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Why are there always intelligence test questions for Atheists, but none for theists?

Every time I log into YA, I'm bombarded by people telling Atheists to explain how evolution works, or solve a math problem, or explain the Big Bang, or how the world began, or how life came from non-life, etc. etc. Why is the burden of scientific proof always posed to Atheists? Why do theists always expect us to know everything about science in order to justify our disbelief in God? Can theists answer every question about the Bible? Are they all biblical scholars? I admit it, I'm an atheist, but I don't know all the answers to every scientific question there is. I just happen to believe that science provides better answers than religion.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    So in your opinion, all theists are Christians? That's a bit childish don't you think? well, I am NOT Christian :P...... The way I see it, there should be just a single initiating and controlling entity that is NOT bound by the physical and logical laws that it created in the first place (nothing like Jesus or the Spaghetti Monster or anything we can measure or define).

    And why do I find it necessary to believe in this entity? Because from a top down approach, atheism actually has circular reasoning - For example, Stephen Hawkings says – “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” The Multiverse (perfectly possible in Islam) cannot INITIATE the laws of science, as it is GOVERNED by the very same laws. The "God" i believe in MADE the concept of creation, and therefore wasn't created (much like the "spontaneous" creation that scientists tell us, except that this view of God shows obvious start of all the scientific laws we see today). Makes sense yet?

    So, as Hawkins says, is uncontrolled "spontaneous" (more doubt than answer) creation able to give rise to synchronized systems? Actually, no. You shall never be able to "prove" this.

    I can prove that planning, initiation and control is needed - It is obvious that a synchronized collection of such vast systems have to be planned, initiated and controlled by laws that have to have been planned as well. We see that all the time in the real world. I'm a computer science student, and I know the level of planning that goes into even a simple system. Even if it took a vast amount of years, it would still have to be controlled to give any proper solution. To me, this makes more sense than being "spontaneous", "uncontrolled", and "unplanned." As complex humans, even we form obvious chaos if we don't plan and control. You can't deny that.

    Example - you can know all about an apple but not much about the tree that bears it. Your study is currently scoped to the apple, and may have fringe hypothesis JUST about branches and leaves, still to be proven. Though since you only care about what you know now, it is unfair to believe that nothing more needs to be there. With Hawkins' logic, I can simply say that the "Apple" was simply created spontaneously. You can explain that with science, but the tree is there as well.

    In my view, the only explanation for a single uncomplicated God that isn't bound by the laws of science It created can be found only in Islam. I think that's enough 'answers' for one question :).

  • 9 years ago

    I'm not putting stereotypes on anyone but literally anyone that is very Intelligent has sense and doesn't believe in god. They read a science books.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yeah, if we're not Bill Nye, Science Guy or something, they think we must not have any right to not believe in God but if they don't have a clue what their holy book says, hey, that's no problem.

    Eh. Par for the course. Don't like it? Don't golf here. Having said that, I've tried to stop. Like a dozen times. Sigh...

    Take "I belong to God", totally hot, dumb as a bag o' bricks.

  • 9 years ago

    Why do you Atheist always asking Christians questions as well

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    because there are no good answers that atheists can get from theists.

    we dont want to bother listening to these nutters.

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