(June 8, 2009 at 3:10 am)scameter Wrote: If you would like to know more about my motivations for writing this topic, feel free to view my topic in the Introductions page. But I'll just say I'm asking these questions out of a genuine desire to know the truth through deliberated and careful reasoning, study and contemplation, and to avoid having a belief that is merely comfortable to me or that I assume is true without actually studying it. Ok, to get to the questions (which I will limit to five for now):
1. Do you think it is possible to know why the universe exists?
2. How do you think morality can exist without objective authority or verification?
3. If there is no afterlife, what motivation would/should anyone have for living any particular way, such as trying to live ethically, civilly, healthily, or any specific way?
4. If there is no afterlife and no essential or ultimate meaning to existence, why should an atheist care if someone believes in a religion and, indeed, if believing in a religion would make their life easier, would that bother you as an atheist?
5. Can you be absolutely certain, without a doubt, that God or something supernatural does not exist?
As a note: please try to answer the questions themselves, not ask questions in response or deviate from them, and please try to refrain from insult or assumption towards me in your replies. Thank you.
Answers:
1. Doesnt need a reason " why ".
2. Morality is no more than a human concept.
3. What has afterlife got to do with it? We choose to live our life as we see fit.
4. I don't care if people choose to sign on to superstition, for that is how I see religious faith. But I'd rather they didn't.
5. The probability is that a divine being doesn't exist.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
