tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post3913803707830010578..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: To Know that God Does Not ExistAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-14651204153826602442013-02-28T21:38:33.925-07:002013-02-28T21:38:33.925-07:00Life arises from nothing and relentlessly seeks to...Life arises from nothing and relentlessly seeks to evolve into ever more complex forms. That's <br />all it does. Single cell lifeforms advance and evolve into multi-cell life forms, which advance <br />and evolve into animals, animals into mammals, mammals into primates, primates into humans, <br />humans into ? <br /><br />Yes, humans are advancing and evolving. We've progressed from harnessing fire to harnessing <br />technology, all in a few hundred thousand years - a blink of the evolutionary eye. And we're not <br />stopping there. Through medical research seeking to cure diseases and slow the aging process, <br />we begin our quest for immortality. Through computers that serve as brain supplements to<br />exponentially increase our functional intelligence, we begin our quest for omnipotence. <br /><br />We are doing exactly what "life" compels us - and every other life form in the universe - to do. <br />And if given enough millions or billions of years, somewhere in the universe this "life force" <br />will succeed in following its relentless directive to its ultimate manifestation; a being capable of total control over time, space, energy and matter. Logic dictates that it simply cannot NOT happen. Therefore, an omnipotent being - God - simply cannot NOT exist. <br /><br />So, the argument between science and faith is NOT whether God exists, but whether God created the universe, or vice versa. Faith says God is the creator. Logic says the universe inevitably creates the life force which inevitable creates God. Bottom line; either way, there is a God. <br /><br />But maybe faith and logic are both right. What if God created the universe/life force and ever <br />since, the universe/life force has relentlessly sought to become God? Like a child being conceived<br />and then growing into the likeness of its parents... What if the universe/life force was simply <br />God's way of reproducing? <br /><br />If so, we humans are indeed the children of God. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-72865879545298984982010-12-11T08:56:52.401-07:002010-12-11T08:56:52.401-07:00This was a great read. I will surely be adding you...This was a great read. I will surely be adding you to my Atheist blogroll @ BlackAtheist.wordpress.com I mean if you don't mind. -Asilee [Az-za-lee]Asileehttp://blackatheists.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-45760607697905547112010-10-07T11:09:01.994-06:002010-10-07T11:09:01.994-06:00To know that God does not exist also requires ther...To know that God does not exist also requires there is something that exists is a specific kind of way - physically.<br /><br />Notice to contradiction. This is called an absurdity.James W. Petersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04421529504165080796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-24138878320997310972010-10-07T11:06:25.799-06:002010-10-07T11:06:25.799-06:00To know something has a specific physical applicat...To know something has a specific physical application. To know something requires there is a something that exists in a specific way; physically. Not only does it physically exist but its physical existence is sensually stimulating ones brain. Evidence of sensual knowing is called an image - a brain-image. And that brain function responsible for imaging what it knows to exist is called consciousness. <br /><br />Since this is the case; then, knowing that God exists requires there is a real physical something stimulating ones brain AND that ones brain is conscious of it.James W. Petersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04421529504165080796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-11272349769212677342010-08-12T01:05:37.771-06:002010-08-12T01:05:37.771-06:00When I navigated to this The Top 12 Reasons To Bur...When I navigated to this The Top 12 Reasons To Burn A Quran On 9/11 Hubpages Hub I said that Atheist Ethicist's readers really have to be able to discuss this link: http://hubpages.com/hub/The-12-Top-Reasons-To-Burn-A-Quran-On-911Cammie Novarahttp://hubpages.com/hub/The-12-Top-Reasons-To-Burn-A-Quran-On-911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-14613705186097990832010-08-11T10:40:25.339-06:002010-08-11T10:40:25.339-06:00How does someone who "knows" their god e...How does someone who "knows" their god exists explain that they also "know" that Zeus does not exist? I know that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and leprechauns do not exist - the same way I know gods do not exist. These are all superstitious fabrications of man.Christian Poppycockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02665585159235700510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-67068507715944364072010-08-11T08:41:53.975-06:002010-08-11T08:41:53.975-06:00Epistemology and ontology are dry, but you don'...Epistemology and ontology are dry, but you don't build on wet ground either. <br /><br />If you don't have a set of standards for "knowing" and "being," the rest of your philosophy is probably pretty easy to topple. <br /><br />Why should the existence of a supernatural being that tells us how to live our lives require any less proof than basic math? <br /><br />In second grade you may do the long addition problems to generate the table if your teacher has any actual math chops. Memorizing the table is just knowing without understanding. Where's the long addition that demonstrates the accuracy of any religious text?dbonfittohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787420987976232701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-62328036717910283262010-08-10T23:17:33.143-06:002010-08-10T23:17:33.143-06:00I think you are trying to wring every drop of mean...I think you are trying to wring every drop of meaning from the dry subject of the problem of knowing. Simply, if I say I know about something it is an incontrovertible fact like "Do you know your multiplication table, dear?" You then may set out, or be required, to prove it, if you had said yes.<br /><br />I think, about God's existence, the best approach is to leave it open-ended and on-going without coming to any absolute conclusion or certainty. Tentative certainties (paradoxical term?)are ok. To make or be absolutely certain may not be socially or even argumentatively, appropriate. <br /><br />In neutral terms, God is unknowable. Whatever it is, it is simply beyond our ken. We have made tentative progress in knowing the universe based on known facts and reasoned conjecture but we have nowhere nearer to knowing God than, say, 2000 years ago beyond faith and indoctrination. All claims one way or another are statements of faith or logical conviction - another form of faith.<br /><br />And as regards to labels - atheist, racist, terrorist - they are loaded with smuggled or contraband meaning: useful in context but should be taken with a pinch of salt to do justice to whatever it refers to.Zaharan Razakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689133789755876100noreply@blogger.com