RE: YouTube: 5 Questions Every Intelligent Atheist MUST Answer
July 23, 2010 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2010 at 4:18 pm by Joe Bloe.)
The errors started even before he asked the questions:
(1) He assumed that intelligent atheists must have had a college education.
I'm an intelligent atheist who left school in year ten at age sixteen.
(2) He says the answers must make sense in an intuitive way.
Intuition is perception independent of any reasoning process - so no guarantee that it will make sense.
(3) He says there are problems in the atheistic belief system.
I am an atheist who lacks belief in god - and that's an end of it. There is no atheistic belief system. Put two atheists together and it is possible they will disagree on almost every subject you care to mention. The only thing common to all atheists is a lack of belief in god.
(4) He says Richard Dawkins coined the phrase "God of the Gaps"
It was first used by Henry Drummond in the 19th century, and used by many others long before Dawkins was born. The phrase came into common usage in 1955 when Dawkins was only 13 years old!
Other people have answered the five questions, so I won't bother.
(1) He assumed that intelligent atheists must have had a college education.
I'm an intelligent atheist who left school in year ten at age sixteen.
(2) He says the answers must make sense in an intuitive way.
Intuition is perception independent of any reasoning process - so no guarantee that it will make sense.
(3) He says there are problems in the atheistic belief system.
I am an atheist who lacks belief in god - and that's an end of it. There is no atheistic belief system. Put two atheists together and it is possible they will disagree on almost every subject you care to mention. The only thing common to all atheists is a lack of belief in god.
(4) He says Richard Dawkins coined the phrase "God of the Gaps"
It was first used by Henry Drummond in the 19th century, and used by many others long before Dawkins was born. The phrase came into common usage in 1955 when Dawkins was only 13 years old!
Other people have answered the five questions, so I won't bother.
