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  • ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)

  • SCIENCE SHOWS THAT THE UNIVERSE could not have sustained itself eternally because of entropy (even in an open system). Einstein confirmed that space, matter, and time had a beginning! That beginning had to be supernatural because natural laws have no ability to bring the universe into existence from nothing. The supernatural cannot be proved by science but science points to a supernatural intelligence for the origin and order of the universe ~ HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM (Article)

  • NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). How did species survive if their vital tissues, organs, reproductive systems were still evolving? Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic and biological similarities between species.

  • WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! This Internet article describes how evolutionary scientists are disagreeing over all the "evidence" traditionally used to support macro-evolution. I have given over a dozen lectures, including before evolution science faculty and students, refuting macro-evolution. At the end I would answer questions and arguments from the audience. The science faculty was mostly silent. They knew enough science to understand what I was saying was true.

  • NATURAL SELECTION IS NO BLIND WATCHMAKER because it can only "select" traits, not produce them. If a trait survives, that survival is called being "selected." Natural selection operates only once there is life and reproduction, not before, so it couldn't have been involved in life's origins. A partially-evolved cell (an oxymoron) would quickly disintegrate. It couldn't wait ("survive") millions of years for chance to complete it and then make it alive! Read: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM

  • APES ARE QUITE COMFORTABLE IN HOW THEY WALK, just as humans are quite comfortable in how they walk. Even a slight change in the position of a muscle or bone, for either, would be excruciatingly painful and would not be an advantage for survival. There's no hard evidence that humans evolved from ape-like creatures anymore than there's hard evidence that apes evolved from four-legged-pawed dog-like creatures. Read Internet article: MISSING LINKS THAT NEVER WERE.

  • GENETIC AND BIOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES are better explained due to a common Designer Who designed similar functions for similar purposes in the various forms of life. Genetic information can't happen by chance, so this is the best explanation. So-called junk DNA is not junk. These "non-coding" segments of DNA have recently been found to be vital in regulating gene expression (how, when, and where genes are expressed in the body). Read my Internet article WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS!

  • THE SCIENCE SUPPORTING CREATION (Google this title to access the site). The site presents a collage of evidences from science supporting creation and refutes arguments by evolutionists (i.e. "flaws" in design of human eye, "junk" DNA, embryonic recapitulation, age of the earth, fossils, etc., etc.). Also, read my Internet article ANY LIFE ON MARS CAME FROM EARTH. In the Earth's past, powerful volcanic activity spewed life-containing dirt into space very possibly reaching Mars .

  • trumps?

  • chewbacca at 1:34

  • it's funny how he has to resort to being rude to try to get his point across.

  • How did the universe occur though? Science cannot answer it at all

  • @moroney1 HOWEVER, Science would be the appropriate field to answer it.

    You know, just because you say "Science cannot answer it all" does not mean science can't answer it. What science does is work towards understanding and discoverying.

    Did you know that humans didn't know that Earth revolved around the sun until SCIENCE showed it did?

  • @YTChriscc88 So you have faith in science?

  • @moroney1 I was hoping you would've said Hey, good point; obvious point; logical point. Addressing my reply directly would've been a more appropriate response.

  • @moroney1 Science can propose theories that can actually be tested and accordingly accepted or refuted. That's infinitely more than any mythological construct could ever do and has ever done. That aside, there are already scientific theories about the origin of the universe and each one of them makes infinitely more sense than "god did it."

  • @Kalevala87

    How exactly can the Big Bang be tested? or any other theory about the origin universe?

    Everything that begins to exist needs a first cause, as does the universe. The only way this can not become an infiniate regress would be if the universe was created by an uncaused cause, a first cause. You could call that cause God.

  • @moroney1 The fact that a phenomenon such as the Big Bang cannot be replicated in a lab doesn't mean its implications cannot be tested. Much the same way, the fact that we can't fully replicate nuclear fusion yet doesn't mean that it doesn't occur within stars.

