The Atheism Thread - Part 5

[Piper Maru]

I was brought up Catholic, but that didn't stick. I've been an atheist ever since.

 

[Hawkingbird]

Just remember science is a string of theories. They could all be proved wrong in the next 100 years. That said, I ultimately believe there is no creator, and I think evaluation is the most likely theory (but I'm never going to say for sure).

 

[Thundercrack85]

Just remember science is a string of theories. They could all be proved wrong in the next 100 years. That said, I ultimately believe there is no creator, and I think evaluation is the most likely theory (but I'm never going to say for sure).

Well no. Some things are demonstrably true.

 

[Rocanrol]

Agnostic at most.

I do believe in science progress, and its ultimate end in helping humanity achievieng an age of peace and progress.

But I do believe that there is some kind of... "intelligent randomness"; not antropomorphic gods, neither something that could have humanlike behaviour. Like a chaotic force, in a neverending mission of becoming order. Never total chaos, but never total order. Never infinite energy, but never infinite matter.

So, in some kind of way, I do believe that science boost our purpose of understanding the infinity, ergo, "god".

 

[Hawkingbird]

Well no. Some things are demonstrably true.

The only thing we can prove is our own consciousnesses

 

[Thundercrack85]

The only thing we can prove is our own consciousnesses

Are you familiar with the problem of other minds?

 

[Hawkingbird]

Are you familiar with the problem of other minds?

No, and please tell me tomorrow, I have an exam today t: I'm revising.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Pope: Good Atheists are Good

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/uk-pope-atheists-idUKBRE94L0V120130522


That's a new one.

 

[zeroapoc]

No, and please tell me tomorrow, I have an exam today t: I'm revising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

 

[jmc]

Atheist but don't go around parading it or calling people out for having a belief in a higher power. I am that person who has to bite his tongue a bit when people get spiritual around me. Not that I care that much, just don't come to me spewing bible crap as the 'truth' or I'll science, logic and common sense the crap out of you. Funny thing about Atheists is we tend to know a lot more about the history of religion than most devout believers.

 

[Rocanrol]

^That's true. I only discuss about religion with people that talk about it like something real and proven.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Just remember science is a string of theories. They could all be proved wrong in the next 100 years. That said, I ultimately believe there is no creator, and I think evaluation is the most likely theory (but I'm never going to say for sure).

Evolution

 

[Hawkingbird]

Evolution

Spell-check. My bad...

 

[Merlo]

I got a question for atheists. How would you guys feel if you became a part of nature after you die?

 

[Thundercrack85]

I got a question for atheists. How would you guys feel if you became a part of nature after you die?

That's inevitable. You become worm food.

 

[Rocanrol]

"From dust we came and to dust we return (...)."

 

[Hotwire]

I have a few questions:

1. Explosions kill and destroy, but the Big Bang created planets and stars. How can that happen?

2. Assuming it can arrange particles differently: Water falls, tectonics, different layers of the planet, the ways things are combined to make formulas, mountains and hills, flat grounds, oceans, rivers, rivers pouring in seas and their water don't mix or trade salt, and so on. What made these if there is no intelligent design? Or as we say, A God?

3. Explosions form heat, what made various temperatures from a massive explosion? Why is the arctic super freezing and stars extra hot?

4. How come DNA, the base of life is formed?

5. Evolution is acceptable, and apes turned humans? What made those apes exist? If they evolved from micro organisms, what originated them? If they are formed from something else, like Earth's clay, how come humans -evolved from apes as evolution states- can not be formed from the same thing?

What in these omits the need to believe in a God? And what made intelligent societies like ancient Romans, Old days Egyptians, Aztic and Maya, believe in a higher being or more? If science should deny that, they had enough reason to think purely of nature instead of God(s)

I'll answer you with this. I have no problem believing that there is some higher power or God. What I don't believe, is that He/It cares about anything that goes on. If he did, things should be a lot different.

 

[Piper Maru]

Just remember science is a string of theories. They could all be proved wrong in the next 100 years. That said, I ultimately believe there is no creator, and I think evaluation is the most likely theory (but I'm never going to say for sure).

15th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism pt 1
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The first of a two-part final installment to this series, explaining what the words, hypothesis, fact, law, and Theory actually are, rather than what creationists want us to think they are. Hint: a scientific theory isn't a guess, but an explanative study of real phenomenon.


15th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism pt 2
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The second of a two-part explanation of how a scientific theory differs from the uncertain speculation which creationists would like to believe it is. Although this is the final installment to this series, the playlist will also include a sort of epilogue episode which isn't a necessarily 'foundational falsehood' but is still relevant to the topic.

 

[moviedoors]

I got a question for atheists. How would you guys feel if you became a part of nature after you die?

We already are part of nature.

 

[zeroapoc]

Indeed.

 

[Lighthouse]

I like the term "from the stars we are born, and to the stars we will return."

 

[Rocanrol]

edit.

 

[Merlo]

We already are part of nature.

I mean in a non human way.

 

[Rocanrol]

Then yes, because humanity or anything, in the infinite extend of time, space, etc., it's trivial.

 

[zeroapoc]

Not to ourselves we aren't trivial. In our daily lives the expanse of space and time is trivial. It's all relative.