RE: Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?
March 30, 2017 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2017 at 9:02 am by Mister Agenda.)
ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote:SteveII Wrote:If you think there is not 100% established mind-boggling low probability, then you do not understand the issues. Physicists and cosmologists agree that the universe is finely tuned. Martin Rees, who wrote the list above (from the wikipedia article), has impeccable credentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees
In fact it is so well established that the multiverse theory was dreamed up to account for it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97IHcuyWI0
Sean Carroll seems to disagree completely. However, for the sake of argument, let's grant that the universe is indeed finely tuned. Even if this is the case, we're not one step closer to demonstrating that any deity exists. All we've done is show that the universe was fine-tuned by something. That something could be a million different things. What makes you think a god is a more likely fine-tuner?
If the possible universes that God could create are infinite, what are the odds that we would get a God that would choose to create this exact one out of all those possibilities?
Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Brian37 Wrote:How about you consider that your naked assertion is merely a reflection of your own human qualities?...
Xenophanes "But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
You better stop before you beclown yourself any more, Brian. You're so ignorant that you apparently don't even know that Xenophanes was a monotheist and the above quote is a critique of ancient Greek polytheism. Idiot.
Asshat. The monotheism of Xenophanes is irrelevant to the point of the quote.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.