When an atheist speaks
In a forum which talks about anything, a user just simply came out with a question “How important is religion?” – read it out, and found this few comments appeared and at the same time – disturbed by them and i feel “lackness” of knowledge in my own religion. The bold denotes other users comment, and other than that is the atheist.
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[Religion is important and God exists - it has proof in the holy text]
If God exists, the only way to prove that God exists is for God to prove himself. Natural evidence can not point to a supernatural cause. Twisted logic can also not point to a supernatural cause. I’m not gonna waste my time.
[Man was created by a Supreme Being.]
Prove it. <– (what an answer, atheist..)
[You only don't believe in God because you don't like the thought of someone being more powerful than you.]
Bullshit.
[If there is no God, then where did everything around us come from?]
Why do you assume a god is necessary? Pick up a book on Quantum physics. Seriously. I’m not qualified to teach quantum physics to people without an intuitive understanding of Newtonian physics over an internet forum using only a text-based medium, so a book is your best bet.
http://venables.asu.edu/quant/index.html
^- This page contains a list of books used in universities to teach quantum physics to students.
[Where did DNA come from?]
RNA, which came from naturally occurring acids and sugars, which in turn resulted from the chemical reactions that took place in the first several hundred million years of the Earth’s existence.
[How could something this complex just have popped out of nothingness?]
If by “just have popped out of nothingness” you mean “formed over BILLIONS OF YEARS, your question might be valid.
[Religions have done more good than any other type of social organization in history. Doesn’t that make them worth the effort?]
Prove that.
[For all its faults, religion is still better than not having anything to believe in.]
On the flipside, atheism hasn’t caused nearly as much evil as religion. That would probably change if the world weren’t so darn religious and it didn’t take a strong level of rationality to become an atheist.
What’s so great about believing in something? It’s a waste of effort, if you ask me. Also, what if you’re believing in a lie?
^- Before you do the cliché thing and ask me the same question: Atheism is defined as the LACK OF A BELIEF in any god, not THE BELIEF that there is no god, so that question really wouldn’t apply in this situation.
Natural phenomena can be proven by natural evidence, but natural evidence can’t prove a supernatural phenomenon– only a gap in our understanding. If you want to prove something supernatural (i.e. God), you need supernatural evidence. An example commonly cited is an amputee’s limb spontaneously regenerating, but that would then raise the question of “which god?” So I’m going to propose a more specific “supernatural experiment:”
Not only does God have to spontaneously regenerate an amputee’s limb, it has to happen on camera, and the limb should have a tattoo on it of the name of the true god and/or religion. Probably as a result of massive prayer.
That’s pretty much the only way to objectively prove it.
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pap
on January 3rd, 2009
“Not only does God have to spontaneously regenerate an amputee’s limb, it has to happen on camera, and the limb should have a tattoo on it of the name of the true god and/or religion. Probably as a result of massive prayer.”
-i don’r really get this part.
btw, this is one heck of an interesting post.
Abdullah
on January 3rd, 2009
if atheist means lack of believe in god..isnt this is the atheist responsiblity to find more to strengthen his/her so-called lackness of believe? all humans want to be better and get rid of any lackness that they could right…ignoring the truth is just for hypocrites i think…
anyway, in the older times when many of our prophets were given supernatural power(like prophet moses), his people stil said its magic and denied its from Allah..this same kind of story are stated in the Quran times and times again and i dont think it would be different if supernatural power happens now…wanting prove, this and that are just excuses…in the quran also said look around and THINK!! think deeply and not just accepting the theories made by other so-called geniuses…
hope not to offend anyone..
wanly
on January 4th, 2009
their answer is based on logic which surely created by.. a thing.
Haziq Ruzaini
on January 4th, 2009
well.. the atheist doesn’t believe “same kind of story are stated in the Quran times and times again and i dont think it would be different if supernatural power happens now”..
he would not give a damn about Quran.
Anonymous
on January 8th, 2009
it’s them who deny.
denial about superiority that exist in the world that creates everything.
equa
on January 9th, 2009
getting confuse with atheist
Muhaimin Aminuddin
on January 13th, 2009
An easy answer to them is just that yes, everything in the world happens by nature and laws of sciences. So, Who created the law and the sciences?
Don’t they realize that someone has created all the rules that they can’t even break any one of them? Don’t they realize that if they jump of the building that the someone’s rules are the ones making them fall down to the earth and die?
He’s created the world and we’re trying to figure out the rules and we’ve only figured out one drop of the ocean of all the rules. How can human being be so arrogant.