It’s not an argument unless you add in the hidden premise: “Whoever causes a process to begin has the right to terminate that process.” And this is obviously nonsense. The celebrity who turns the first sod on the construction of a building doesn’t have the right to dynamite the building at some later date. People …
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Analogies comparing gods to humans
Q: Is it unfair to compare God to a loving or evil parent? It’s not unfair; it’s just invalid. By your use of the capital G, I assume you’re referring to the traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic god who knows everything and is all-powerful. Parents are human beings who don’t know everything and aren’t all-powerful, so there’s no possibility of drawing any kind of …
If you love your children, you discipline them to keep them from harm. Why can’t people understand that a loving, caring, God, does the same to His creation, especially those who love Him?
Atheists in general have no problem understanding that an authority figure might have to use sanctions as well as rewards to encourage good behaviour. But in the first place, there is no evidence that any gods exist at all, and hence no evidence that they ever do anything of the sort. And secondly, the things …
Atheists often argue that God doesn’t exist because He can’t be seen or scientifically validated. The same goes for love, yet love exists. So does God exist in the same way love does?
‘Love’ is an abstract noun. It can’t be ‘seen’ because it doesn’t refer to a single object, or a group of objects, it refers to a set of feelings and behaviours. There are thousands of such words in English (and every other language) and they’re an essential and well-understood part of the way we all communicate. …
Would you agree with Ray Comfort’s quote: “Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God’s existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water”?
Like most analogies relating to gods, this fails as soon as we examine the premises. In the first place, any fish intelligent enough to form the concept of ‘water’ at all could easily determine that they were suspended in and travelling through a fluid which moved about, had certain variable properties like transparency and density, …
Do scientists believe in love, faith and soul? If yes, how?
These are all entirely different things. ‘Love’ is an abstract noun used to describe a range of feelings and behaviours. Most scientists, like nearly everyone else, are personally familiar with these. Those who are not have generally observed them enough in other people to have no doubt that they actually occur. ‘Faith’ is another abstract …
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