Sorry, you need to continue the video. It will open your eyes. He quotes some of the most renowned atheists in history and digs into the science argument for existence. Furthermore, there is moral law, and if there is a moral law.... there must be a "moral law-giver".
Having no hope of heaven must be a melancholy way to live...... You die and then that's it?...... very sad.
Oh yeah,.... what do we really know for sure????? What initiated the big-bang? Evolution doesn't explain how life started. Rule #1, every living thing that exists today owes it's existence to some other form of life. What's a bigger stretch, is to think that life just spontaneously happened. This is more of an impossibility than you or I can even calculate through statistics. Now, I say again What do you think you know for sure?
It gets into the debate of whether or not there is "evil" in this world. What is evil? What does someone have to do to be evil? Was Stalin, Hitler and Judas evil? That's where moral law comes into play.... see the difference? Now, if you believe in evil, there has to be good in the world as well. Where did they come from? There had to be a "law giver"(someone to tell us what is right and wrong). Otherwise, there would be no remorse for wrong and no reward for good.
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Atheism is pretty sweet in that it tries to stand above faith by grounding itself in the "realities" of science and hard evidence", rather than the "fantasies of some man-made religious construct". But the really cool thing is that it requires at least as much faith as Christianity and other religions. The faith is placed in a different object; that's all. Plus, you get to live free from any moral boundaries, absolving you from any consequences of anything you ever do, as long as you don't get caught.I disagree there were literally millions/billions of years of trial and error before life began to evolve to single cell much less beyond a single cell....it didn't spontaneously happen. this notion that life just began out of nothing is a false narrative pushed by Christians.....there were a incalculable number of cells dividing and I would argue that over millions and even billions of years the chances that out of those untold number of splits etc would eventually evolve into higher life...
The cool thing about science is its ok to say we dont know.....so we dont know what initiated the big bang or if the big bang even happened like is theorized, I guarantee that as man progresses new understanding changes the current theories quite a bit. However not knowing does not mean that suddenly believing a magic sky daddy created everything makes any more sense......how can you on one hand have disbelief that the universe just popped into existence or that however improbable the chance may seem that life actually did evolved from the primordial soup, but then turn around and literally believe that some all powerful god that has always somehow existed created it. To me that sounds way more improbable.....
.Abiogenesis - Wikipedia
Who says they were religious, religion evolved like everything else, early man was not religious and as religion evolved no one was a christian.....I guess though my point is that people dont default to believe in the christian god or any other god......you are not born knowing who jesus/buddha/muhammad etc is.....the concept of religion is something that grew and evolved with early man....
Evolutionary origin of religion - Wikipedia
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"Such mechanisms may include the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm (agent detection), the ability to come up with causal narratives for natural events (etiology), and the ability to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions (theory of mind). These three adaptations (among others) allow human beings to imagine purposeful agents behind many observations that could not readily be explained otherwise, e.g. thunder, lightning, movement of planets, complexity of life.[32] The emergence of collective religious belief identified the agents as deities that standardized the explanation.[33] "
I'm not saying you are a bad person and that you are going to choose to murder and steal and so forth. But you'd certainly have no reason not to do those things if you wanted to...as long as you could avoid getting caught. If we don't have any sort of universal framework that guides us, then we rely on the collective/prevailing ideology of the day to provide that guidance. Just because more people think a certain way doesn't mean, as an atheist, you should be held to subscribe to that notion. Who is anyone, who has no basis in higher authority, to tell you how to live or act, just because they think the way they think is better? The very example of same sex marriage bears that out. Many atheists are advocates of that in the face of a majority of opposition. Abortion is the same way. Atheism has many fundamental contradictions and leaps of faith.
I was not talking about evolution...... I said the beginning of life. Where did the cells come from, that supposedly divided? Can't believe you are entertaining the theory that atoms just randomly came together and formed a living cell. As much as we know about the laws of nature, you do realize how absurdly impossible that is, right? However, if you believe that garbage, you have more faith than most Christians do. The Bible tells us a more believable account of what really happened.I disagree there were literally millions/billions of years of trial and error before life began to evolve to single cell much less beyond a single cell....it didn't spontaneously happen. this notion that life just began out of nothing is a false narrative pushed by Christians.....there were a incalculable number of cells dividing and I would argue that over millions and even billions of years the chances that out of those untold number of splits etc would eventually evolve into higher life...
The cool thing about science is its ok to say we dont know.....so we dont know what initiated the big bang or if the big bang even happened like is theorized, I guarantee that as man progresses new understanding changes the current theories quite a bit. However not knowing does not mean that suddenly believing a magic sky daddy created everything makes any more sense......how can you on one hand have disbelief that the universe just popped into existence or that however improbable the chance may seem that life actually did evolved from the primordial soup, but then turn around and literally believe that some all powerful god that has always somehow existed created it. To me that sounds way more improbable.....
.Abiogenesis - Wikipedia
Oh it most definitely was not magic. It was done by a being that has trillions of times more brainpower than the cumulative total of every human ever born, including you
A question I wonder about atheists. Do you believe in adultery or polygamy? I am asking to learn because adultery comes from the 10 commandments as do many other rules or laws whatever we shall call them. I often wonder without the 10 commandments where would be. Would murder be something acceptable and stealing. Like if no God then why is adultery wrong and murder? Why have rules if really no God. Everyone can believe what they believe is right. Such as someone might believe murder or stealing is right while another feels it’s wrong. Taking the 10 commandments out of the equation who says what is right and wrong.
