(February 6, 2018 at 3:26 pm)psalm531 Wrote: Great responses - very helpful and well argued! I appreciate it.
All in all, quite interesting and a lot of similarities. I need to do some deeper thinking on a lot of what was said, but a couple questions do jump out -
1) How do you deal with the idea of ceasing to exist after death - or doesn't it bother you?
2) How do you explain what could be considered evidence of intelligent design (such as DNA) - or the statistical improbability we could have happened by random occurrence.
Another is - Can you explain why you became an atheist? But that could easily be a topic for another thread.
1. Why should humans get an eternal life when all other mammal species do not? Just because humans were smart enough to have imagined a god and that promise? Every mammal life form to date dies, except for some cancer cell lines. (at least so far)
2. DNA does not require intelligent design. If intelligent, why does an onion have more DNA than a human? Next, what does abiogenesis have to do with random? That is a fallacy. God is the statistical improbability within reality, however as a fantasy completely probable.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
Me/Atheist: Our youth preacher out of frustration told me to stop asking questions (painting him in a corner) and just do as your told and believe. Not immediate but that was the start.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
