RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 23, 2012 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2012 at 8:11 am by NoMoreFaith.)
(April 23, 2012 at 7:33 am)Jireh Wrote:(April 23, 2012 at 6:47 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Let me repeat the point. Hardly anybody says nothing created the universe.
your fellow Ace Otana does. Krauss does, Hawkins does....
Then you have not watched or read any replies in this thread.
Is an empty box nothing? Is a vacuum nothing? What do you consider nothing?
In both those examples, they are referring to a nothing which consists of "something".
True nothing is most likely to be impossible.
(April 23, 2012 at 7:33 am)Jireh Wrote:NoMoreFaith Wrote:By implication there is probably always something, even if its the "nothing" in the scientific physics/quantum sense.
what does it mean, by the physics/quantum sense ?
either there was always something, or there was not. you cannot have it both ways.
Is it actually possible to quote a person stating there is"probably always something", and then accuse the person quoted of sitting on the fence about the issue? Are you fundamentally dishonest in your replies? How peculiar.
(April 23, 2012 at 7:51 am)fr0d0 Wrote: ...just as atheism is a cover all term for those lacking said belief. That does not mean that atheists lack any belief, or cannot be subdivided into "denominations" covering all kinds of superstitious and pseudo rational bullshit idealisms.
I bet Venn diagrams confused the hell out of you at school.
I take it the concept of not believing in God, but believing in something equally irrational equals having to justify non-belief in a God... how exactly?
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm