A few questions for educated Atheist....?

Question

I would like to ask Atheists these questions and get mature answers without insults......

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the universe if there is no God?

How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?

Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible is of divine origin?

How do you explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion (Psalm 22) 1000 years before Christ lived?

How do you explain that the prophet Daniel prophesied the exact YEAR when the Christ would be presented as Messiah and also prophesied that the temple would be destroyed afterwards over 500 years in advance (Daniel 9:24-27)?

How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

How do you account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48 (of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ?

How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it occurred?

How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the number and the proximity to the originals of its many copied manuscripts?

In what sense was Jesus a "good man" if He was lying in His claim to be God?

If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as "the Good Book"?

Did you know that the Bible has been the number one bestseller almost every single year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

If God does not exist, then from where comes humanity's universal moral sense?

If man is nothing but the random arrangement of molecules, what motivates you to care and to live honorably in the world?

Can you explain how personality could have ever evolved from the impersonal, or how order could have ever resulted from chaos?

If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men (Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?

How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and society to this day?

Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers been believers?

Have you ever wondered why thousands of intelligent scientists, living and dead, have been men and women of great faith?

If time never had a beginning, but rather goes backwards infinitely or has gone through an infinite number of cycles, then how is it possible that we are here today?

How can something as small as a brain understand extremely complicated aspects of the universe, even though it is (supposedly) just a bunch of chemical reactions and electrical signals? But at the same time, this brain can’t create another brain like itself, so how can nature, that has no brain, create a brain?

Everyone knows Mount Rushmore was the result of intelligent design. Do you think the human body is the result of intelligent design?

When you look at a lot of creatures such as zebras, turtles, butterflies, bees, lady bugs, leopards, etc., you will notice amazing color patterns designed into them. Who came up with those? Does nature have a “taste” in colors , and does it know which colors go together nicely?

How do you account for the origin of life considering the irreducible complexity of its essential components?

How can the Second Law of Thermodynamics be reconciled with progressive, naturalistic evolutionary theory?

How do you reconcile the existence of human intelligence with naturalism and the Law of Entropy?

How come there are some things on our planet seem that they are especially designed for us? For example, the 2 most comfortable colors are blue and green , which happen to be the color of the sky and most of the nature around us. Who chose those colors to be there , before earth even existed?

Why does the Bible alone, of all of the world's holy books, contain such detailed prophecies of future events?

Is it absolutely true that "truth is not absolute" or only relatively true that "all things are relative?"

Is it possible that your unbelief in God is actually an unwillingness to submit to Him?

-source unknown

Answer 1

How do you account for the Roadrunner physics described in Joshua 10?

Answer 2

No contest!



Athesits have the benefit of being able to use education and intellect to know the truth and escape the child abuse of having religion forced into them to live in reality!



The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!



There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!



There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?



Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!



At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!



The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!



Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?



What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!

Answer 3

So, you think that we should answer all these questions that you've copied from one of 967 (thanks, Google) web pages.



We don't necessarily know all the answers (especially to all these questions), but we do know enough to realize that there's no reliable evidence that an invisible magic man in the sky did anything.



There's no reliable evidence for God/Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Zeus, Odin, Quetzlcoatl, Vishnu, Thor, Shiva, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshiped. If any of the major gods existed, there would be reliable evidence. Since no such evidence exists, these gods do not exist. There's also extensive evidence that they are all just myths, created to help soothe our fear of death, and perpetuated through religion to subjugate the underclass into obedience.



Science has shown that there's no need for gods to explain the traditional reasons for a god -- origin of the universe, origin of life, origin of species, origin of humans, origin of morality. Science also shows us the psychological reasons that people believe in god(s). See the 1st link for the video, "Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods" or buy his book at the 2nd link.



All reliable evidence points to Jesus Christ being just a myth. There is no reliable evidence that Jesus even existed, and significant evidence that he didn't. The evidence is in the Bible, the other religions of the time, and the lack of writings about Jesus by historians of the time.



