Re: Is being an atheist irrational?
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:21 pm
sorry, double post.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Psalm 19:1)
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You can say that again.Hortator wrote:You double posted to say sorry for the double post?
Hold on - are you saying it might be true that a non-existing "thing" can create something? That's illogical - it's "Pop Metaphysics!" With magic, a previously non-existing thing, without another cause, "pops" into existence, and then develops the capability to create other things - THAT is what you believe to be possible???!!! Flush rational thinking with that one!JustHuman: Only the last line I cannot agree with:
After all nothing cannot create anything at all...
That's a statement you cannot know. It might be true, it might not be true.
No, that's where you understand me wrong. You call it 'non-existing thing', but where did you get that 'thing' from? I never talked about it being a 'thing'. A thing implies something, and that's just what it might not be.Philip wrote:JustHuman: Do you mean that "not knowing" automatically means it cannot be? As I do not know where all the material (energy?) came from with the Big Bang, you do not know where God got it from. It's the same, only different viewpoints.
But the issue at this point is, something had the energy - it'd didn't appear from "something" that never existed.
Hold on - are you saying it might be true that a non-existing "thing" can create something? That's illogical - it's "Pop Metaphysics!" With magic, a previously non-existing thing, without another cause, "pops" into existence, and then develops the capability to create other things - THAT is what you believe to be possible???!!! Flush rational thinking with that one!JustHuman: Only the last line I cannot agree with:
After all nothing cannot create anything at all...
That's a statement you cannot know. It might be true, it might not be true.
Justhuman wrote:Dear Abelcainsbrother. You keep coming back about evidence for Christianity, but it is no evidence. Unless you qualify belief as evidence.There is a massive amount of evidence Christianity is true but you being an atheist not caring if it is true or not don't take evidence seriously and since you just accept things that sound good to you without evidence you are not an evidence type person and so it won't sway you,until you get serious about evidence.If you have no way of knowing atheism is true then how could you pass up free salvation Jesus offers?It does not take much faith at all to believe God can do miracles if he created the entire universe and everything in it,miracles would be nothing for him.He could be born into this world the same way we are easily.
Being an atheist doesn't make me uncaring about the truth. I wish you could differentiate between 'not believing' and 'not caring'. Maybe it is impossible for you to think of anything else but your believe, or maybe YOU don't care about the atheistic viewpoint? What makes us different then?
Well until you get serious about evidence and want to know you are right,giving evidence is pointless.I would like to give you evidence and I already have before but it is just like I'm saying,you don't care about evidence.And so there is no reason to get into evidence when you don't care if you are right or wrong.You need a desire to know you are right and you don't have that right now.You should have a desire to know you are right about the choices you make and have made.You are in a state of limbo until you die and won't know if you were right until then.Justhuman wrote:Well... Abelcainsbrother, I think we possess about the same amount of stubborness, though I too think you disagree.
You don't know me and thus know nothing about my kind of mentality.You need this kind of a mentality and you don't have it right now.
Oh, I never do that!JustHuman: Thank you Kurieuo, I sometimes get carried away in emotional response...
Don't worry Phil, there is tolerance here for people to get passionate and emotional.Philip wrote:Oh, I never do that!JustHuman: Thank you Kurieuo, I sometimes get carried away in emotional response...
I'm not judging you but based on how you have chosen to accept atheism when there is absolutely no evidence it is true then yes I can say that you don't care about evidence for what is true or not.It is based on what you have chosen to accept,it sounds good to you,but you have no way of knowing if you have made the right choice or not,until you die. A person who values evidence will not just accept things he/she has no way of knowing is true.Justhuman wrote:Abelcainsbrother:You don't know me and thus know nothing about my kind of mentality.You need this kind of a mentality and you don't have it right now.
There you do it again!... I'm not focusing on evidence when you don't really care about it...