2009-01-23, 01:57 AM
Quantact Wrote:What I find curious about atheism is that you have this giant universe, we don't even know if it's infinite or what lies beyond it, we don't know for sure what created it, we don't know what's in it, whether we're the only intelligent life. We don't know a lot about our own world, including our own bodies and brain. We don't know how out of nothingness life and intelligent life developed into relative equilibrium.
But we DO know 100% that a great being did NOT create all of it, and we DO know 100% for sure that such a being cannot exist.
Sounds like another religion to me. No empirical proof, just conjecture and faith.
I personally don't get into these arguments because what you believe is up to you. One of my best friends is a bitter atheist, we just don't talk about this stuff. Live and let live; no convincing anyone about this stuff. So, as long as people do not get in my face about my religion, I do not get into theirs in their non-religion.
Why did something have to create it? Can't things just be infinite? I don't think anything ever formed. You cannot create nor destroy matter (Please don't argue with e=mc^). Period. Everything is conserved. So saying things were created goes against this theory. A well backed theory. That to me proves there is no supernatural being/force.
Have a semi-credible argument to back up there is a higher power? I know I am not a PHD or anything, but hey seems reasonable enough to me.
The "universe" could very well be finite. That I cannot really comment on.
Other life? Sure that is plausible as long as the conditions were right. Not like we are that special.