RE: My argument for atheism +
February 14, 2020 at 1:50 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2020 at 1:53 am by Tom Fearnley.)
I've modified this argument to:
We can agree to: 1) The universe began to exist. 2) It was created by something immaterial. But 3) The immaterial thing is intelligent: Where is your evidence for that? No argument for God gives evidence for the immaterial thing being intelligent.
(I know 1 and 2 aren't necessarily true and that I'm bending over backwards to accommodate theist views.)
There is no evidence for an immaterial intelligence.
For those arguments that actually attempt to give evidence for an intelligence not made of matter or energy (the Kalam or argument from contingency don't even attempt to) like the Digital Physics argument for God:
Google: "Physicists find we're not living in a computer simulation."
So, again, the Digital Physics argument for God fails and gives no evidence for an immaterial intelligence.
We can agree to: 1) The universe began to exist. 2) It was created by something immaterial. But 3) The immaterial thing is intelligent: Where is your evidence for that? No argument for God gives evidence for the immaterial thing being intelligent.
(I know 1 and 2 aren't necessarily true and that I'm bending over backwards to accommodate theist views.)
There is no evidence for an immaterial intelligence.
For those arguments that actually attempt to give evidence for an intelligence not made of matter or energy (the Kalam or argument from contingency don't even attempt to) like the Digital Physics argument for God:
Google: "Physicists find we're not living in a computer simulation."
So, again, the Digital Physics argument for God fails and gives no evidence for an immaterial intelligence.