Ask an Atheist MNSU Part I

Campus Atheists and Agnostics hosted an open forum event at Minnesota State University Mankato to inform the public about atheism and answer questions to those who were free to attend. RECORDED: 4/17/08

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[Nosremesice]

@stryeker The -1 and +1 are transient and pop in and out of existence at NEARLY receptacle infinity seconds. Sometimes -1 and +1 particles form stable interactions with each other by increasing the rate at which other formations of particles transition back to "nothingness." The formation of stable complex particles of existence increases the rate of universal entropy. In other words, on the quantum level, our universe is in a sort of dynamic equilibrium between existence and nothingness.

[stryeker]

@Nosremesice So did the -1 and the +1 create themselves or were they always in existence like God?

[Nosremesice]

@stryeker (Continued) I can understand why you would come to the conclusions that you have, however, your answer is kind of lazy and devoid of any true power of universal explanation. True answers tend to be falsifiable and knowledge of them tend to produce practical application.

[Nosremesice]

@stryeker No, you are incorrect. It is quite possible for something to EQUAL nothing while itself is something.

(-1)+1=0

Therefore, it is possible for literally "nothing" to spontaneously fluctuate to become "something" so long as the "something" ultimately EQUALS "nothing" These are called vacuum fluctuations and the "somethings" are called virtual particles. Therefore our universe is "something" that EQUALS "nothing."

[stryeker]

@Nosremesice (Continued) How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence.

[stryeker]

@Nosremesice The question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

[Nosremesice]

@stryeker By your logic God couldn't have created himself. What created God?

[stryeker]

To say that the universe came from no God must have meant it existed before itself and that existed before itself and so on...Nothing can create itself, I didn't make myself, I was from my parents. So now to say there is no God falls under the category of logical absurdity. Discuss this at your next Atheist gathering.

[MultiSolucion]

monek = monky im sorry for mine errors of writing but i have 1 bad eye,,

[MultiSolucion]

people think in the whole world so intellectual more then animales .... if peopl are so intellectual , how they cant not express / explain themself ?? isnt this remarkable??? there is a monek call michael he learn 500 words , he he told that he remeber how people shoot him mother in the jungle when he was 3 month , who who are intellectual ?????? wath dicoverychannel , praise the lord