11. "The God of the Gaps"
Ecentely, any hole or gap that remains unexplained by science must be an act of God.
Gasps in the fossil records? No problem, God did it. How did the human eye become so incredibly complex? God did it. What explains the alignment of the planets in the solar system? God did it.
Throughout our history, premitive mans understanding had enourmous gaps. And God became an convenient explenation for all sorts of things. Like tornados, solar eclipses, good or bad crops, rainbows, diseases, volcanic eruptions and more. But as mans understanding of science has grown, God of the gaps continued to shrink.
12. "What came before the big bang?"
Science simply doesn't know. But science will honestly admit that and continues searching for the answers. If you insist on placing God in to that gap, we'd like to counter with our searches that the big bang was created by the supperrestrial creature named Ted, an alien, that accedently blew up his appartment while trying to make beer. You have your unsubstantiated theories and we have ours.
13. "The bible tells me so."
This is a fun little piece of particular reasoning. How do you know that the bible is the word of God? Because the bible tells you so. But why do you believe the bible? Because the bible tells you so and it's infallible. But how do you know it's infallible? Because the word of God is true. And so on. The bible simple proves itself. The argument also works for the Qu'ran, the Torah, The book of mormon, Tobin spirit guide, and the best-selling work of L.Ron Hubbard.
14. "Morality doesn't exist without God."
Well, of course it does. I don't think you would neccesary kill one person just because you don't believe in the bible. Actually, the bible itself talks about salvation is by grace and good work. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by workds, so that no one can boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9. It says that good works isn't enough for salvation, so it can't do good works. Besides, if you want to look for morality, you should stay away from the God of the bible, who decades genocide, rape, incest, infanticide, kidnapping and slavery.
15. "But you can't take the Bible literally."
Well of course not! It's only the fundation document for millions of people worldwide, the perfect definly inspiring word of God, of course, would create an confusing and contradictory bible.
16. "I had a personal experience. And you can't tell me it didn't happened."
OK. We won't. We won't challenge your resurgeon that you heard God and his voice or that you recieved a miraculus healing, or that you approced dead and saw a bright light, or that God spoke to you in a vision or a dream. But we will say that people have also sworn that were adopted by aliens, taken rides on aliens comet, heard adoble voices and seen the image of Elvis Presley invested on a piece of toast. To qoute a hero of ours, James R:
"No amount of belief makes something a fact."
17. "Who are you to question God?"
Well, I'm a human, a girl, blonde hair, brown eyes, I like music, I like dance, movies, books. You're kidding, right? No more than humans have rights to question your belief system without being worthy enough to contain proof? Under that perfectly flawed logic, you can pretty much worship anything.
18."Pascal's Wager."
The argument made famous in the 17th ccentury philosopher Pascal, which certs that you believe in God and your wrong if you're wrong, you lose nothing. But if you reject God, and you're wrong, you'll lose everything. So why not believe? Eccentually, Pascal weighers that it's better to "Better be safe than sorry."
19. "You became an atheist. Well you were never truly saved to begin with."
Any ex-believer relates to this one. Apparently anyone who was a person with faith and then walked away from God must have not been the right thing. You must have been a pretender. Superficial, you did it wrong. In a related note, everyone who is decided to eliminate junk food from their diets, must have never eaten the right junk food.
20. "To understand the bible, you have to study the original Hebrew and Greek."
Well, of course! Why would God speak of each of his children plainly, when he can communicate through ancient texts written by unverifiable authors, rejectebly translated into hundreds of different versions and languages, such as Youngs transition,Holoman christian standards, English version and so on. Also, it has been translated into more than 2,400 languages by imperfect humans over a thousands of years. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, one of the poorest countries in the world, a 99 year old woman named "Kamali" was able to send a perfectly clear unambiguashe and completely understandable e-mail message half way around the world to her great-great grandchildren, who did not have to argue over origins anticity or meaning. For this reason, you'd like to start worshipping Kamali instead of Jawai, I think we all understand.

S Här är några argument jag älskar att använda emot religiösa, som jag tagit från mig själv och mina egenskaper och kunskaper, samt från internet, t.ex instagram osv.
"I'll tell you what you did with atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from universities or any teaching careers, besmirdied their reputation, banned or burned their books or their writing of any kind, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tounges, streched, crushed or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive. And you have nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you." - Dr. Madalyn M. O'Hair.

