(June 25, 2017 at 2:12 pm)Parsim0ny Wrote: 1. I am only assuming that human brain must have a supernatural creator, because otherwise judgment of the brain cannot be trusted.
That, in my opinion, is a very bad assumption to make. If one examines other animals, one sees quite a few similarities and I consider it considerably more likely that the human brain evolved and was not created.
I also think that "the supernatural" has 2 basic definitions, neither of which supports the existence of your alleged god. Something "supernatural" is either something natural that we haven't yet explained, or it's totally imaginary.
Quote:3. The universe expanded from a very high density state, the notions of space and time didn't exist in the beginning. The universe has a starting point and there must have an explanation for its existence. Because out of nothing comes nothing.
That's why I believe that matter/energy have always existed in some form. Don't bother trying to claim that your god did it, unless you have empirical proof that your god exists and also have an explanation for where it came from. If you're going to assert "My god was always there," I can assert "Matter/energy was always there."
Quote:I don't think it is even serious to claim that the Quran was written by an illiterate man in the 7th century, and not one of its verses seems to be obviously false with known modern scientific facts.
Well, considering that stylistically it resembles 6th century Arabic poetry, contains blatant plagiarisms from the Bible and from the Greek physician Galen ("clot of blood" embryology), and is rife with violence, misogyny, absurdities (talking ants and the sun setting in a muddy pool at the end of the day) and contradictory instructions ("There is no compulsion in religion" versus "Kill the unbelievers"), I think it considerably more likely that it was cobbled together by a committee of adequately literate imams sometime after the death of Muhammad.