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  • @moroney1 Oh, and the cosmological argument makes very little sense. You're positing an uncaused cause to exit your infinite loop, but do so entirely arbitrarily. I remove your god and and contend that quantum fluctuations in a zero-point energy system be considered the first cause. That requires no higher power or intelligence and, in accordance with Occam's razor, I win. Incidentally, this is precisely the most widely accepted theory about the origin of the universe. Your god is dead.

  • @Kalevala87 I don't believe in God at present lol. But I do not like the arrogance and ad hominam attacks by many atheists when people simply ask the question, what caused the universe? You yourself replied to me stating that scietific theory is best because it can be tested and then accordingly accepted, but when I asked you about how you could test the Big Bang you said you could not. Surely thats a double standard on your part?

  • @moroney1 When did I say that? Where? I said the fact that we can't replicate the Big Bang doesn't mean we can't test the theory. Replicating a phenomenon and studying it are very different things in science. Saying that modern science has the potential to explain the universe without the need to postulate a metaphysical reality is not arrogance, it's the pure and simple truth. That includes the origin of the universe. A god would actually only confuse things, as it's untestable.

  • @moroney1 being testable means making useful predictions.Theories are not just statements about the past, but explanation of how our universe works, when you say "this" is the way our universe started, well, that claim, MUST provide predictions...

  • @sinachiniforoosh But how do we know what caused the big bang?

  • @moroney1 We're not sure what caused the big bang, but it's important that you don't make the assumption that because we don't know right now, science can never find out.

  • @RevolverUnit but tvh, isnt that having faith in science?

  • @moroney1 having faith in science, is having faith in our ability to understand, not fully understand, but to understand more than we did before, which is a very useful one, and over history, it has been proven to be quite right. there is always capacity for us to understand.science is not just factual statements, it's a way, that each part of it can be reasoned.

  • Not really. We can use the various scientific disciplines to make accurate predictions. For example, look at the big bang: We don't know exactly how or why is happened, but we can make reasonable predictions based on the rate at which the universe is expanding, distribution of elements throughout the universe, background radiation, etc, and these predictions end up being incredibly accurate when put to the test.

  • @moroney1 Saying someone has faith in science is like saying someone has faith that the Sun will rise tomorrow, despite the fact that we can accurately model the elliptical orbit of the Earth around the Sun. All data points to it rising tomorrow. Faith isn't necessary.

  • @RevolverUnit No thats a category error. Having faith in the sun isnt really faith at all, but using the evidnece of experiencing the sun coming up every other day. But saying science will find out what is behind the Big Bang is having faith in the method. Im no Bible thumper, but many atheists have a fatih like arrogance that they are oblivious too

  • @moroney1 Well, let's just say we don't know yet, but, the strict casualty you seem to believe here (maybe you do, I don't know) is something that is still open for debate, you know there are things that have no cause behind them... but it's all fascinating to think about it, and not knowing it is very cool!

  • @sinachiniforoosh but can someone really be an atheist if that kindve thing is an uncertainty, an agnostic yes, but surely not an atheist

  • @moroney1 the atheist proposition, that is saying "there is no reason to believe in god" still remains true, no evidence, and god is often, not clearly defined.and I know some atheists are... well too sure.My opinion is that we must take the "I don't know" position as a valid and useful position in what we believe.

  • @sinachiniforoosh Youve made your own definiton of atheism there. Atheism is lack of beleif in God, thats it, not no reason to beleive based on no evidence, that isnt the definition

  • @moroney1 I didn't define atheism, I just said what atheists claim, which leads to a lack of believe in god, as a lack of belief in many other stuff...

