'The Evolution of Confusion' by Dan Dennett, AAI 2009

yes sir, god wants to fix you and make you into a better person and show you his mercy, but if you refuse then the deserving thing is punishment, as you are walking daily with a pair of eyes that you didnt make for yourself, a brain that you did not choose to have, access to food, etc. etc. etc. but how many times do you stop to thank your merciful creator? but instead you are a clear enemy to him. How do you expect God to guide you and show you the truth when you consider him your enemy??

@shababfilisteen

LOL@perfect world

LOL@"Accept God of coarse?"

"Everything has to have a beginning, except my god...because I said so!"

You see how silly your argument is yet?

"The reality if islam, the religeon of peace and truth."

Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment.--4:56

For him who believeth not in Allah and His messenger - Lo! We have prepared a flame for disbelievers.--48:13

O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you--9:123

If everything must have an origin then god must have an origin. You can't just exempt god from the rule by saying "of course", there has to be a reason. So if god existed, it would have had to have come from nothing. So obviously something can come from nothing, in fact you might say that something must come from nothing. So it is simpler not to postulate 'god' at all, and just go from nothing to something without a fictional intermediary.

?? why are you going so deep with this just use common sense. Nothing goes back to the infinite past correct (Accept God of coarse)? it must have an origin... even if it is a little electron flying in the middle of space, it must have an origin. So that means once upon a time there was absolutely nothing, because if there is even the tiniest particle of dust, how did it get there??? So how can a perfect world like ours come from nothing? obviously the one who sustains you everyday did it.

it is because you watch too much CNN, come back to reality. The reality if islam, the religeon of peace and truth.

You presuppose that 'nothing' is the default state of being and that some sort of intervention is required for there to be 'something'. However, 'nothing' is merely the negation of 'thing', so without 'something' to provide perspective or context, 'nothing' has no meaning as a concept and cannot seriously be considered as a reality or even a possibility.

It makes more sense to assume that the entire universe is 'necessary' rather than to assume a universe 'contingent' on a 'necessary' creator.

"2nd grade theories collected into one big foolish belief system"

One of these "2nd grade theories" is gravity...are you really going to claim that, since gravity is "just a theory", you can choose not to believe it and jump of a cliff and not fall? Sheesh!

Electromagnetism is also "just a theory" - but don't go sticking your hand in an electral socket, this "just a theory" can kill you.

"how you can possibly believe that the world came from nothing"

Who told you this is what atheism is? Whoever did, go punch them, they lied to you.

"How can you be satisfied by mere theories?"

Mere theories? A theory is the end result of the scientific method; in order to be called a theory, a hypothesis must have evidence and have predictable, repeatable results.

You don't even have any theories, just mysticism.