Why Atheism is Incoherent & You Aren't as Smart as You Think You Are

[Angrboda]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Consideration of purpose, meaning and direction means little without context.

Believe you that nature is deterministic? If so, then surely most everything outside the control of organisms with advanced brains & free will has been fated, no? Even these things are deterministic, because whether an organism survives and passes on its thought patterns depends on how much those thought patterns align with its environment and give it a survival and reproductive advantage. I want to be very, very clear that I am not trying to invoke the God of the gaps, or 'haha there is a gap in empirical knowledge here, atheists BTFO' or any such silliness. I am talking about the ultimate consequences of natural laws, by which I mean the direction in which they cause the universe to move towards.

Surely? No. When all you've got is, "It's obvious!" Casting aspersions about the intelligence of others is ill-advised.