RE: How to convert an atheist
March 27, 2014 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2014 at 7:20 pm by Cyberman.)
(March 27, 2014 at 6:41 pm)jimmyk2190 Wrote: atheism makes the assertion that god is created the earth ex nihilo or from nothing or outside of time. the same principle applies to the big bang. that dosen't mean either are right we don't know the big band happened. Also ask an atheist what kind of properties the first cell had HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION. In fact he will offer the smug atheistic tone that we atheist are smarter and start critiquing fallacies in the holy book which do exist and god is indeed fake ....but I'm just saying its sort of a red herring.
I think you misspoke, atheism doesn't make that assertion. In fact, atheism makes no assertions at all, being the rejection of theistic claims.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'