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(or assault, as the case may be) your friendly resident Atheist. I'll
do my best to give a rational and reasonable response to whatever
query, from mundane to left-field.
First Responses
What if it's a full moon and it's raining. Is it still ok then?
No. We atheists melt in the rain.
Have you seen the movie "The god that wasnt there"
No. Synopsis?
when's the next full moon?
April 27th, 2006
How does an atheist decide upon a moral system?
There are a variety of ways; as many as there are
atheists. There is, of course, the straight relativistic
approach. I personally prefer an objective reality, which
then leads to objective behavior and eventually an objective moral
standard that would be deducible through logic and reason. I have
done considerable research into the development of such a system, and I
will be writing a piece on it as soon as I am able to see the argument
from beginning to end and defend it.
#1 - What is the hardest and most difficult question for an atheist to answer?
For
this question and the next two, I can only speak for myself.
Perhaps the most difficult question for me to answer is the classic
"Where does it begin?" question. I find it so difficult to
provide an adequate answer that I must simply say "I don't know."
This is not leverage into theism, though, because I find myself asking
the same questions of the concept of "God".
#2 - What is the most unreasonable thing about being an atheist?
The
answer to this question arises when discussing the evidence it would
require to convert an atheist back to theism. I have to ask
myself, what would constitute a sign from God indicating I should
become a theist again? When I ponder this, I eventually say
(again) that I just don't know. This is slightly unreasonable,
obviously, because it implies that I have crossed a one-way door and
there is no way for me to return, because I would write off any
'miracle' as something we just can't explain yet.
#3 - Do atheists believe in ABSOLUTE right and wrong?
Some do, some don't. I do.
"If you look at all the
information that is located in a single strand of DNA, doesn't it seem
more logical that someone of intelligence put it there, rather than
saying it just somehow got there?"
Actually, that seems to
me like saying, "Look at the awesomeness of a lightning bolt!
Doesn't it just make more sense that an omnipotent being hand-crafted
it, instead of saying it's just the result of chaotic natural forces?"
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