  • @sinachiniforoosh Atheism is beleieivng there is no God, that kind of certainty is however I would think a bit delusional especially given our small knowledge abotthe origin of the univers, one can say organized religon is evidently false, or that they do not know if there issomething else, but to claim there is no God is a bit too concrete

  • @moroney1 first of all,atheism is the lack of belief in god's existence,not a belief in god's lack of existence!I know some people hold the position you just mentioned,but that is not atheism.However,in science & philosophy,it's always said to assume the existence of as less things as possible.In other words,"nothing exists until proven to exist."this is a very familiar principle,of which many other things derive, like "no one's guilty until proven to be guilty"which is as you know a human right

  • @moroney1 first of all,atheism is the lack of belief in god's existence,not a belief in god's lack of existence!I know some people hold the position you just mentioned,but that is not atheism.However,in science & philosophy,it's always said to assume the existence of as less things as possible.In other words,"nothing exists until proven to exist."this is a very familiar principle,of which many other things derive, like "no one's guilty until proven to be guilty"which is as you know a human right

  • @sinachiniforoosh Well we know from youtube that atheists laugh at theists with a rather mean streak claiming there is n God. Lack of belief in something means you do not beleive, it's semaNTICS TO COP OUT AND SAY THAT ATHEISTS DO NO HOLD A WORLDVIEW THAT THERE IS NO GOD, Its equally a cop out to assert that given the fact that we dont know what STARTED THE BIG BANG

  • @moroney1 what's the caps lock about?chill out.Youtube atheists are not the definition of atheist!atheists can be very different.And the word "start" is defined in a frame of time, but before big bang there was no time.and I don't want to start the "what was there before the big bang" discussion(again,"before" needs time.).And for me,atheism is not much of my worldview,my worldview is most affected by what I know about how the world is,not how it doesn't seem to be.I have an exam tomorrow,bye.

  • @sinachiniforoosh Sorry i was typing so fast i hit the caps lock, thst message looks a mess lol, but again if the big bang came out of nothing how did it even occur?

  • @moroney1 well, I can explain it this way, it's like a video clip. The universe was played at the big bang.and it didn't need any (out of the universe) cause, it was inevitable.(the explosion of a gigantic amount of matter in a very small place is sort of inevitable) now it's not exactly like that, but the thing is the matter that makes up our universe has been there all the time, so it didn't "come" out of nothing.

  • @sinachiniforoosh But exactly how do you know that matter is eternal? Not long ago it was believed the universe was eternal, how do we know matter is?

  • @moroney1 well, eternal in what sense? that it has always existed, it has existed since the start of time, it's a fundamental property of our universe, that's what they say.and we don't need to know what something is in order to know its properties, in fact, looking for properties is a good start.There's no (agreed) definition for life, but living things have some properties (like metabolism, self-replication, etc.) and these are really interesting questions you know, but I say, let's find them.

  • @moroney1

    Fact: matter cannot be created or destroyed

    Fact: matter exists today

    Therefore: it has always existed

    Please find a hole in my logic

  • @igotsachubby Actually matter can be created and can be destroyed, however, Energy is a force that cannot be created or destroyed. Nevertheless your point remains valid and indisputable in as much that there has always been a universe. The universe does not need a creator. There is no hole in your logic

  • @moroney1 agnosticism and gnosticism aren't mutually exclusive from atheism and theism. You can be an agnostic atheist ("I'm not sure there are any gods, but I don't believe there is a sufficient evidence to prove there is one."), an agnostic theist ("I'm not sure there is a god, but I believe there is one"), a gnostic atheist ("I know there isn't a God"), or a gnostic theist ("I know there is a God".)

  • @moroney1 And just to clarify, when I use the word "know" it's not referring to an absolute truth, but rather knowing in the most practical sense of the word.

  • Richard Dawkins, y u so awesome?

  • i bet Richard is a Jack Daniels type of guy

  • 2:53 to skip the intro

  • SCIENCE SHOWS THAT THE UNIVERSE, because of entropy, could not have sustained itself eternally. Einstein confirmed that space, matter, and time had a beginning! That beginning had to be supernatural because natural laws have no ability to bring the universe into existence from nothing. The supernatural cannot be proved by science but science points to a supernatural intelligence for the origin and order of the universe ~ HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM (Article)

  • @Mogley52 yeah the universe might have a perceptual beginning but existence is another thing!

