RE: Atheists
May 19, 2014 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 11:02 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 19, 2014 at 10:33 pm)MrWizard Wrote: Can you prove something came from nothing?
Such a short sentence, so many problems.
First of all, it is nothing but a big fat argument from ignorance.
Just because we currently may not have an answer for the existence of the universe, does not mean that 'god did it' becomes the next best answer by default.
'God did it' has a very poor answer for unknowns in the past, it's not likely to get any better. Storms, earthquakes, famine, disease have all been answered with 'god did it' throughout history, and it hasn't worked out too well so far.
'God did it' has no explanatory power or scope.
If you can substitute the word 'magic' in place of 'god' and you haven't altered the explanatory power, you've explained nothing with
'god did it'.
And of course, if you are claiming that something as complex as the universe requires a god, how do you account for the existence of an even more complex thing such as this god you posit?
And who says that the universe came from nothing?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