1. "Carbon dating isn't accurate to determine the date of the earth"

Well, perhaps that's why carbon dating isn't the preferred method for dating rocks and fossils, in fact there are a great many methods of radiometric dating that is measuring the decay of radioactive elements in rocks, fossils, and meteorrides, and those methods can confidently measure the age of planet earth to be 4.54 billion years old. *U.S. Geological Survey.

2. "You can't prove evolution".

As opposed to proving the young earth theory from primitive documents, well actually, man has unlocked the world of genetics, to reveal that all the living things have and do evolve and that similarities exists between the DNA of plants, animals, and humans alike. 98% of the chimpanzee, yeast 26%. mouse 92%, a weed 18%, fruit fly 44%. Evolution is observable, provable sciene. To quote the famous paleotonologist / evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould:

"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefor cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonesense."

3. "If man evolved from monkeys, why do we still have monkeys?"

First of all, we evolved from chimpanzees, and this is like asking, "If america was colonised by the english, why do we still have England?"

4. "The human eye is to complext to have evolved."

This argument is also known as irreducible complexity, this gross oversimplification ignores creatures like the single cell Euglena (evolved antennae for light), molusks and jellyfish have evolved varying grades of vision, plus, consider this, The human eye is more poorly constructed and much less accude than the eye of an octopuss, or the great horned owl, did God care more about the design of the great horned owl than his own children?

5. "Atheism is actually a religion".

Mhmmm, indeed, much like not collecting stamps might be called a hobby, or, not smoking might be called a habit.

6. "Oh yeah? But scientist 'X' believes in God".

That's nice, so did icons like Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) who also lived during the time of dirt floor, bleeding sick people to cure them of illness, and burning witches at the stake, Sir Isaac Newton was a beliver and theologian, he was also an alchemist, if Newtons theory of that metals had magic powers would be true, that would be a difference, but it isn't.

The fact is, *93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject the concept of a God.

*"The Nation" - June 2007. That's not just a majority, that's an oveerwhelming majority.

In fact, this is just some sampling of the republical scientific organisation that rejects the existence of God and support evolution by natural causes:

*Alabama Academy of Science

*American Geological Institute

*Association for Women Geoscientists

*Botanical Society of America

*California Academy of Science

*Ecological Society for America

*Genetics society for America

*Pennsylvania academy of science

*Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Ottawa center.

7. "So you're saying that everything happened by 'chance'?"

No, well chance certanly plays a part in the evolutionary cycle, but natural selection promotes non-random change of specific desirable traits over time. Living organisms didn't just pop into existence by chance, but they did evolve over millions, sometimes billions of years.

8. "America was founded as a Christian Nation" (To those who lives in America)

Actually, the american constitution never mentions God, and the mention of religion in Article 6 says:

"...No religious test shall ever be requiered as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States".

The words :"In God we trust" wasn't printed on the coin until 1863, after a religious church under the civil war did it, paper money didn't have it until' 1957, the words "Under God" wasn't even in the original pledge of a legion.

"I pledge an allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". They were added in congress in 1954, and many of our founding fathers, were either deist, or endilivent about the christian God, including, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Paine, and even George Washington.

9. "The second law of thermodynamics"

We love this argument, since it is thrown out so flippinly, and with so little understanding, in a nutshell, the second law of thermodynamics says that systems must become more dishordered over time, so, complex living cells and organisms couldn't have come out from basis enanamic chemicals, in other words, more time means more chaos, what creationists feel to mention is that this law only works in a closed system, where no energy and matters, leaves or enters. The earth is not a closed system, it recieves outside heat and light from our suns nuclear fusions, fueling simple organisms so that they can become more complex by consuming other forms of life and non-living materials.

Here's an easy way to frustrate creationists arguments:

When a chrisian brings up the second law of thermodynamics, ask him/her/hen what the other two laws are.

When he/she/hen shrugs air in space, You'll know how truly informed he/she/hen is on the subject.

10. Our worse and favorite: "Hitler was an atheist."

Well, actually, Hitler was raised as a Roman- Catholic, here to qoute you from a thing he said:

"I am now as before a catholic and will always remain so."

