What are the best Atheistic Arguments?

[amw79]

[quote='amw79' pid='35253' dateline='1253974470']
Exactly. Religion still tries to explain remaining unanswered questions - i.e. what caused the big bang (god), why there's 'something' rather than 'nothing' (god); where our morality comes from (god); what happens to us after death (we are rewarded or punished, by god).


And there's your gross misunderstanding. Religion has always answered questions of meaning and reason. Science explicitly seeks to understand what we have evidence for. The two are completely different.

Trying to apply science to religious questions is farcical. It simply isn't the subject of science.

And your misunderstanding is plainly evident within this. Religion has explicitly tried to explain natural empircal phenomenon (evidence) by means of resorting to a "god(s) did it" conclusion. As has already been mentioned, disease (attribuued to gods retribution). Lightning (attributed to gods wrath, or Thors hammer).

Religion has over history, explicity tried to explain the origins of the universe, life, man, morality by stating it was the work of god. You may be an 'enlightened' believer, but you cannot erase the history.

So fr0do, for example, are you claiming that religion's attempted monopoly on the origin of morality, is an claim/statement of "meaning and reason" as opposed to an empirical scientific claim.