  • @Mogley52 By a big man in the sky? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight...

  • @Mogley52 I can think of nothing that "Has to be supernatural" unless it is made up. The universe came into existence. You are extremely lucky to be here. Stop making shit up! and Dance.

  • @Mogley52 look up membrane theory. answers all possible questions involving ex nihilo genesis in a macroscopic sense. Argument from causation still doesn't work, sorry.

  • 2:56 for the BIG MAN to start.

  • A creationist is someone that acknowledges that there is someone more advanced than us out there that makes our knowledge look primitive. You reject the notion, therefore rejecting common sense. Infinite time and space would evolve things you've never dreamed about. It's YOUR evolution. Don't limit what it can do. This is YOUR theory.

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  • In recent times, despite their being little consensus on how evolution allegedly occurred according to the various theories of evolution, evolutionists have tried to convince the public of the supposed validity of the evolutionary position by increasing and frequently using the term "overwhelming evidence" or similar terms in relation to the alleged existence of evidence that supports their position

  • 24] For example, prominent atheist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins claimed in an interview with journalist Bill Moyers that there is "massive evidence" for the theory of evolution.[25]

    Within the evolutionary science community and the creation science community, Richard Dawkins has faced charges of engaging in pseudoscience and also has faced charges of committing elementary errors.[26][27]

  • 3:04 to is when Richard Dawkins talks

  • 5 people went to jesus camp

  • 2:52 to skip the inarticulate babble

  • @ridonculous34 That was needlessly mean :/

    Not everyone is as practiced as Dawkins at public speaking.

  • The YouTube videos that Atheists avoid like fhe plague-------v

  • (Making sense of sensory information) (There is no spoon) (Are we just simulations) (What is real) (Seeing is believing how the brain interprets vision) (Q Matrix of illusion why we may be a part of it)

  • RD starts at 3:02 - FF

  • Like this!

  • I was there.

    Richard was awesome.

  • what an intelligent and articulate man

  • Twos up up going out for drinks with this guy! Mega interesting bloke zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • you can argue the whole your life but the fact is that evolution is a fact!

  • Same way Scientology qualifies as a religion

  • now boiled down to this? atheism is just another religion, a new idea. The world leader is richard dawkins, LOL

  • @ElenDiana1

    Let's see...no supernatural beings, no doctrines, no holy men, no rites or rituals, no churches, no moral commandments...

    Exactly how does atheism qualify as a religion?

  • @ClumsyRoot because its a belief. you have to believe there is no God so therefor your belief becomes your God. your idea that there is no God controls you just as a religion does. atheism doesnt allow you to believe in heaven, angels, Jesus, or anything Godly. something good happens and it is just cause you cant say karma cause that is biblical. so you really dont have the freedom you say you do???

  • @doeboyfresh863

    You seem a bit confused (e.g., karma is NOT a biblical concept), although you are correct when you say that lack of belief in God does affect one's life. For example, when I want something, I actually have to make an effort to get it--I don't kneel down and pray in hopes that some deity will do my work for me. And when something bad happens to me, I accept it and move on--I don't whine to some invisible being to save me from reality.

    Atheism is a symptom of growing up.

  • @ClumsyRoot true i didn't know the true meaning of karma, the karma i was actually talking of was just basic sowing and reaping. i don't remember exactly where in my bible its say that christians have to ask for things and not have to work to get them? its specifically says in genesis 3:19 that man will work by the sweat of his brow to get things that he wants. and you are very right about christians whining when reality hits people, they look for excuses and things to blame.

  • @doeboyfresh863

    Jesus said, "Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours." (Mark 11:24-25)

    It's not my desire to argue either. My point is that disbelief in God requires people to take responsibility for their own lives. We rise or fall on our own. No one is going to save us from ourselves.

