It’s not clear what you suppose the ‘glories of the universe’ to be, or what you think it means to ‘understand’ them, but there’s no evidence to show that people who don’t believe in ‘supreme powers’ are any less savvy or well-informed about cosmology and astronomy than believers are. What it means is that yet …
Category Archives: Arguments from incredulity
What do most atheists find unconvincing about the teleological argument for the existence of God and the resurrection argument for the theological truth of Christianity?
If I claim there is an elephant in your bathroom, and I want you to believe me, then what I need to do is simple and obvious: show you the elephant. If I take you into the lounge instead and say: “Look, isn’t the lounge lovely! Could it possibly have got this way if there wasn’t …
On the watchmaker argument
Do atheists find the watchmaker argument persuasive? If you are able to, I would like you to provide a counter-argument to the watchmaker argument. That way, we can give the readers a rounded argument for both sides. Imagine you’re in a new unexplored area and you come across some object completely unique to you; you’ve …
Is there one thing that even atheists would agree could not have just happened by chance?
“Chance” is a human concept. In a materialistic world-view ‘occurring by chance’ simply means ‘caused by events too complicated or obscure for us to be able to identify’. And not all events are ‘chance’ events. There are many effects of which we can identify at least some of the causes; feeling full after having eaten …
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