Sure it is.commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:47 pmChance is no God.seeds wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:56 pm _______
The OP asks:
"...What is an Atheist?..."
To which I suggest that no one be fooled by the hypocritical bluster of atheists, for atheists (by default) have their own version of God.
Though they will vehemently deny such a thing, nevertheless, just like theists, atheists believe in an "invisible creative deity."
Indeed, atheists (again, by default) believe in the existence of an invisible god called "CHANCE" who somehow managed to "stumblebum" its way into creating the unfathomable order implicit in the following images...
The irony is that not only are atheists closet theists, as described above, but the reverential "faith" that atheists have in the creative powers of their invisible god called "CHANCE," would put to shame the most devout Christian, Muslim, or Jew.
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Whether they admit it or not, chance is the "Creator God" of the materialist's universe.
Yet, according to what atheism/materialism must logically default to, it (chance) somehow managed to create the unthinkable order of the universe.
Well, evidently, it had the power and knowledge to cause disparate bits of (post Bang) quantum phenomena to come together and coalesce into an unimaginably stable and fully-equipped setting...
...from which a wondrous mind like yours could then effloresce from the very fabric of the setting itself.
It is absolutely absurd to think that the order implicit in, again, this image...commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:47 pm Randomly, chance may result in order, but it is random nonetheless.
...is the result of the blind and mindless processes of gravity and thermodynamics.
The only difference I can see between saying something alive and intelligent created the universe, and that of saying that chance created the universe, is that the latter is infinitely less plausible than the former.
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