Systematically Dismantling Atheism

[The Grand Nudger]

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If one of something exists -intelligent life for example- you must explain a cause to prevent other intelligent life from existing. And if varying degrees of intelligent life are proven to exist -which they are-, you must explain the cause why higher degrees of intelligence must cease at a particular arbitrarily defined level

Rejecting a wide variation of logically possible life forms before they are observable it not logical. So your position is, you must either accept the proposition superior intellects can logically exist, or reject the proposition superior intellects can logically exist. And since you clearly do not reject the proposition, you are then forced to explain the cause for the universal I.Q stagnation so that it can never reach a God-like status and contradict your atheism.

And the only person on this board that has even attempted to do this is Jenny A, and her argument (laws of physics) completely failed to prove a God-like I.Q. is logically impossible

Claiming there is no evidence for this God-like I.Q. it is identical to claiming there is no evidence for any intellectual superior life. You accept the alien possibility by faith through inference, yet you irrationally reject a God-like I.Q. on no other basis other than faith it does not exist/lack of faith it does exist.

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That there is no evidence (of intellectually superior life) is a simple fact. The criteria are convenient for us, they seem almost designed to exclude us in a satisfying way - to set us apart. But that's ultimately irrelevant. Atheism is not a position on the existence of aliens or intelligence (notice that the atheists who have responded to you run the spectrum on these propositions - there need be no agreement, there is no "atheist position" on this). Whether or not one puts any stock into supersmart alien claims simply -cannot- contradict atheism, understand?

If you'd like to continue the analogy to intelligent extraterrestrial species be my guest. When you're done arguing that god is/could be a very smart alien we still won't have any evidence, and we'll be short a god or two as well. So, no change.

But also according to my religion, there were Angels that also did not think their creator was worthy to be worshiped or to be obeyed, so their creator holds the option to negate their eternal life, just as a PC programer can delete his program, God can permanently delete you for not obeying

Yeah, yeah, chattel - heard it before. Disgusting. I hope you hold human beings (yourself included) to a higher standard than you hold your god. I think it's ironic that within the walls of religious idiocy this story is so vastly unconsidered. These "angels" - who arguably had more contact with your god than human beings ( I say arguably, because in all honesty "they" had precisely the same amount of contact as human beings have had -zip, zilch, nada-), have decided that said god simply was not worthy of worship or obedience (and by all descriptions of god I've been privy to I would concur). If there was any doubt, an invocation of a gods right to "delete" them on these grounds would seal the deal in their favor. You make a very good argument against fealty to an existent god, so gratz on that count.