RE: Evidence for atheism
September 25, 2014 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2014 at 4:15 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 25, 2014 at 2:22 pm)Madness20 Wrote: Well, be it god or the universe, you have somekind of unexplainable fundamental complexity nonetheless, and is almost logical necessity that something always existed in order to generate something, so the argument for complexity of the uncreated cause is not exactly strong.
The 'something that has always existed, is existence.
Existence is the primacy of everything, inducing our universe in its current state.
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.