(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: MysticKnight's little presentation did a good job of demonstrating the close-mindedness of the the atheist mentality.
By making up a scenario where the nonatheist happens to be right for no apparent reason? You and I have different ideas of 'good' when it comes to demonstrating things.
(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: They exist every day in their little scientific boxes, hoping that scientists will discover for them the cause and reason for life.
If scientists never do, it's not the slightest skin off my nose. I'm not an atheist because of science, I'm an atheist because I can tell a good argument from a bad one.
(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: If that cause and reason doesn't fit in their little world view, they reject it and wait for their scientists to hopefully, someday discover that for them.
You talk as though you have evidence of 'a cause and reason' when you're merely asserting it.
(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: All this even though they know that matter cannot be created from nothing, and if something was never created and always existed, it has qualities attributed to God.
Sure. Quantum foam fits pretty much everything on the list of God qualities except personhood. If you want to worship it, be my guest.
(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: How can someone examine the origin of the universe or contemplate what exists beyond the edge of the universe and not reason out the existence of something beyond the natural world?
How can someone do so and not reason out that the natural world is bigger than they imagined?
(February 8, 2015 at 5:51 pm)Lek Wrote: I guess time will tell how well I "know" what I believe, but I'm betting it all on it. Tell me how I'm worse off than you are.
Your belief seems to keep you from using your mind to the extent that you should be able to do.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.