Atheism and the existence of peanut butter

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Feel free to comment on my other thread of surviving a thermonuclear detonation in one's hometown.

I will check it out. I hope the ongoing Russian agression won't come to that, though.

In any case, I find it impossible to believe that there is a God who causes some U235 atoms to fission in an atomic blast (a necessary precursor to the hydrogen fussion bomb) while allowing other U235 atoms to turn into U236 atoms via neutron capture with a half-life of 1.5 billion years or so; these atoms, of course, do not contribute to the fission blast.

If I understand you correctly, you think God isn't supposed to allow the making of atomic bombs, but the same can be said about any instance of evil. I think that Otto Hahn, the chemist who discovered nuclear fission, is the only person to blame. It can safely be said that his scientific contributions didn't really contribute to our well being in any way.

 Yes, an all-powerful deity could prevent all evil from happening, but it could have reasons that are unkown (unknowable?) to us for not doing so. In fact, theologians have managed to resolve the so-called problem of evil (in its logical form) quite convincingly, it's actually one of the very rare topics (if not the only one) in the philosophy of religion where one finds clear concessions by atheists that an objection to belief in God really was solved.

Arguing for a god whose existence is unproven is unreasonable.

This doesn't make sense. If one is arguing for a god, they're precisely trying to make his existence proven. There is nothing unreasonable with defending one's beliefs