The story of Jesus can be shown to be just a myth created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled together out of stories from the Old Testament and previous gods and myths -- created in the 40's and 50's by Paul of Tarsus (who exhibited symptoms of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ talking to him), the other apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels in the 70's or later, and many other people. The reliable evidence for this is overwhelming.

Answer 4

In the beginning man made the gods.Man needs a god. so he created not one but many.And along come the roman empire.and they did every thing in the power to destroy it. But try as the did with all of there wisdom they failed .

So thy had the finest brains the world had ever seen and in this wisdom thy come up with

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.( To put it so we can follow it ) thy could not stop it so thy made it there church and put their man at the top and called him POPE. And to this day thy are at the top of all religion .It was them that dug up all the thing about the man called Jesus and thy realised there was lot of money to be made and to this day thy take money of the poor.

For many many years it was only the so called educated that could read the Bible and thy even made money out of that by charging the uneducated ones money for it by writing it on a card . And man to this day has to have a religion.If you are educated and at the top you will go to your church and be among the same sort of people that keep you there.

How do you tell a little boy or girl that there mum or father is in that hole in the ground and he has not done to heaven, because the Bible does not say that we all go there.So man say's this but people think it is written well have a good look .

Now you did ask for the educated none believers to answer.Sorry but as you see the way that this is put together and with the bad spelling, that I am fare from educated.So if a dummy like me can see it for what it is. Why do you not see it for yourselves.

Answer 5

Many of your questions are related to biblical prophecy. The fact is that you do not know for a FACT that these prophecies "came true". You do not know for a FACT whether they were written before or after the event.



Also, all religions make a prophecy. People that believe deeply in these religions will then attempt to make that prophecy come true. To me, a true prophecy will happen even if it is ignored - but nobody does that. See: Israel!



As for brains not creating other brains like them? You haven't been keeping up with modern science, have you?



Honestly, your intelligent questions were once again not intelligent. They are an attempt to proselytize and preach. And i'm not saying that to be mean or ugly - I am saying that when any chrisitan/believer/etc attempts their version of an "intelligent" or "logical" debate, it always winds up as preaching.

Answer 6

Baailaak, I have a real life, so I do not have time to read this book and reply to it. I suggest that you get a real life as well. It is a tactic of some believers to dish out so much "ma si" that it takes days to reply to it properly. That is Trolling.

Where is this high degree of design and order you mention? That opinion is quite subjective. There is much disorder in the universe. Read about the Laws of Thermodynamics, rather than AnswerInGenesis! It is illogical to invent a more complex idea to try to explain one that already seems complex enough. That is "passing the buck". How do you explain this god you invent? How was it created? If you say your god always existed, Occam's razor says it is better to just say the Universe always existed and need no creator. "God did it" does not explain anything at all.

How do you explain the reality of places and some people and events in the 007 novels? Any fiction can have some real people and places in it. Next question!

There are no Bible prophecies that have come true. Fiction invented to confirm earlier fiction does not prove the predictions were true. ... ... ...

No it is not possible that I am unwilling to submit to God any more than your unbelief in Yu Ti our Chinese Jade Emperor of Heaven is an unwillingness to submit to him. How illogical can anyone be? You win a prize for terribly bad reasoning! How can anyone submit to fictional characters? Do you submit to James Bond?

Answer 7

1. A magical god doesn't require order and design, things could exist all willy nilly, for things to exist without a god, it can only occur where there is a high degree of order and consistent 'laws'.



2. Historical fiction, there is many historical facts found in the pages of Spider-man comics as well, it doesn't make Spider-man real.



3. It is easy for prophecies to succeed in fiction when the sequel in which they are fufilled is written after the prophecies. This happens in the Matrix trilogy, but it doesn't make it true.



4. See #3.



5. See #3



6. Ok, this it looks like a lot of these are going to be see #3.

Answer 8

Every one of your questions is based on private interpretation and speculation.



Q: How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the universe if there is no God?

A: There's plenty of chaos in the Universe.



Q: How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?

A: Just because they mention a few places and historical characters in the Bible does not make the other fictional characters real.