    As for whether or not "God loves me," I really couldn't care less. Being loved isn't the most important thing in the world to me.

  • @ClumsyRoot i dont mean to try and argue with you about this subject but i just wanted to talk to you about it a bit. you have very good points for your side because there aint many christians that are good examples of practicing what you preach and truthfully i havent been either i mean look at my username!!!! lol doeboyfresh???? the bible says how can you try and remove the speck from your brothers eye but you have a plank in your own. even though you dont believe God loves you.

  • @doeboyfresh863

    What does your screen name mean? It didn't strike me as offensive.

  • @doeboyfresh863

    "you have to believe there is no God so therefor your belief becomes your God. "

    That doesn't even make a shred of sense.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Believe what you will, but remember, not everyone is as stupid as you, therefore it does make sense to others

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Actually one has to believe that there are no GODS not just the one you happen to believe in, Don't forget the in another part of the planet you live in, others believe in their own GODS don't be so selfish!

  • I think a Tyrannosaurus Rex should crossbreed with a pig and make a new human race. Too many people think that humans are evolved but what about the Tyrannosaurus?

  • @FluffyFeralMarmot

    Cross a chimpanzee with a brick wall and you get a creationist.

  • @jazzx251 Brick walls can't breed.

  • @FluffyFeralMarmot And creatonists shouldn't.

  • @FluffyFeralMarmot Johnny Morris told a story of building a patio in a herring-bone brick. He was having difficulty keeping the lines straight, so gave up as dusk came. He said the next morning he opened the curtains and there it was, grinning at him.

  • @gamesbok Finally someone who makes sense around here.

  • @trident3b You will see it happen.... and i hope you don't be one caught dead with out christ because you will also have to stand before christ and be sentenced to eternal condemation.

    read Romans 1: 21-32

  • @martinwazhere ok... but can you prove that to me? I don't want to see any old statement that makes you believe it, just provide me with HARD evidence. If you know this you MUST have HARD evidence because you are sure. Please just provide that, and I'll believe you. Meanwhile I'll just dream up my own god and get him to tell me that I will end up with 5 million randy angels waiting for me when my time comes to provide me with eternal love because I had the intelligence to question this crap.

  • @trident3b Romans 1: 16-32. Tell me : Why are you an atheist?

  • @martinwazhere I am not an atheist by conviction, I am free, but it is the religious who try to sell their or even force their religion on to me, as you are really. What do you gain from this? If you wish to believe in something that is 100% unsubstatiated, then you are free to do so. I wouldn't dream of trying to convince you otherwise. There is simply far too much defective (and often evil) and down right ridiculous in ALL the religions, & so, without evidence I won't believe them. That's it.

  • @martinwazhere Isn't god all knowing? Doesn't he already know who will not believe? Why would he create creatures that he already knows are doomed for hell?

    It's a sadistic game.

  • @martinwazhere

    You mad?

  • @itarethetroll No i'm not... :) it will happen. and also those who reject christ will be judged also and sentenced to hell.

  • @martinwazhere Evidence needed. I could say "Those who reject Allah will be judged also and sentenced to hell". The silly claims of the Muslim are just as ridiculous as yours, until Muslims or Christians come up with some evidence.

  • @itarethetroll Romans 1: 16-32. Tell me : why are you an atheist?

  • @martinwazhere Because there's no reason to believe in god(s). Unless you know one.

  • @martinwazhere LOL that was funny. Its kinda sad though.

  • Gollum introduced Dumbledork

  • there are evolution deniers in australia too richard! can you believe it?

  • @LauraKathleen05

    Yes - I think he knows that. He appeared on Q & A a few months ago where Stephen Fields (I think that's his name) was on the panel being a dick.

  • @jazzx251 LOL because he cant be bothered with retarded evolution - deniers its a waste of his time

  • "It's like the sermon on the Mount." Well after all Dawkins is preaching.

