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man-man

Avatar: 156485 2010-01-24 16:36:14 -0500
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Selfish fine upstanding member of society

I have far too much spare time, so I’m going to attempt to answer every question asked so far. Don’t know about Inertia (being an atheist immediately after being a creationist, it puts the whole thing under suspicion, maybe you’re really a deist or a taoist or an anomalous monist Log in to see images!)

But I’m definitely an atheist, so maybe I’ll have more luck.

Apologies for lack of names on the quotes, I just pasted them all into Notepad so I wouldn’t have to keep going back to the original page.

A man ****s his wife. His wife has a male reproductive organ. The man has a woman's genitals. Who’s the man in this relationship?

Men don’t have woman's genitalss. Wives don’t have male reproductive organes. You are calling these people by the wrong genders.

Why am I such a ****ty poster?

Because you are not like me. Try harder next time.

When you are put in a position of power which makes you delusional and erratic, do you call it a science complex?

I would call it mental sickness, or going power-mad. There’s no reason to bring science into this just because of being an atheist (not everything has to be about god or science).

If your house got hit by a tornado, would your insurance pay for it? How can an act of God happen to an Atheist?

“Act of God” is a very special kind of way to say “event beyond human control” and if I was the king of the insurance company I’d have them change the wording on that. As is, you could always try suing god, or if he’s unavailable just file against his earthly representatives.

If you’re playing a simulation-style game in God-mode, do you lose faith in yourself?

The concept of god is only laughable in the real world, being an atheist doesn’t mean we have to reject the possibility of playing a game where you have control over the in-game world.

Dear Mr. Atheist, how does evolution which is based on natural selection and survival of the fittest, explain the millions and millions of creatures we see?

If it’s survival of the fittest, shouldn’t the number of species decrease over time rather than increase?

I say, if evolution were true, we’d have male reproductive organroaches, sharks, blue-green algae, and maybe three or four other species which are considered by biologists to be “perfectly evolved”. All other species would have died out by now, if they even evolved in the first place.

The first serious one… the simple answer is that in a world full of creatures that are all of type X, there will be ways to survive other than being a type X, and evolving to exploit some other niche will mean you have no competitors (if all the Xs eat leaves, evolve to eat the nuts that Xs leave behind and you’re golden). That leaves a population of Xs doing their thing, and a new population doing a new thing. Rinse and repeat for billions of years and you’ll find that most viable niches (including eating the Xs) end up being filled.

if an athiest preaches in a forum, does anyone care?

Almost certainly not. Also you should learn to spell “atheist” before you try to insult one, it tends to make you look silly.

If there is no God then where does rain come from hmmmm?

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle

Once you’ve managed to read and comprehend that, you can take a look at the version on the proper Wikipedia. But don’t take it too fast, wouldn’t want to overload your brain.

Where do we learn right and wrong from if our parents do not teach us them?

The source for one persons sense of morals could be that it comes from the influence of society, not just your parents (other people, the media, any and all human interaction and socialisation).

Even if morality is something innate to a human being, the source of that doesn’t have to be god or anything supernatural; “moral” behaviour could be an evolutionarily advantageous adaptation. Back in our distant past we would have been living in much smaller groups of people, and would have been related in some way to almost all of the people we were around on a daily basis. This creates a strong potential for altruistic behaviour and co-operation to benefit people with many of the same genes as yourself, so a gene that predisposes you to help people will lead to you helping people who also have that gene, thus increasing the likelihood of the gene being in the next generation of people (so it would be selected for, and we would evolve towards being moral)

You can see all kinds of examples of co-operation in the animal kingdom, our invention of ‘morality’ is an extension of that born from our increased intelligence and social organisation. I suspect the development of understanding for the minds of others (see theory of mind) also helped, as it allowed us to make more complex judgements about how our behaviour would affect other people, and in turn affect us when they respond to it.

I can feel that I’m not explaining this perfectly, but the idea of what I mean is there.

What happens when I’m dead?

Worms and bacteria eat your corpse and the universe carries on without you without really noticing the difference. No matter how unpleasant you find the idea of not existing, it’s not a reason to invent a magical happy land where we all go after death.

And why does no one like my itembuilder posts?

They’re too busy upvoting mine.

man-man edited this message on 06/12/2009 6:19PM
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