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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:31 pm
I don't know what a singularity it is. Do you? Perhaps define your terms.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:35 pm
(December 23, 2013 at 3:59 pm)savedwheat Wrote: Since something can't come from nothing and infinite regress is impossible, nature needs a cause outside of itself, outside of time and space being uncreated whom we call God.

Argument from absolutes. Which, if it isn't already a thing it bloody well is now.

"Something can't come from nothing" - then where did this god come from?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:35 pm
The necessity of the uncreated Creator would make your question illogical when you ask what caused the uncaused.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:38 pm
(December 23, 2013 at 5:35 pm)savedwheat Wrote: The necessity of the uncreated Creator would make your question illogical when you ask what caused the uncaused.

Except that you haven't demonstrated this alleged necessity. Again, piling up unsupported claims does not an argument make.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:42 pm (This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 5:43 pm by savedwheat.)
The necessity comes from the fact that nature needs a cause outside itself.

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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:49 pm
"E vira o disco e toca o mesmo"
Portuguese folk expression... pertains to the old LPs in which the music on one side is the same as the one on the other side.
Literal translation: flip the disk and play the same thing.

How can this wheat fellow understand anything, if he doesn't know what a singularity is... and he claims to have read Krauss's book... I wonder...
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:51 pm
(December 23, 2013 at 5:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: How can this wheat fellow understand anything, if he doesn't know what a singularity is... and he claims to have read Krauss's book... I wonder...

I don't. Tongue
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:53 pm
How many cause and effects can you think up and how many instances can you think of something coming from nothing?

This is my evidence.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:54 pm
(December 23, 2013 at 3:59 pm)savedwheat Wrote: Since something can't come from nothing and infinite regress is impossible

Proof of these two claims?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:55 pm (This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 5:56 pm by savedwheat.)
The proof is we observe only cause and effects in society, and if infinite regress were true you would have had an eternity to come into being before now so you should have already happened. Therefore, nature needs a cause outside of itself, outside of time and space, being uncreated.
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