RE: Is atheism self-contradictory ?
June 30, 2017 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2017 at 1:14 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Time to analytically slaughter a moron.
You haven't backed any of this up at all. So this isn't even worth rebutting.
As far as I'm concerned it's those who believe a super-entity (deity) created everything that have been brainwashed.
Furthermore if everything needs a cause then God needs a cause so to barely assert that God is the first cause is just that... a bare assertion.
Finally: Existence itself is eternal so there is no first cause. The so-called ultimate question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has a clear answer: "Because the alternative to there not being something is for there to be nothing which is logically impossible. So there is something rather than nothing because being nothing is a logical impossibility."
I was very pleased to discover that someone else was intelligent enough to discover the correct answer to this question. (That someone else being Dean Rickles of course, not you, you're a moron).
This is incredibly ironic because indeed false beliefs can sometimes aid survivability and false hope in a creator of a universe and a heaven is an example of that!
1.Bare assertions aren't worth rebutting 2.The fact you think your bare assertions are too intelligent to rebut just demonstrates your own idiocy. 3. I expect you to now either A) Continue to embarrass yourself, B) Ragequit atheistforums.org, C) Get yourself banned by breaking the rules like an idiot, or D) Some combination of A), B) and C).
(June 30, 2017 at 4:44 am)ManofYesterday Wrote: Many of you don't believe in God or dislike religion for emotional reasons--and all of you have been brainwashed by contemporary society into thinking religion/God = Harry Potter. And when a person presents you with evidence or a good argument, you either ignore it completely, respond with snark, or talk amongst yourselves about "Sky Daddies," hand wave, or cheer lead: "You really got him good when you mentioned sky daddies!" Guys, you do realize that none of this is funny or amusing? You just make yourselves look stupid. All you're doing is demonstrating that you can't hang; you're unable to defend your world view.
You haven't backed any of this up at all. So this isn't even worth rebutting.
As far as I'm concerned it's those who believe a super-entity (deity) created everything that have been brainwashed.
Furthermore if everything needs a cause then God needs a cause so to barely assert that God is the first cause is just that... a bare assertion.
Finally: Existence itself is eternal so there is no first cause. The so-called ultimate question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has a clear answer: "Because the alternative to there not being something is for there to be nothing which is logically impossible. So there is something rather than nothing because being nothing is a logical impossibility."
I was very pleased to discover that someone else was intelligent enough to discover the correct answer to this question. (That someone else being Dean Rickles of course, not you, you're a moron).
Quote:A brain that is tuned for ascertaining truths and falsehoods doesn't necessarily follow from evolution. For instance, a mutation could be introduced into a species that negatively affects the cognitive faculties but nevertheless dramatically increases the survivability in that species through a different means. The mutation would then be passed down to later generations. Or a mutation could be introduced that produces a false belief, but the false belief increases survivability.
This is incredibly ironic because indeed false beliefs can sometimes aid survivability and false hope in a creator of a universe and a heaven is an example of that!
Quote:Are none of you intelligent enough to follow the aforementioned points? Are none of you intelligent enough to rebut them?
1.Bare assertions aren't worth rebutting 2.The fact you think your bare assertions are too intelligent to rebut just demonstrates your own idiocy. 3. I expect you to now either A) Continue to embarrass yourself, B) Ragequit atheistforums.org, C) Get yourself banned by breaking the rules like an idiot, or D) Some combination of A), B) and C).
