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A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm
Imagine an alternate universe which contains a single hydrogen atom. (Lets not include dark matter or other forces in the discussion for the purpose of simplicity.) You could replace the atom with a proton, a neutron, a sub-atomic particle, or a string. The point is, it's real. It can be measured.
Now where did this hydrogen atom come from?
Was it just always there?
Did it spontaneously appear, ie. magically?
Did someone create it?
How did it come into being?
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:35 pm
No idea.
Do I win a prize?
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm
Not a clue.
You might get more responses if you make an introduction thread and tell us a little about yourself.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:39 pm
Oh noes. The big bad christer's gonna do science and prove gawd with it and then we'll all have to start going to church!
Good luck with that.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:48 pm
If I knew the answer to that, I'd stop making guitars for a living and split my free time between dusting off my multiple Nobel Prizes and enjoying the feel of my solid rhodium toilet seat.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:49 pm
(January 9, 2015 at 7:39 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Oh noes. The big bad christer's gonna do science and prove gawd with it and then we'll all have to start going to church!
Good luck with that.
That's a long winded no, it would have been simpler to say no, right.
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RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm
(January 9, 2015 at 7:53 pm)bob96 Wrote: (January 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Not a clue.
You might get more responses if you make an introduction thread and tell us a little about yourself.
I was raised a Christian. I've struggled with issues of faith on and off over the years. It's always interesting to hear peoples view as to why they believe or don't believe in God.
I'm married with 2 boys that keep me pretty busy, and I live in Victoria Australia. 2014 was the hottest year on record (again) for Australia for three years running, yet it's the middle of Summer, and we've got the heater on because it's currently 9 degrees! (Celsius).
I admit using the word "challenge" was pretty arrogant. I should have used the word question. I'm just wondering how people can believe it possible that "something" came from "nothing" or "was always just there".
Do you believe that God 'was always just there'?
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