atheist paradox

[Kidlicious]

Not really surprising, as many religious people have theological reasons not to accept the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Whereas atheists can have a self/ideology serving bias towards there being ETs.

It's just the thing about claiming that you don't believe anything without proof. But we knew that was horsepoo.

[Proteus_MST]

It's just the thing about claiming that you don't believe anything without proof. But we knew that was horsepoo.

Atheism just means that people don't believe in any divine entities.
Atheists may still believe in many other things, like Horoscopes, UFOs, conspiracy theories and many more

[Lorizael]

AFAIK actually science say that "We don't know" and then there was something.
Because we cannot draw conclusions about anything that was before the Big Bang

Yeah, but scientists and science communicators share a lot of the blame in this. It's cool to think of something coming from nothing and the moment of creation and all that jazz. Here's what can be said confidently: there are some relatively simple equations describing the evolution of the universe over time. You can run these equations backward and see the universe getting smaller, denser, and hotter. At a certain point, the universe is so small, dense, and hot that the laws of physics as we currently understand them no longer provide an adequate description of what's going on. This point is about 13.8 billion years ago. That's it.

[Elok]

This is another area where science could learn from religion. As far back as the eighties, certain American religious leaders discovered that running records backwards would cause them to say bizarre, confusing, and sometimes frightening things. The correct response, they discovered, was to burn the records and accuse the people who made them of worshiping Satan. Have you tried that? It might even be true, if by chance Jack Parsons was involved in that field of cosmology.

[Kidlicious]

Atheism just means that people don't believe in any divine entities.
Atheists may still believe in many other things, like Horoscopes, UFOs, conspiracy theories and many more

The atheists that believe in UFOs just know what memes say.

[Berzerker]

genisis 1.1 says: there was nothing and then there was something science says: there was nothing and then there was something. some people are.... little kids and don't want to man up. that's their prerogative

1:1 says Heaven and Earth were made in the beginning but they dont show up until the 2nd and 3rd days

the story of creation begins with 1:2 and the first act of creation appears in 1:3 with the appearance of light and its division from the darkness

[Lorizael]

This is another area where science could learn from religion. As far back as the eighties, certain American religious leaders discovered that running records backwards would cause them to say bizarre, confusing, and sometimes frightening things. The correct response, they discovered, was to burn the records and accuse the people who made them of worshiping Satan. Have you tried that? It might even be true, if by chance Jack Parsons was involved in that field of cosmology.

Burning things is for experimentalists. You don't want to put theorists near flammable materials unless you're contemplating insurance fraud.

[Kidlicious]

Burning things is for experimentalists. You don't want to put theorists near flammable materials unless you're contemplating insurance fraud.

Who built the Atom Bomb?

[Kidlicious]

1:1 says Heaven and Earth were made in the beginning but they dont show up until the 2nd and 3rd days

the story of creation begins with 1:2 and the first act of creation appears in 1:3 with the appearance of light and its division from the darkness

Yeah. It says the Earth was formless in the beginning. God doesn't create until 1:3.

[onejayhawk]

Atheism just means that people don't believe in any divine entities.
Atheists may still believe in many other things, like Horoscopes, UFOs, conspiracy theories and many more

Those people are called agnostic which is a different group, with little or no overlap. To be an atheist one must affirmatively assert that there is no God.

J

[Kidlicious]

This is another area where science could learn from religion. As far back as the eighties, certain American religious leaders discovered that running records backwards would cause them to say bizarre, confusing, and sometimes frightening things. The correct response, they discovered, was to burn the records and accuse the people who made them of worshiping Satan. Have you tried that? It might even be true, if by chance Jack Parsons was involved in that field of cosmology.

I always thought this was incredible since playing the records forwards usually gave you a pretty clear message from Satan.

[Lorizael]

Those people are called agnostic which is a different group, with little or no overlap. To be an atheist one must affirmatively assert that there is no God.

J

It's true. To be an official atheist you have to make a pilgrimage to the Heathen Headquarters--Las Vegas--and swear on an original printing of On the Origin of Species that there is no god. Only then will they gave you a card.

[onejayhawk]

It's true. To be an official atheist you have to make a pilgrimage to the Heathen Headquarters--Las Vegas--and swear on an original printing of On the Origin of Species that there is no god. Only then will they gave you a card.

You make light of it, but atheism is a religion with all the bells and whistles.

J

[Elok]

I am quite certain that Orthodox Christianity, at least, is a religion, and while we do have bells, I have never yet seen a whistle. Are there supposed to be liturgical whistles? That sounds like it'd get annoying very quickly.

[Lorizael]

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Nah, it's not.