RE: will these religions ever come to an end?
December 25, 2009 at 11:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2009 at 12:51 am by theVOID.)
(December 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm)Zhalentine Wrote: Few people still believe that the Earth is flat and we have a ton of evidence that proves that it is round. I doubt we'll ever have enough evidence to disprove god and if we can't prove god does not exist, people will still continue to worship one.
We have absolutely conclusive evidence that the earth is round, i mean there are literally thousands of satellites circling it as we speak. There is no excuse for believing it is flat, regardless of what your stupid holy book might say to the contrary and anyone who does can be called with absolute certainty an ignorant moron.
The fact that god cannot be proven shouldn't mean anything, and I'm sad to say you're absolutely right that as long as it cannot be disproved people will cling to it. (i stand that it never can be disproved because it's an entirely unfalsifiable hypothesis that can be immediately adjusted to suit whatever scientific inquiry might disprove the current understanding). The reasons for believing it are nil other than wishful thinking - mostly stemming from the fear of death and hope of immortality - two ideas that while comforting are absolute blind assertions with no evidential basis empirical or otherwise and do nothing but detract from the reality of our finite time on earth.
There will continue to be fallacious arguments for the existence of God, such as the Argument from fine-tuning, the idea that the universe was tuned for life - a ridiculous proposition considering that the major spatial component of the universe are Voids - massive empty regions of space... Yeah because incomprehensibly vast regions of emptiness are exactly what life needs...
The religious are unanimously lacking a sense of context. The idea that the universe was made for life is beyond insane, for what scenario would require 400 billion stars per galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies to sustain life on a minuscule portion of the universe orbiting around a particularly average star in a comparatively tiny galaxy?
Their other key fault is their vast misrepresentation of the Big Bang, even by the most renowned Christian apologists like William Lane Craig - he continually makes the assertion that the Big Bang theory states that something came from nothing - which he knows full well is not a position held by a single cosmologist on earth, in fact many would argue that 'nothing' is logically impossible. He also continually argues that it is impossible for infinite regress to have a place in reality, because it relies on the concept of infinity which he asserts as a certainty does not exist in reality, yet he then declares that since God is 'out of time' that he is infinite... It's a completely fallacious argument based special pleading and downright insanity - The singularity in every single big-bang cosmology is 'out of time' by definition, seeing as it gave rise to time as a dimension.
William Lane Craig is by far the best debater of Apologetics yet even he cannot avoid misrepresenting the atheist position, the big-bang theory and the context for fine-tuning. He appeals to emotion and 'common sense' as if they are in any way proof of God, yet he tries his best to hide the fact that the emotional appeals and the arguments from personal experience he makes could be used to justify any supernatural theory imaginable.
Only education can save this world from the stupid religious positions that so many take, and it is already working. It is no surprise that the decline of religion is most prominent amongst academics.
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