Is Atheism a crutch for people who donât understand the complexity of God?
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Would you rather believe that "it is God's will"? That is a BIG cop-out but it also kills the interest in religion and the belief of a supreme being if you assign these finite, human characteristic to a non-existent, "personal god". "God does not heal the amputees", God does not interfere and there is ample evidence to that.
Well, if you think that everything is already planned out - then you are a believer of fate. Then you also reject the notion of "free will". Therefore there can be no sin or good deeds. I.e no saints, demons etc.
If you are not able to reason about your claim "nothing is random", then I think you are sadly equipped to think at all. Also - how about those atheists 100-400 years ago -- were they severely outnumbered or what? I.e your claims of "people thought disease was random" are narrowed to pretty specific small groups.
You sound like you practice bibliomancy to do your trading, daily routine etc...
Well, if we are at the beginning, and there is no Christian god, pagan gods, etc., then we are left at a serious stalemate. No evidence for or against. I have a hard time conceptualizing why a supreme being would bother with evolution; however, and we have discovered soooo much in the last few hundred years that religion was sure was created by God. Lightening for one. The existence of atoms and how nearly everything works for another.
I almost wish I was a scientist instead of a trader. Can't think of many professions cooler than astrophysics. These guys discover something new every year.
I also really hope I am still alive if science is able to create life from combining amino acids. That will pretty much end every "logical" argument for creation, but we will be left with what was there before the Big Bang, or another mind bender, what is on the other side of the universe?
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Well, when it comes to evolution - science is on the side of atheists. We know that through the knowledge of DNA - species sharing similar DNA etc - in fact proving evolution.
Try and beat that using similar logic.
it gets better than that for proving evolution. Scientists can now induce it in real time using bacteria. They use bacteria due to thousands of lifespans in a short period of time. They are simply dumping bacteria into petri dishes, and then radically adjusting the environment without killing them. The damn things evolve. They should sell kits for this like those home ant farms!
Biochemistry is much faster evolving than astrophysics...
Just wait when they are able to change the telomerase in all of us. They already did on some worms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomerase
Geron Corporation is one-to-watch for the future if you want to invest...
The US government may not be too happy about extending life expectancy for anyone, though... hehehe, the deficit and all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Quote from Gringinho:
Well, when it comes to evolution - science is on the side of atheists. We know that through the knowledge of DNA - species sharing similar DNA etc - in fact proving evolution.
Try and beat that using similar logic.
Sorry - on this one you are out of context and therefore incorrect.
Science is not on a theist or atheist side. If evolution is a fact (depending on how you define evolution - It could very well be) that does not mean that science is on the side of atheists.
Your argument would seem to be that Evolution is a fact - therefore God does not exist. I wonder how you could even begin to call that argument logical.
Therefore, I am sure you would agree Science is not on the side of the atheist.