Atheism
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Creationist Tim Wallace has written a rebuttal of each of the points made in this FAQ. (Despite its pilfered masthead, Wallace's web page is not a part of the Talk.Origins Archive.) large part of the reason why Creationist arguments against evolution can sound so persuasive is because they don't address evolution, but rather argue against a set of misunderstandings that people are right to consider ludicrous. The Creationists wrongly believe that their understanding of evolution is what the theory of evolution really says, and declare evolution banished.
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Introduction "Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." - Thomas Jefferson "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death.
Even If I DID Believe ... - net.religion | Google Groups
I am not a Christian. In my discussions of this fact with Christians, I have repeatedly run into one major misunderstanding. The Christians assume that if I believed the Bible were true, I would become a Christian; that is, they believe that my reason for not being a Christian is that I don't believe in their god. This is not the case.
[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
- RichardDawkins.net
Got Atheism? Outside of Space and Time
It is commonly believed that God is both timeless and eternal, and that he exists somewhere outside of both time and space. He is said to have created mankind for a purpose. This is a discussion on the atheist's view of these concepts.
tl;dr Summary: Omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, and infallibility in the creator necessitates everything in existence being part of his design or “plan” (christians say this all the time, it's "all part of god's plan"). The ethical issue can be summarised with simple deductive reasoning: Everything is part of God's plan. Billions of people burning in hell is part of everything. Therefore, billions of people burning in hell is part of god's plan.
Ethical conflict from a Biblical perspective.odt
Debunking the Arguments of Christian Fundamentalists and Evangelists
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