Re: Clownhall columnist: Why Atheism Fails: The Four Big Bangs

On Sun, 06 May 2007 00:52:19 -0400, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the article:
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By Frank Pastore
Sunday, May 6, 2007

Their titles sound so confident:

? The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and
Islam by Michel Onfray.

? God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher
Hitchens.

? Letter to a Christian Nation: A Challenge to Faith by Sam Harris.

and of course, ? The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Yet, like all atheists before them, they still can?t answer the
fundamental questions of origins.

1) What is the origin of the universe? Why is there something rather
than nothing? How do you get matter and energy from nothingness? How
do you get a rock out of nothing?

2) What is the origin of life? How do you get life from non-life? How
do you go from a rock to a tree?

3) What is the origin of mind? How does a living thing become a
self-conscious being? How do you go from a tree, to an animal, to a
human?

4) What is the origin of good and evil? How does an amoral being
become morally aware?



The first three questions could form the basis of a programme
of scientific research.

The fourth could be the basis for a philosophical discussion,
or perhaps a study in evolutionary psychology.

What Pastore thinks he's doing is to pose unanswerable
questions to scientists, and he's doing so because of his complete
ignorance of scientiific methods.

The poor fool has swallowed the lie hook, line and sinker,
that scienc/evolution is some kind of religion, with its own immutable
truths.

I wonder if someone could charitably take him to one side and
explain that science is a process.

A process, moreover, that pays greater regard to honesty than
any religion.

After all, we all know what happens when religious certitude
is contradicted by scientific evidence.

Have fun,

Joe Cummings










Atheists respond to all these types of questions with essentially the
same style answer. ?We know God doesn?t exist. Therefore, since we?re
here, though, it had to have happened this way. Thus, like the
universe itself, life, mind, and mo-rality all ?just popped? into
existence out of nothingness.?

I call them the Four Big Bangs:

1?) the Cosmological (the universe ?just popped? into existence out of
nothingness).

2?) the Biological (life ?just popped? into existence out of a dead
thing).

3?) the Psychological (mind ?just popped? into existence out of a
brain).

4?) and the Moral (morality ?just popped? into existence out of
amorality).

For their many obfuscating words, the authors still don?t improve much
beyond the ?just popped? thesis, if at all.
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J. Spaceman

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