Monday, April 07, 2008

Four Athiest Problems

Four problems for the athiest:

1 - Science Proves Existence
There was a time when certain phenomena were unprovable by scientific method. The atheist claims however that a thing only exists if it can be provable by scientific method. Therefor, for much of history, the theory of relativity, gravity, conservation of energy, atoms did not exist.

2 - Island Ethics
According to an atheist, if two athiests were stranded on a tropical island (Why must it always be desert?) and the stronger atheist attempts to strangle the weaker in order to eat him, the atheist would have no basis for resisting his fate as dinner, since the morality of the act is purely subjective and therefor not empirically right or wrong. It would be disingenuous for the weaker to say even "I do not want death to happen to me" since equally true and valuable is the statement "he wants death to happen to me".

3 - An Atheists Definition of God as "Nothing"
Since atheists generally believe that the universe came into existence from "Nothing", he is trapped by this as one definition of God. According to this atheist, absolute nothingness must have the potential of absolutely everything since it can give rise to it, AND includes the ability to be absolutely nothing. Therefor, belief in a prompting "Nothing" which gives rise to everything is the same as belief in a prompting "Everything".

4 - Every Atheist Either Believer or Agnostic
A prompting nothing, which the atheist suggests started the universe, cannot be proven by scientific means since by definition it falls outside the realm of the physical (indeed preceded the physical) rendering it untestable. In this case the atheist must believe in such a starter of the universe on faith alone. The atheist may also point out that although science cannot prove its existence "yet", it may or may not exist. In this case the atheist becomes an agnostic. In the first case he is fundamentally the same as the believer who accepts on faith that the universe was created by an unprovable thing. In the second case the atheist, unable to subscribe to a belief in its existence must define himself as an agnostic.

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