Comments on: Atheism

By: jon

jon — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:41:59 +0000

stoning? Jesus said “he with no sin cast the first stone”

that means nobody.

if theres something in the old testament your referring to it would be wise to know the difference & read things in context. maybe a little history lesson is in order. bro.

By: antony

antony — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:57:46 +0000

Assuming you refer to Big bang and evolution of universe, please note it is not a belief handed over to us by some cave dwelling, murderous illiterates. we arrived at this knowledge by painstaking observation and evaluation, not by declaring faith in it, but by airing doubts at every single step. It is a journey that has taken us some 13.5 billion years in to the past. A small improvement upon 6004 years!
Every step leading to the conclusion is made open to contest by the the very people who arrived at the conclusion. sounds strange to you? it should!

By: Calvin

Calvin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:56:41 +0000

Idiotic religious people providing a definition of atheism:

The belief that people who know nothing and studied nothing in school and learn nothing magically think they know everything and then type on their keyboards for no reason what so ever making comments that turn out to be true and profound.

Makes perfect sense.

Maybe if you had an IQ over 100, studied biology, chemistry and physics and had a logical brain: you would see that the universe works fine on its own, and doesn’t need an invisible space god telling you not to eat pork and to go to church otherwise you spend an infinite amount of time in a magic prison.

By: Sayan

Sayan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:53:51 +0000

Nothing of what happened was “magic”. It’s sad to see such brainwashing among Christendom and other religion as a general. Why don’t you read a little bit more on the evolutionary theory and the Big Bang Theory. Most theologists and theists have an infinitesimally small grasp of science. Or many, practice pseudo-science (Kent Hovind, etc.) Have you opened your Bible? The Old Testament repeatedly condones many atrocities–http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.html. And I presume that you don’t have a degree in science, yet you think you’re smarter than the likes of Dawkins, Hitchens, Hawkings, and the rest of the menagerie, even though they’ve dedicated their entire lives to the field? Grow up.

By: SG

SG — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:12:09 +0000

Yeah and the belief that a magical invisible man in the sky created it all is so much more credible.

By: Ian Black

Ian Black — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:02:09 +0000

This is pretty much completely untrue. Atheism is confined purely to the belief that there is no God. Atheism in and of itself does not claim to know how the universe started. Although nothing coming from nothing in my mind is better than some invisible being that kills the entire human race whenever they piss him off.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:16:41 +0000

Oh yeah and a space god living in the clouds playing big brother to the universe while carefully monitoring every single person every moment of everyday is completely reasonable. Atheists believe that there is no possible way you can know what happens when you die….until you die. You religious nuts guarantee you know the answers, at least us atheists admit we don’t. Read a book and you’ll realize the Earth is a lot more than just 5,000 years old (like the bible says) or that dinosaurs and man never existed at the same time. Creationism=Lies and Faith=Believing something with absolutely no proof. Rather religulous if you ask me.

By: NMS-09a

NMS-09a — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:52:08 +0000

I’m an atheist, and I have no idea how the universe started. Saying that “god did it” just pushes the question back to, “Who made god?” The exact same things said in the image can be said for religions as well; don’t think you’re immune just because you slap a god onto everything you don’t know. And please stop using this straw man, it’s extremely annoying.

By: YourNeighborhoodAtheist

YourNeighborhoodAtheist — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:31:11 +0000

This, on its surface, seems like a good argument for the existence of God. However, if one is to say that everything needs a creator and cannot arise naturally, then how does one explain God’s existence? Surely God must not have a creator and thus God “magically” appeared from nothing. The point is, something obviously did arise naturally without a creator, whether the thing is question is God or the universe; God’s own existence makes him unnecessary in that something could have been created from nothing. One can not make a principled argument if one claims that God is the exception to the rule used to prove him. One might say that God is not material, has no energy or matter, that God is infinite rather than finate, that God resides outside of the universe (which begs the question of who created this other universe God lives in), in essence that god has no entropy. If one is to say this then one is to say that God does not exist because this fits the definition of of nonexistence. Furthermore, we can observe that complexity cannot arise in a complex state but rather must originate in simplicity and become more complex over time, be it life (humans did not magically appear but rather evolved from a line that can be traced back to organic compounds), a solar system and its planets (we know the solar system was once a disorderly disk of gas and particles, look up te nebular hypothesis), or the universe (the big bang; the universe began as the most simple state possible, a singularity). Thus, the concept of God is in contradiction with certain basic premises of reality in that God is generally accepted to not have been created and then must always have been as complex as God was when he created the universe, and God must be at least as complex as the universe in order to create it; God has always been enormously complex and did not evolve from simplicity, and this is considered to be impossible by all serious inquiries. This view (that it is impossible for God to exist because he has always existed in a complex or ordered state) is also supported by basic fundementals of physics and math. The laws of thermodynamics suggest that the statistical probability of the universe being created from from a state of even lower entropy (the more complex and ordered something is, the lower the entropy, thus, God is a state of lower entropy) compared to a state or higher entropy is infinitely lower. We can not definitively demonstrate that God does not exist beyond a reasonable doubt, however the (abridged) evidence above should demonstrate that there is clear and conving evidence suggesting the concept of God is either improbable or impossible.

By: YourNeighborhoodAtheist

YourNeighborhoodAtheist — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:00:45 +0000