RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 8, 2021 at 3:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2021 at 3:32 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
It's not wisdom it's psychology. People are not unfiltered perceivers of information―they latch emotional and moral coloring to propositions. Ad hominems exist because people perceive this coloring and interpret information through it: "You're wrong because you're bad; God doesn't exist because he's evil."
God's existence is independent of his goodness; and yet Hell creates more atheists than science. Hence why a thread about design keeps wanting to become a thread about morality. My hypothesis: If we gather data from this forum we'll find a significant correlation between atheists and the "God is evil" narrative (perhaps stronger among ex-Christians) than theists, which believe "God is love."
God's existence is independent of his goodness; and yet Hell creates more atheists than science. Hence why a thread about design keeps wanting to become a thread about morality. My hypothesis: If we gather data from this forum we'll find a significant correlation between atheists and the "God is evil" narrative (perhaps stronger among ex-Christians) than theists, which believe "God is love."