RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 15, 2017 at 9:16 pm
(March 15, 2017 at 9:14 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote:(March 15, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: No thanks.
First of all, I am not a geologist. I'm a lowly network engineer.
They've been talked to death. The fact that you might be able to come up with some ad hoc rationalization you get off some apologetic site, in order to explain them away, is meaningless.
Not to mention, that even though the Bible gets some things right, does not negate the fact that it gets many things wrong. And that is the problem.
I actually did not think you would take the cowards way out; many of your conversations here are well mannered and insightful. I will not offer refutations or rationalization to what you have to offer. I am genuinely interested in hard archaeological inaccuracies you have to offer.
I decided to post some anyway.
Read the last couple of pages by other posters, and me.
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.
