RE: Systematically Dismantling Atheism
November 1, 2014 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2014 at 12:03 am by TheRealJoeFish.)
ID, your main problem (among many, but most have been elucidated by other posters already, so I'm only addressing this one) is that you get to "God-like intelligence" and then jump to "God." Sure, at least one hopefully rational atheist (the only one I can speak for) believes that there is a (small) non-zero possibility that there is an entity somewhere in this universe that has intelligence that far surpasses any human's. But I do not believe that this hypothetical god-like intelligence 1) has existed forever, 2) can alter the physical universe through non-physical means, or has any of the other powers that any definition if "god" will possess if that god is sufficiently distinct from, well, a "not-god."
Sure, you can incrementally argue intelligence up from a human standard. But you can't do the same with, say, the ability to create matter or to read minds or the like.
Sure, you can incrementally argue intelligence up from a human standard. But you can't do the same with, say, the ability to create matter or to read minds or the like.
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