Atheisms

 When theists ask me, “how can something come from nothing,” I answer as follows: “That’s exactly my question. How can god come from nothing. At least we’re very close to explaining the complete origin of the universe. However, after thousands of years and millions of theist philosophers trying to explain things, we’re still no closer to knowing anything about god or its origin.”

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I just finished re-reading Mark Twain’s “The Mysterious Stranger.” Solipsism explains everything! I recommend it to one and all. Other Twain works are also worth re-reading. Letters from the Earth, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, and many more. Read everything by Twain. It’ll do you good.


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"The bible tells man how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." - Galileo

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Futurama Evolution Debate

https://youtu.be/yX6p5UwFhh4


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Is there any scientific fact that you reject because it appears to conflict with atheism? Would you attack someone as a 'liar' for even mentioning it to you?

Hello, Charlene Hardin!

Q: Is there any scientific fact that you reject because it appears to conflict with atheism?

No, of course not. The only scientific fact that could possibly conflict with atheism would be scientific proof that one of the many gods actually worshiped by anybody throughout history actually exists, and there just isn’t such proof, sorry.

On the other hand, I do frequently reject things that some people claim are scientific facts that somehow “disprove atheism,” but that’s only because they are not actually scientific facts:

  • No, it is not a “scientific fact” that Noah’s ark has been discovered someplace.
  • No, it is not a “scientific fact” that the existence of a “Mitochondrial Eve”[1] and a “Y-chromosomal Adam”[2] prove that the Biblical story of “Adam and Eve” is true.
  • No, it is not a “scientific fact” that the Second Law of Thermodynamics proves that evolution is impossible[3] or that some biological systems are too “irreducibly complex” to have evolved on their own.[4]
  • No, it’s not a “scientific fact” that the universe is too “fine-tuned” for the existence of intelligent life for it to have happened purely by chance.[5]
  • No, it is not a “scientific fact” that credible studies have proved the existence of past lives and reincarnation (which doesn’t even have anything to do with atheism, to be honest).
  • Etc.

Q: Would you attack someone as a 'liar' for even mentioning it to you?

Now in general, since it’s awfully hard to tell if somebody is merely misinformed or if they are actively Lying for Jesus™, I’m usually willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and not attack them as a liar for bringing stuff like this up. If somebody keeps presenting the same misinformation over and over again, however, after having the facts repeatedly explained to them by numerous people, well, I tend to be a little less charitable about their presumed motives.

[Note: See the comments section for the response from Charlene Hardin in which she identifies which of the various “scientific facts” she was actually referring to. I figured if I named a bunch of possibilities I’d include the one she is erroneously convinced about, and I was right!]

Footnotes

[1] Mitochondrial Eve - Wikipedia
[2] Y-chromosomal Adam - Wikipedia
[3] Awwwww… So Cute!
[4] The Inherent Deceitfulness of “Intelligent Design”
[5] A Response to the “Fine Tuned Universe” Argument

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Albert Einstein’s letter to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945, responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism:, "I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist". Quoted by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 2:,

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.” -- Albert Einstein, 1954, The Human Side, Princeton University Press


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"When many remedies are suggested, you can be sure there is no cure." - Anton Chekov


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Moral Relativism courtesy of Jesus H. Christ (as channeled through someone centuries later labelled Matthew): 

Matthew 22:38-40 King James Version (KJV)

This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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