What i don’t understand i why the religious ask questions or make assertions, and when they are answered of corrected they say the EXACT SAME things all over again
I mean take this “If atheism is true, then nothing matters”. This nonsense has been answered 1000000 times, yet is it still spouted out over and over and over again.
I was actually going to answer this but whats the point when it will just go in one ear and out the other.
The exact same with “why do you debate against god”, this has also been answered 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times.
There are difficult questions that atheists direct at theists. We do not, or at least should not, pretend to have an answer for everything. There is much more that we don’t know than what we do know. Sometimes this gets translated into “Why don’t you ask (or debate) God, instead?”
The statement “If atheism is true, then nothing matters” is of an entire different nature. In fact, within a few decades after the publication of the Origin of Species you will find Darwinists making that same claim, but in reference to Darwinian evolution.
In the Darwinian view there can be no meaning that provides, among other things, an objective standard of right and wrong. There remains only impulse and instinct, as Darwin noted: “A man who has no assured and ever-present belief in the existence of a personal God, or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones.”
Julian Huxley said one of the first benefits of evolution is that it liberated the Englishman from sexual mores. Elsewhere he said “I had a motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning…For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.”
The atheist-materialist view of evolution, i.e. Darwinism, negates the very possibility of meaning and value. Such were among Darwin’s deepest fears about his own theory: “With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s min, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are not of any value or at all trustworthy.” 1881 letter to W. Graham)
Darwin previously asked in the Descent, “Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind if there are any convictions in such a mind?” Darwin answered clearly in the negative. The other side of this coin, that the mind of man differs from the mind of anthropoid apes in degree only, is that one cannot trust the convictions of his own mind since there is nothing fundamentally or radically different in kind about the human mind.
In the Darwinian view of the world, there can be no higher or lower, no righteous and guilty, but only victorious and defeated.
In sum, atheists may object to a characterization of their world-view as being meaningless and devoid of value, yet they are forever at a loss to provide a genuine ground for meaning and value in their materialist world consisting of merely of space, and atoms swirling about the void with no purpose or final causes in nature.
Whence comes meaning and value, which the atheist struggles to assert in stark logical contradiction to his world-view?
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