Answer 9

I am not an Aithest, however I think this needs to be said. There is a scientific and religious explanation for everything you asked, and there is nothing science says that in anyway takes away from or aims to disprove God or anything in the Bible. The big bang theory shows how the universe came to be from single event billions of years ago and how over a period of time the earth was formed, and evolution shows how over a period of time life began on our planet, this does not in anyway take away from the creation stories of any major religion. The problem is ultra conservative Christians who unlike the rest of us use the Bible to justify things like hatred of gays, blacks, jews, muslims, you name it there are groups that use the Bible to justify hatred of others, and they go out on rants about how science is evil and we have to get creationsim into science class etc because mainstream religious groups and modern science disaprove of and disagree with them.

Answer 10

A. There is as much chaos.Order has been shown to emerge from chaos.



B. How can you explain that there is no archeological evidence supporting the existence of Nazareth during Jesus's time.



C. Name one that' not so vague that anyone could have read into it like the prophesies of Nostradamus.



FFS............. do what the first responder said. One at a time.



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Answer 11

A little suggestion, you may want to break this post up into individual questions and ask them separately because I doubt many are going to read all of that let alone answer every question in one shot.



I 'll answer your first question...



The universe is not ordered, it is full of chaos. As far as design goes I don't see any and if I were to say it was designed then I would say it was very poorly designed, there are animals with better eyesight then us, our amusement park was put in the middle of a garbage dump and so on. There are so many things that go wrong with the "design" that design seems very unlikely and there is

much evidence, observation and theory that can explain many of the complexities of the universe and life on earth.

Answer 12

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the universe if there is no God?



Argument from personal incredulity



How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?



Examples? New York and Empire State building is not evidence for the existence of King Kong or Spiderman.



Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible is of divine origin?



Lying for Jesus is still lying. Stop it.

Answer 13

The question and answer format is intended to be used one question at a time. While this question is not only a violation of the community guidelines it is also an example of the "Many Questions Fallacy" -- which is considered to be an improper argumentation in reasoning - resulting in a misconception or erroneous presumption.



http://dougwalton.ca/papers%20in%20pdf/99interrog.pdf

Answer 14

Waaaaaaaaaaaay too many questions here in your copy and paste. Ask one at a time.



I will answer your last one though: no. I simply don't believe in your god any more than I believe in Krishna, Allah, Yahweh, the goddess, Mithra, Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Thor... Am I "unwilling" to "submit" to all the millions of gods I don't believe in? No. Are YOU? Does your lack of belief in those millions of gods mean you are unwilling to submit to them? Do you secretly believe they are real? No? I don't either.



~Ex-Christian; agnostic atheist

Answer 15

Your need to post these list of question is the proof that the tree of knowledge deal was highly overrated by your invisible friend.....

Answer 16

Try asking one question at a time. No one is going to spend the time to answer 50 questions in a single post.

Answer 17

Too much waste of time and space. Just give one proof of god and the issue is resolved.

Answer 18

oops thought you were some one with an actual question not a copy and paste. All these questions are on another website. Waste of time. all these questions are already answered by science.

Answer 19

Don't be a cheapskate. Spend 5 points for each question by itself.

Answer 20

Considering that every question of yours is based on false assumptions and lies I'll say this: 0 of 10 for unoriginality.

Answer 21

Is it possible that your unbelief in God is actually an unwillingness to submit to Him?

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Yes, because of deception and rebellion.



Forgiveness for both is easy, like this.

The Instructions:

Dan 10:12

Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.



Chronicles 7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.



.Action:

Be Humble.

Pray

Seek

Turn



The promise for those who do, is God's revealing Spirit.



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Answer 22

You're assuming I'm willing to waste this much time on an idiot who didn't even bother to write his own question and who'll just go "lol but my sky daddy still did it".

Answer 23

Someone has been reading too much "Answers In Genesis".

Answer 24

I can give you intelligent answers but I don't have all day.

Answer 25

Email me these questions. I will address them one at a time on my own leisure.

Answer 26

I tip my hat to the one who programmed you.

God is imaginary.

~

Answer 27

Are there even educated atheists?



"A child educated only at school is uneducated"

Answer 28

"-source unknown"



That pretty much sums up the question.

Answer 29

Most of them can't read text this big.