Peter Atkins - The Joy of Science, the Existence of God, and Galileo's Finger

Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science; Four Laws that Drive the Universe; and the world-renowned textbook Physical Chemistry. He has been a visiting professor in France, Israel, New Zealand, China, and Japan, and continues to lecture widely throughout the world.

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[1tabligh]

@rrdab1 Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?

No?

Then how can the duped atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?

[rrdab1]

@1tabligh Please, try coherent english to postulate your ignorant nonsense.

[1tabligh]

@rrdab1 The atheist Delusion!

How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?

[rrdab1]

@1tabligh Why don't theists try researching before postulating. "Brainless atheists," as you so intellectually call them, are well aware of the origins of matter and chemicals, it is common knowledge amongs the educated. I advise you to get educated, and learn to think before you make such a fool of yourself again.

[1tabligh]

@int...God and Empirical Logic.

Matter or God?

Take your choice!

Some brainless atheists regard matter as independent and imagine that it has itself gained this freedom and elaborated the laws that rule over it.

But how can they believe that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?

Pseudo-Scientific Demagoguery!

[integralmath]

@1tabligh actually, matter does appear to have perception and consciousness us, and the ability to plan for we are matter, however intricate and complex. Oh, and we at least know that matter exists for we have some of it readily on hand to look at; this is miles apart from your imaginary friend - a person whose existence is undemonstrated by any measure of evidence.

[integralmath]

@1tabligh if the kidney were so intelligently designed by a creative intelligence, one is hard-pressed to understand why it ever became necessary for us to have transplant one into someone to compensate for their intelligently designed failure of a kidney. Why is it that your creatively intelligent designer churns out work so shitty that his creations have to compensate for his utter ineptitude by outsmarting the defects he couldn't work out how to avoid in the first place?

[integralmath]

@MrItchyElbow the major theory is that people, such as yourself, who know jack shit about science should stop trying to lecture others on it. You clearly fail to understand the second law even at a very rudimentary level. Further, you quite obviously know nothing whatever of evolution. It's a complete nonsense to suggest that it stops with humans; we aren't an end product. We are simply some intermediate between what was and what will be, assuming our species survives sufficiently long.

[NEVERSTOPJAMIN]

Wtf.. Vacuous crap below!

[1tabligh]

@rimfa123 Whatever is stable and immutable in its essence cannot accept movement and change within that essence.

How do atheists, who believe that matter is accompanied by its antithesis, justify the eternity of matter/energy?