  • @RageAgainstNWO

    Go talk to a burning bush. We're not intersted in your faith except to laugh at it.

  • @exchangeisno I was going to reply to your comment, but then I noticed you liked cold play. Faggot, go sing us a gay song, no one's interested in what a cold play fan has to say

  • @RageAgainstNWO Did you realize the term "fool" as used in Psalm 14 more properly translates to "impertinent person" or "irreverent person", so, all I can say is: "That's a very accurate description of an atheist." ;-)

  • if the announcer spoke a little higher, he'd sound like stewy when he's asking bryan about writing his novel...

  • @21porcelaindoll Study what? Superstitious nonsense from the bronze age?

  • @21porcelaindoll Having looked at these passages I can't help but wonder what it is with them that's supposed to be so impressive. What is it with those Bible quotes that you think would convince rational and sceptical people who don't believe your holy book to have any special authority. If you want to convince sceptical people of the truth of your holy book citing passages isn't going to help you, you have to actually present evidence and reasoned argument for why your views are correct.

  • @TheHabbadasher Ah yes, but when the Soldiers came to arrest Jesus in the Garden and Peter took a sword and cut the ear from a soldier, Jesus turned to the soldier and said, 'Do you want a bandage for that?', the soldier replied, 'No thanks, I've got one 'ear'.

  • @gamesbok Ah, well, that changes everyting, how could I not believe after hearing that :)

  • God does exist.

  • @SummerSunshine1988 Probably not

  • @SummerSunshine1988 So does the Tooth Fairy. Why? Simply because I said so. Now Summer, do you recognize the flaw in this type of argument?

    "That which can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."

  • evolution has:overwelming facts.Creationism has:no facts

  • @mastaODI56 Evidence for "Creationism" : Something was "Created" so that it could evolve into ANYTHING in the first place.

  • Richard Dawkins is legendary

  • 3:04 for anyone who wants to skip the MC

  • I'm fast forwarding past the announcer... and yet he still has the power to be boring.

  • My brother dropped dead beside me @ 1:59 ... I didn't know boredom could kill a man!...

  • @Kriimlanga Given that he first became famous through his books, I'd agree that his accent had sweet FA to do with it.

  • @CrixMakin: But nowadays I actually here his voice when I read the books...and it makes them even better :) But maybe that is because English is not my mother tongue ...

  • Evolution the greatest show on Earth the only game in town! =)

  • @neoflyboy: Well.. I think the show of plate tectonics is at least as fascinating :) ( I may be biased) - and taken together both shows are truly marvellous..

  • I've heard that width of north america analogy many times from RD, and the number keeps changing... I heard 6.8, i've heard 8, i've heard "less than 10", and I've heard something like 26

  • @Nemesis000000

    Well - my analogy is of a standard white piano key representing 6000 years.

    The true age of the universe would be 750 000 piano keys. A piano that was 9 miles wide!

  • ...considering how popular Richard is in England that doesn't make any sense. He is however a great speaker and keeps his cool.

  • @tgz1000

    You do realize of course... that where he is actually from (where he became famous) he doesn't have an accent any different than everyone else around him.

    Think about it.

  • I don't think that plays part in his belief system. Think about it

    :P

  • I'm sure that's not the case, his book doesn't talk yet it sells, his knowledge bypasses any dumb priest talking crap about a 7k old earth and a talking snake.

  • @uzimachi1 yes and its funny when he encounter the usual creationist that denie and lie about the evidence and then he smashes there argument u have to admit its intertaining like matt on atheist experiance

  • @tgz1000

    that's just ignorant, sir - he is liked because he is an intelligent man, not because of his accent

  • @tgz1000 That is just stupid Christopher Hitchens has the same accent and so many people hate him.

    You cannot prove it because it is just stupid and wrong people like him because they respect his work in evolutionary science.

    People in England think he talks normal and you have an accent and they like him too.