Can an Atheist Answer These?

[eichenb2]

The fact that one can ask a question is not a sufficient condition for the existence of an answer to the question. Typically people learn this between the ages of four and eight; perhaps your development has been slow in this regard.

What ??? :banghead:

I do not believe anyone has proposed such a theory. It seems you are missing the point.
When one asks a question, it IS POSSIBLE that an answer exists. This is what dogmatic scientific naturalism seeks to refute. In fact, it goes one step further and refutes the possibility of posing WHY questions. What is more amazing is that its’ proponents are either ignorant (or feigning it) of thier refutations having been answered by many philosophers. Additionally, they seem to be unwilling to engage the logical end of there purely phenomenalogical ontology with integrity; like Satre or Camus. Maybe Richard Dawkins did not do enough research.

As regards your last comment, Hume is probably a good model for that type of behaviour.

 

[liquidpele]

I am suggesting that there are answers to these WHY questions. Because one is not aware of a question, does not mean an answer does not exist. People normally realize they between the ages of 3 and 7.

why?

 

[eichenb2]

why?

Rationality.

 

[liquidpele]

Rationality.

Why?

 

[eichenb2]

Why?

Because God (Ultimate Good) exists and created everything out of nothing. He is the Truth and Light and, therefore we understand the universe, ourselves, and others. God is rational.

 

[mangy_dog]

I need to caveat my statement by saying that, " I am not calling anybody a moron".

Agnostics and Atheists are walking, talking oximorons.

Denying the knowledge and existence of the God that sustains their live in existence.

 

[liquidpele]

Because God (Ultimate Good) exists and created everything out of nothing. He is the Truth and Light and, therefore we understand the universe, ourselves, and others. God is rational.

Why?

 

[eichenb2]

Why?

Hence…the 1st mover argument for God’s existence

 

[Sonic]

Lets use another coin analogy.

Take a coin, and flip it over and over. If you get 10 heads in a row, you do thing X, otherwise, you continue to not do anything. What do you think will eventually happen?

Silly question…

Where did all the coins come from and, how are they flipping?

 

[liquidpele]

I need to caveat my statement by saying that, " I am not calling anybody a moron".

Agnostics and Atheists are walking, talking oximorons.

Denying the knowledge and existence of the God that sustains their live in existence.

It’s oxymoron unless you’re using some English dialect with a different spelling, and by that logic I can say that all Christians are oxymorons because they don’t believe they came from where I think they came from.

 

[liquidpele]

Silly question…

Where did all the coins come from and, how are they flipping?

From the great Coin in the sky, who flipped a few thousand Jewish coins in the desert for a few hundred years, but then sent a Quarter to be flipped for the other coins so they didn’t have to be flipped anymore.

 

[Shredderbeam]

I need to caveat my statement by saying that, " I am not calling anybody a moron".

Agnostics and Atheists are walking, talking oximorons.

Denying the knowledge and existence of the God that sustains their live in existence.

I don’t think you understand us very well. It’s not that we deny something we know to be true, it’s that we honestly do not believe it to be true.

 

[redhen]

In other words, why does every species of life on earth want to perpetuate itself?

There are many theories, here’s a popular one;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

“the initial molecule which first managed to reproduce itself and thus gained an advantage over other molecules within the primordial soup.”

Sex is a drive. So your question is akin to asking "why do animals sleep?, “why do animals eat and drink?”

 

[liquidpele]

Hence…the 1st mover argument for God’s existence

Why?

 

[Sonic]

From the great Coin in the sky, who flipped a few thousand Jewish coins in the desert for a few hundred years, but then sent a Quarter to be flipped for the other coins so they didn’t have to be flipped anymore.

Oy Vay! In science you may know something, but in finance you’re not doing so hot. You’ve added incorrectly.

The Great Dollar is divided in three parts. 33.3333333~ cents was sent. You should be so lucky if you get change. A quarter is too little.

 

[liquidpele]

Oy Vay! In science you may know something, but in finance you’re not doing so hot. You’ve added incorrectly.

The Great Dollar is divided in three parts. 33.3333333~ cents was sent. You should be so lucky if you get change.

No No No, you see it’s not a great dollar, but a great coin that is also a dollar, but this coin has infinite value and can take any shape, so it can divide into any value, even irrational ones or imaginary numbers. It’s also both heavy and light at the same time, and sent a Quarter, which is part of the great Coin along with the Nickle (which doesn’t really do much so we say it does a bunch of spiritual type things to affirm that it exists), to pay for the flipping that was going to be done, and hence now we use a system of money based on debt

 

[mangy_dog]

It’s oxymoron unless you’re using some English dialect with a different spelling, and by that logic I can say that all Christians are oxymorons because they don’t believe they came from where I think they came from.

So you’re not sure?..

See that’s the beauty of faith. An intelligent person assents to that which all human reasoning and philosophizing cannot touch.

There is a chasm that must be crossed in faith, fully aware that “I can’t understand it with my intellect”.

Oxymoron, oximoron…ox-see-moron…

It’s like: “I’ll have faith when I see the proof.”

 

[Sonic]

No No No, you see it’s not a great dollar, but a great coin that is also a dollar, but this coin has infinite value and can take any shape, so it can divide into any value, even irrational ones or imaginary numbers. It’s also both heavy and light at the same time, and sent a Quarter, which is part of the great Coin along with the Nickle (which doesn’t really do much so we say it does a bunch of spiritual type things to affirm that it exists), to pay for the flipping that was going to be done, and hence now we use a system of money based on debt

In that case, you owe me eight cents for the Pastrami on Rye. You can pay now or pay later.

 

[liquidpele]

So you’re not sure?..

See that’s the beauty of faith. An intelligent person assents to that which all human reasoning and philosophizing cannot touch.

There is a chasm that must be crossed in faith, fully aware that “I can’t understand it with my intellect”.

Oxymoron, oximoron…ox-see-moron…

It’s like: “I’ll have faith when I see the proof.”

That makes no sense, you might as well say that intelligent people are so smart that they can bend spoons with their minds.

Who would say they’ll have faith then they see proof? That makes no sense. You’re using a strawman.

 

[tonyrey]

You didn’t get my point.

Is your statement is linked to the following statement : “If something does not have the capability to reproduce, it does not live”? If so it is not true because the life of a cell does not depend on its reproductive power. There is no evidence whatsoever that the **first **living organisms could reproduce but that did not prevent them from living!

                                            * Since the urge to survive preceded evolution it cannot be used as an explanation of the urge to survive.   *

Did it? What makes you think that?

You stated: “the urge to reproduce is a selection advantage in evolution” as if it explains the urge to survive in the first living cells - which had not evolved. Can you substantiate that argument?