Atheists Answer this?

Cogito ergo sum.

Even if it's a dream, I still exist. Read some Descartes some time before you try a philosophical route (granted he can't get past his first principle since the argument falls apart when you get to the remembrance of god, but that's not the point)

I assume there is some reality besides me. I think babies realise this by the time they are 1 or 2.

I assume some of what I see, feel, touch, ... is real and has some independant reality.

From I can observe, I exist.

Why, I cannot immediately answer you. I exist and others also exist. This I can witness and assume I am talking to other independant beings when talking about it.

From observations, we can deduce there was a big bang at the origin of this universe. There was lots of different chemical reacting with each other in this planet until a few of them formed amin acids which formed basic molecules which were the first life form on this earth. These colonised everything part of this world, then competed with each other, evolved, evolved, evolved, ... until us.

We got evidence for this - in the form of fossiles, lab experiments showing it is possible for life building blocks to naturally form, ...

We also got a few things left from the big bang, predicted by the theory.

There is no god in this explanation of our universe. I dont say I know what happened before the big bang, or why it happened. I dont know. Some quantum theories could explain that nothingness is an unstable state, and there might have been nothing in the universe, followed by the big bang.

For all I know, our universe is eternal.

I dont know, and I dont need to have an answer for everything, or to MAKE UP ANSWERS when I dont have ones.

most intellectually honest atheists don't deny the possibility of some kind of god, and each have their own idea as what that god would have to be before they accept such a being, and then will debate if such a god is even necessary in the first place. Oh yeah...its no different than how some who believe in God (Christian, Pagan, Muslim, Jew, etc, etc) in that belief debate form scriptures if their is a life after death of a heaven or hell till final judgment or when your dead your dead, you don't exist anymore, no after life but wait for a resurrection. Than again some beleive as Christians Jesus is just another prophet and they are not Muslim. The biggest argument an atheist has in their ball park is if such a god exists why don't he clear everything up among the believers leaving nothing to chance and more or less says :OK people, here is how it is, deal with it. More or less. Also the irony of it all is one big thing most believers miss. Believers are the ones who make atheists and most atheists if asked will tell you the same thing. I myself, I am a pagan, but not one of the fluffy bunny types.

Nobody can prove that reality is not an illusion. That was the challenge Descartes created for himself, hoping that he could escape from it, to create an unshakable foundation for reality. Sadly, he could not. However, he could prove that we must exist in some form. Every heard the saying "I think, therefore I am"? If our senses are being deceived by some force, that proves that there must be something to be deceived, therefore, we exist in some form.

However, I don't understand how belief in God frees you from this dilemma, as you could easily be dreaming about that as well. Indeed, Descartes was Christian, and he understood that this problem applied to him as well.

Also, I know I will have to state this again and again but...I will say it once more....

IT IS NOT THE INTELLECTUAL DUTY OF ATHEISTS TO PROVE GOD FALSE. YOU MUST PROVE HE EXISTS. Nobody can be called upon to prove a negative.

For instance, if I were to argue that Zeus or Sasquatch exists, I would have to provide irrefutable evidence of their existence to win the debate. The scientific community at large would not be compelled to prove that there is no such freakin' thing as Big Foot. As with all things in Philosophy and Science, they cannot be assumed to exist without being proven.

I think therefore I am.

I can't prove you exist, no. But I can prove to myself that you exist within my reality. As for a god's existence, you could say the same for any claim. Why don't you believe in Zeus, for instance? If you can answer that question then you will understand why I don't believe in your god.

What if we're all cucumber men floating on giant ships made of cabbage, and we're all asleep on the deck "all having the same dream and when we wake up we die"?

Prove that one for me.

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Your additional details just make you look like a psycho.

Your question is stupid, that is why you get stupid answers.

Why don't you prove that we are not all in a dream?

Well?

The bottom line is that God showing up ends atheism forever and no religion can produce a God. It may take another hundred years, but if you can't get a God to show up, religion will lose. It's not the 15th Century anymore.

hey, you took that from me! lol. i have always thought we will wake up when we die, lol. good one. science is in the process of justifying our existence, btw. they havent gotten it down pat yet, but maybe in another 100 years, they will finally agree on a thoery that doesnt get confused in the few seconds after the big bang. i personally think science could get along with spirituality just fine, if they didnt both think they were right, lol.

I can't prove it, but the burden is not on me to disprove it. The rules of logic do not permit trying to prove a negative. The burden is on you. Can your prove God exists? Can you prove that we are in a dream?

Atheists lack the belief in God.

What evidence would you accept as justifying my existence?

If I come down there and punch you in the head in a futile attempt to spark brain activity will that be sufficient?