Comments on: You can’t explain that. Therefore there is a god.

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:31:30 +0000

Stella –

As an atheist, I don’t have any beliefs regarding what you might refer to as the supernatural. I do not believe there is a god, spirits or any other sort of “magic.” I also do not believe there is not any of those things. Given actual evidence that anything on that list actually exists, I would revise my lack of belief.

Atheism is not a belief system, it is merely a worldview that refuses to accept extraordinary claims as truth, without extraordinary evidence.

By: sqlrob

sqlrob — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:59:40 +0000

But at least the religious people know it’s a belief, not a scientific fact

Riiiiggghhht. There’s no people trying to get religion taught in science class, nope, uh huh. Scopes never happened. Dover never happened. Thanks for clearing things up.

By: djlactin

djlactin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:59:53 +0000

Money quote:
“Many theists believe life came about by a miracle from gOD. But if that’s the case, then the universe was not fine-tuned for life. After all, why would it then require a miracle?”

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:51:37 +0000

Mike: Since you asked: http://tinyurl.com/4hzq25s

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:00:34 +0000

Just a minor quibble, Bob O’Bob. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old.

I thought it was 4.5453267945 billion years old.

By: v-boom

v-boom — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:23:51 +0000

PS, I don’t mean you’re deluded in being atheist, that I understand, only in that you don’t understand that it’s a belief system, not evidence based.

By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:17:05 +0000

PS, I don’t mean you’re deluded in being atheist, that I understand, only in that you don’t understand that it’s a belief system, not evidence based.

By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:13:43 +0000

I don’t get this video. Too me it seems just as misguided as the religious argument it’s arguing against. Nobody knows how we got here, nobody knows that there’s no God and nobody knows that there is a God. Fundamental atheists are just as deluded as fundamentalist Christians.

So it’s ok to use multiverse as a scientific argument even though there’s no evidence for such a thing at all. Holy crap Batman, we just don’t know.

Pretending that a multiverse is more testable “in the future” is pretty lame. By that standard, God might also be testable “in the future,” how can anybody know it won’t be?

Seriously people, we just don’t know.

Deluded deluded deluded atheists. But at least the religious people know it’s a belief, not a scientific fact. They’re one ahead of you on that.

By: MrSquid

MrSquid — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:39:47 +0000

Actually, I think it’s “You can’t explain that, therefore *Christian* God.”. Because obviously, if you can’t provide a simple answer an idiot could understand to a complex question, the whole bible is therefore literally true. The same attitude defintely doesn’t support any of those other “weird” religions.

By: Rixaeton

Rixaeton — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:06:06 +0000

#11 This leads to some awkward questions:
1) Does that mean that god did not exist until Bill O’Rilly didn’t understand something?
2) If god did exist before 1), who (or whom) was the person that didn’t understand something that gave rise to god before Bill? Can the position be shared, or is it transmitted from one person to another, like the divine right of kings?