RE: How can you be an atheist?!
September 24, 2011 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2011 at 2:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Actually, your parents did "grant you" all of those things. Laws of inheritance and all. You have played a pretty active role in creating your "self". Which is where this nonsense originates from in the first place. One cell isn't strictly speaking more complicated than the Eiffel Tower btw, but it's a poetic description of life that we use often. It actually took many many cells to create the Eiffel Tower (human cells), so I'm not sure why we are asked to believe that it has no designer. We know that it does. The way you've phrased this question is borderline absurd. Are we positing god in the delivery room? Hopefully not, because he'd have more than a few deaths on his hands on that count. "The evidence" suggests many things, sadly, not god (even less so your God).
I have to ask, if everything requires a creator, who created god, and who created whatever created him, ad infinitum? If your parents are not the cause of your existence, at what point did god stick his hand up your mothers canal and place you within her womb? Was your father really necessary? Is there a moment, independent of biology, were something happens that is beyond our understanding of sexual reproduction and a human life is created? If so, can you point to that moment?
Lastly, do you have some argument for god that has eluded detection all these thousands of years and would lay the whole debate to rest? Are you in possession of some sort of evidence that would suggest that god exists? If stringing words together in the general pattern of your favorite you-tube apologist is all you have, you don't have much. The Eiffel Tower bit is a fun slogan, but you need evidence, not slogans.
We believe that you believe, now explain why.
I have to ask, if everything requires a creator, who created god, and who created whatever created him, ad infinitum? If your parents are not the cause of your existence, at what point did god stick his hand up your mothers canal and place you within her womb? Was your father really necessary? Is there a moment, independent of biology, were something happens that is beyond our understanding of sexual reproduction and a human life is created? If so, can you point to that moment?
Lastly, do you have some argument for god that has eluded detection all these thousands of years and would lay the whole debate to rest? Are you in possession of some sort of evidence that would suggest that god exists? If stringing words together in the general pattern of your favorite you-tube apologist is all you have, you don't have much. The Eiffel Tower bit is a fun slogan, but you need evidence, not slogans.
We believe that you believe, now explain why.
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