Is atheism self-contradictory ?

[LadyForCamus]

I can't believe how stupid all of you people are... it's fucking nuts.

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.

Mix all of this with a subculture of people who do not read science or philosophy while pretending that they read science and philosophy--and you have the Atheist Forum.

And after everything that has been said, most of you still do not understand that evolution doesn't necessarily lead to brains that are predisposed to producing true beliefs. Part of the problem is you guys don't seem to know what "necessarily" means in logic.

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. "If you don't drink enough water, you'll explode" That's a false belief, but it would result in higher survivability. Moreover, a mutation could be introduced that would produce a false belief in the brain, but since the false belief doesn't affect the survivability of the species, it persists. So, millions of years later, a species may have numerous false beliefs--none of which negatively affected their surviability. Finally, it may be that our brains are very good at things like "stay away from spiders" or "don't jump off cliffs" but they aren't good at abstract concepts like mathematics and philosophy. This is because there's no chance for evolution to prefer or disprefer such abstract concepts. How could it? A caveman that is good at metaphysics isn't going to be able to run any faster from predators. If there is a positive effect in terms of surviability it would be negligible compared to a mutation that would, for instance, strengthen the legs allowing for a faster sprint.

Are none of you intelligent enough to follow the aforementioned points? Are none of you intelligent enough to rebut them?

Wow, now I'm sorry I was so nice and took such a huge amount of time to deconstruct everything you said and show how it was a failure of understanding (and I notice you subsequently failed to address it, but we both know that's because you obviously can't refute it). Chow on a turd sandwich, you nitwit neanderthal. You think a psychiatrist reading what you wrote isn't making it transparent that you're exhibiting every kind of irrational behavior one can name? Projection, false equivocation, persistent delusions, not to mention short attention span, impatience and quick to anger over something trivial. You're just another casualty of religion's pernicious viral infection. Science forbid you ever get your tainted hooks into any child, especially your own (but please, do the right thing and don't breed.)

I'm willing to bet the ban hammer is near for this one.  ManofYesterday is going to be MemberUpUntilYesterday, by tomorrow.