RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 24, 2017 at 9:24 am
(March 24, 2017 at 8:35 am)SteveII Wrote:(March 23, 2017 at 6:54 am)Esquilax Wrote: It's hard to say: religious traditions of all stripes have a long and storied history of retracting their claims away from established facts as we discover them, while at the same time pretending that's not what they've done. I could only really answer that question if I knew how stubborn humans can be when employing motivated reasoning, which is hard to gauge.
What specifically do you think that Christianity has walked-back due to a new discovery?
See if you can spot the pattern SteveII.
"What specifically do you think that Islam has walked back due to a new discovery?"
"What specifically do you think that Hebrew has walked back due to a new discovery?"
"What specifically do you think Buddhism has walked back due to a new discovery?"
"What specifically do you think Scientology has walked back do to a new discovery?"
"What specifically do you think Hinduism has walked back do to a new discovery?"....
Every religion has members whom, when they cant make a positive argument for their position, either try to attack science, and when they cant do that, they try to co opt science after the fact to point to their club.
Our species is much older than any written religion. Our planet is 4 billion years old. Our universe is 13.8 billion years old with 100s of billions of galaxies in it. Humans are not important to this planet or the universe. Our clubs and superstitions and religions we make up, are just that, made up, mere placebos humans create as false perceptions and gap answers because of our own narcissism and fear of being finite.
There are no such things as super natural beings with super powers. The only place your god exists is in your head, just as made up as Apollo and Thor. The only difference between calling something a religion and calling it mythology, is that one is dead and the other is currently still popular.
