universe times. They want the answer on the spot...I think when it comes down to it people are afraid of death and what happens after. They desperately want an afterlife. But who would want something eternal like that anyway, you'd eventually get bored. Again they keep saying well "what happens if we die and go to hell." How could a hell or heaven exist anyway?! It's painstakingly a man made concept to satisfy or fear of mortality.

"God didn't make us in his image, we made him, her, and its in ours"