I’m an atheist who would like to know if any theist on Y!A can back up their beliefs without referencing any religious texts or referencing any websites affiliated with a religion. You cannot resort to logical fallacies, either.
Posted on May 24, 2012.
I’m an atheist who would like to know if any theist on Y!A can back up their beliefs without referencing any religious texts or referencing any websites affiliated with a religion. You cannot resort to logical fallacies, either.
The universe is amazingly fine-tuned to support life. We have a “Goldilocks planet”. Special parameters such as Earth’s distance from the sun, elemental composition, atmospheric composition, etc. All of them must be perfect for life to exist. The odds that they would all be set perfectly by chance is 1:10^282 (282 zeros).
The odds that a single protein molecule would form by chance is 1:10^243
Everything that happens is caused by something. What was the first cause?
Every single society around the world has a sense of right and wrong. Things like murder and stealing are condemned in every culture. When people hear about these things the don’t say “I’d prefer if people didn’t do that” they say “That is wrong.” From where does that sense of right and wrong come?
Jesus fulfilled every single prophecy that was made about Him. The odds that He would fulfill only eight of them is 1:10^17.
When rumors spread that Jesus had risen; why couldn’t His enemies simply produce His body and show it to everyone to prove He was still dead? That would have easily shut down Christianity, but they couldn’t do it.
Why would Jesus disciples be willing to be tortured and killed for their testimony to the Resurrection if they knew it was false? What did they have to gain?
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Who or what caused the big bang? We believe it was God.
Not a theist, but if I were it would run something like this:
There is a universe now, and with the known laws of physics it is impossible to create one from nothing, but all matter is known to decay, even protons and eventually quarks. If all matter has an end, then it must have a beginning to serve as a second reference. By some process beyond the laws of nature, super-natural if you will, the Universe must have been created. Whatever process or being created this Universe fits the English word Deity, and thus when I say “Deity created the Universe” you cannot disprove me, unless you know of a way to create universes.