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Does atheism inspire people?
#81
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:13 am)Mosrhun Wrote:
(May 31, 2012 at 9:10 am)StatCrux Wrote: Thinking that's what it looks like to me..

I elaborated on what I meant, if it came across that way then my mistake. Please don't quote out of context.

ok heres the full quote

Quote:It gives an alternative to a creation scenario. With no alternative, god must have done it and therefore they are theists. Are you really that dense?

Seems to me its quite clear that you were saying evolution is an alternative to creation. Then when questioned you changed that to abiogenesis, still no explanation of how that process works though...
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#82
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:18 am)StatCrux Wrote: Seems to me its quite clear that you were saying evolution is an alternative to creation. Then when questioned you changed that to abiogenesis, still no explanation of how that process works though...

Any evidence that god created the universe?

No?

Yet another fucking surprise.....
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#83
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
I think the question makes sense when you talk about something in particular, like religion. Clearly it has inspired lots of art and much of it well thought of for a long time.

To ask if atheism has done the same is obtuse for all the reasons already given.

Perhaps you meant to ask, are atheists inspired to make artwork inspite of their lack of belief. The answer to that is emphatically yes. My wife is an artist and has work in major collections and museums all over the world. She was raised without religion and is still religion free but it seems to have been no impediment to her creativity or success.

Of course she hasn't been inspired by atheism because that merely describes what she is not, a theist. Like everyone else, she is inspired by what she is and is interested in .. at the moment that would be science. She is speaking today at the Renwick in D.C. about collaborative work she has been doing with neuro-scientists using brain imagery.

Have you ever been inspired to make art by coin collecting, mass transit or climatology? If not the reason probably has more to do with your lack of interest or involvement with those things than it does with their intrinsic inability to inspire art.
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#84
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:20 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(May 31, 2012 at 9:18 am)StatCrux Wrote: Seems to me its quite clear that you were saying evolution is an alternative to creation. Then when questioned you changed that to abiogenesis, still no explanation of how that process works though...

Any evidence that god created the universe?

No?

Yet another fucking surprise.....

God is self evident, axiomatic..your denying the fact doesn't change it.
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#85
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:27 am)StatCrux Wrote:
(May 31, 2012 at 9:20 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Any evidence that god created the universe?

No?

Yet another fucking surprise.....

God is self evident, axiomatic..your denying the fact doesn't change it.

Prove it
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#86
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
I'm waiting StatCrux.
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#87
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:37 am)Welsh cake Wrote: I'm waiting StatCrux.

We all are, I suggest you get a good book though.

We'll be waiting a while.
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#88
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
This was inspired by an atheist....

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#89
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
(May 31, 2012 at 9:27 am)StatCrux Wrote:
(May 31, 2012 at 9:20 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Any evidence that god created the universe?

No?

Yet another fucking surprise.....

God is self evident, axiomatic..your denying the fact doesn't change it.

The last line of defense for any sense of self worth built upon a stinking pile of lies.
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#90
RE: Does atheism inspire people?
God has implanted knowledge of himself within every person, each individual has this knowledge, becoming aware of it is what differs from each individual. Some people deny it but are still aware of it. Some people don't relate it to what they understand from the term "God" this is because the term itself is misunderstood. But that awareness of something transcendent and numinous exists in all of us and is self evident to anyone who seeks it.
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