A Study on Atheism
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Atheism Vs. Agnosticism
Atheism Vs. Agnosticism
Or you could say positive atheism vs. negative atheism.
Atheism says that no God exist. The evidence according to them points to God not existing.
Agnostic says we cannot know for sure. Agnostic will tell you their is no way to test rather the supernatural exist so we really cannot say one way or another.
Atheism is a more philosophical worldview. Agnostics more New Age and feelings.
Atheist are more militant (Richard Dawkins). Agnostic are more nonchalant (Neil deGrasse Tyson).
I would classify atheism as a faith system. They are very passionate on their belief of no God. Have unofficial doctrine (philosophical arguments). Have organizations.
Refer to atheist organization list.
Atheism is a hope in self.
Atheism and Science
Atheism and Science
We all know that evolutionary theory and the Big Bang is a major part of atheist belief. Atheist will tell you they follow and believe science. When the evidence is examined we see that is not true. Science does not back atheist beliefs in evolution and the big bang. Often if pressed right the will make bizarre statements trying to cope of the lack of evidence.
Dr. Richard Dawkins on God & Intelligent Design - YouTube
So even in atheism at a point they have to exercise faith in something they have not seen.
Science against evolution
Evolution depends on macroevolution which depends on mutations happening. Their is one major problem mutations destroy info, not create. It has never once been observed mutations creating info. For the world to exist today with all its organisms, billions of mutations would have had to happen. Evolutionary theory came about in the 1840s. Genetic studies came about around the 1950s. Almost 200 years of evolutionary theory. 70 years of genetic studies and their is still no evidence to make it law.
Evolutionary theory is disputable…its theory not law.
Common genes is not necessarily evidence for a common ancestor. Can also be used to argue for a common designer.
Genetic entropy the decaying coming from mutations also points to the earth not being billions of years old. If it was because of the entropy their would be some very genetically messed up organisms.
Science Against the Big Bang
The Big Bang is theory, not fact. Even though it is taught as the only way to believe. Its basis is in lots of guess and scientific imagination. Scientist will tell you that between the explosion and 370,000 years in they really have no evidence of what was going on or how it supposedly got to that point 370,000 years in. They will only deeply hypothesis. They will start talking about quantum gravity (theoretical pysics on gravity at the quantum level) and repulsive gravity (gravity that repels rather than pulls).
They also will tell you they cannot test the big bang theory because we cannot replicate the heat of temperatures that were present in the singularity that exploded.
They will tell you laws we observe now may not have existed seconds before the explosion. Also most scientist now will admit chaos should exist not order should exist from the big bang.
As scientist are pushed to explain what was before the big bang or what caused it they have came up with some interesting theories.
To start with they will tell you big bangs may go infinity back.
Big Bounce Model- the universe is infinitely expanding and contracting. Supposedly the big bang is just one of many.
Multiverse model- is the theory their are multiple universes floating around with big bangs constantly happening forming new ones. Dark matter and dark energy supposedly may be the overlapping of the universes.
Instead of admitting their theories don’t work any, scientist just keep throwing on more theories to attempt to cover the flaws in their current theories.
Why do we not see singularitys exploding now with great force?
Also the big bang has the three laws of thermodynamics working against it.
The First Law of Thermodynamics, also known as the Law of the Conservation of Energy, says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form.
Big Bang needed energy to be created, thats why you get the big bounce theory.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, also known as the Law of Increased Entropy, says that over time the state of disorganization or entropy in a system will always increase.
So everything should be moving towards disorder. Which it is, but when the big bang happened it would move to order until peeking. When was this point?
The Third Law of Thermodynamics says that a perfect crystalline structure at absolute zero temperatures will have zero disorder or entropy.
What caused movement to start? Every cause has an effect
So as you can see from a very basic overview atheist don’t believe in strong science but imaginative science.
Atheist and Religion
Atheist and Religion
From atheistic viewpoint religion is an evolutionary coping mechanism for death and suffering. Atheist see themselves in a state of enlightenment. They supposedly have been awaken to these truths and came to peace with death and suffering.
How does morals work?
Some would say it is a system of beliefs that formed to benefit us all. But by who’s standard. Morals goes against evolution. Evolution is survival of the fittest. What do you have to truly base your morality on if their is not a high being to base it upon? In an atheistic world anything goes. That is why we are seeing such a moral decline in our country.
Out of atheism you really see the birth of communism.
Atheist and Christians
Atheist and Christians
Not all, but in my experience most atheist act hostile towards Christians.
What do atheist think about Jesus? The majority of atheist will tell you Jesus existed, if they deny his existence more than likely your not going to get anywhere in the conversation.
Historically Jesus existed. The Bible serves as historical proof as well as several secular writings from the first century do. Thye don’t believe though he was truly God, just a very religious man and leader.
The Four Atheistic Horsemen
The Four Atheistic Horsemen
The form of atheism we see now is heavily influenced by four men.
Christopher Hitchens-(13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Hitchens eventually stopped describing himself as a socialist, but he continued to identify as a Marxist, supporting Marx's materialist conception of history. Hitchens described himself as an anti-theist, who saw all religions as false, harmful and authoritarian. He argued for free expression and scientific discovery, and asserted that they were superior to religion as an ethical code of conduct for human civilization. He also advocated separation of church and state. The dictum "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" has become known as Hitchens's razor.
Richard Dawkins- (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
Sam Harris- (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and Islam in particular.
Daniel Dennett- (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.