In Mein Kempf, Hitler writes about the 'Creator of the universe' and that the arian race was created by God, his religious views remains in dispute, but using the name of the history's greatest tyrannt, isn't an argument. It's a provocation that has nothing to do with the concept of evolution or creation. Envoking hitler is an great sign on how you are losing the debate, designed to distract people from the true evidence that God only exists in the imagination of a man.

Av "The Thinking Atheist" på Youtube. Länk här:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSxgnu3Hw

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Hej!

Vill bara säga, sluta aldrig drömma! För det har inte jag gjort. Har berättat lite om vad jag vill göra. Jag vill jobba med politik eller åtminstone jobba med andra människor. Kanske förändra situationen för utsatta människor. 

Du kan bli vad du vill bli. Jag har haft lite svårt att tala inför folk, men har nästan kommit över det, vilket är bra, för vill man bli politiker så pratar man inför många. Fast det är ändå på ett helt annat sätt enligt mig.

Vissa saker är lättare sagt än gjort.

Men om jag inte skulle fortsätta den vägen, så skulle jag gärna vilja hjälpa utsatta människor i olika länder där det är oroligt eller fattigt. Kanske i Haiti eller i Tanzania! Jag vill verkligen göra skillnad för de som inte har det bra. 

Jag blir hjärtskärrad när jag ser på nyheterna hur någon naturkatastrof inträffat där det redan är en katastrof, eller när man ser hur vissa tar så många risker bara för att överleva en till dag. Jag vill så gärna förändra för andra. 

Om någon jag vet har det bra klagar på att de inte är god mat i skolan eller att de inte fick de senaste skorna för hen inte fick, tänker jag bara på hur andra har det. Säger inte alltid det, men tänker på det.

Jag vet, jag själv har varit en sån som bara tänkt på hur "dåligt" jag har haft det ibland. Kanske psykiskt. Men inte fysiskt (?). Jag har mat på bordet varje dag, har en familj och ett tak över huvudet. Jag tycker att det är mer än nog. Plus så har jag chansen till att utöva olika sporter om jag vill och har intresse. 

Jag tycker det är sorgligt när vissa går och klagar över att de inte har den senaste iPhonen eller de senaste kläderna. Förut var jag en av dem.

Jag erkänner att jag inte alltid tänkt på alla som faktiskt har det värre, men på senare tid kan jag inte sluta tänka på hur det faktiskt finns folk som har det så mycket värre än mig! Jag har lärt mig att vara tacksam över allting jag får, och över maten på bordet. Oavsett vad det är. Erkänner åtminstone att jag varit lite dryg förut, men ska för tusan inte vara det nu längre. Det finns de som förlorat sin familj och inte har någonting kvar. Så ja. Hoppas att jag kan förändra livet för människor i framtiden. 

Hej!

Idag har varit en sån dag med blandade känslor. Har för det mesta mått bra, däremot igår så började jag känna mig sjuk... Igen! 

Som tur är så har jag inte blivit det. Plus åt jag för mycket godis igår... (oops, godisgris).

Ska för tusan sluta äta så mycket på helgerna, haha. Men annars har det varit okej. Har varit hos min syster och min systerdotter gör mig alltid så glad! Hon är så gullig,lite mer än 1 år.   

Förlåt förresten för att jag knappast uppdaterat!   

Nästa dag (idag) vaknade jag och var jätte hungrig. Så ja... Men annars idag har väl mitt humör varit sådär. Har bara varit så trött på allt, min systerdotter va lite bråkig, men hon är så gullig för hon säger alltid förlåt kort efter och ångrar sig om hon sagt något dåligt. Hehe, men annars har det väl varit okej. Har mått hyfsat idag, tänkt på skolan och hur skiten ska gå. Det som var bra är att alla nationella prov hittills har gått bra! Så ja, alla känslor är hullerombuller just nu, men men. Så ska min mage bli helt knasig, man hörde hur den körde sitt egna race under provet. Fast bryr mig inte om det, men ändå! 

Har en mage som är så himla jobbig ibland. Reagerar på de minsta sakerna ibland. Herregud! Men nu har jag nog byggt upp lite av ett immunsystem, särskilt i magområdet. För klarar mer nu. Men fortfarande jätte jobbigt ibland och det här får mig att må sämre. 

Ska dock dra ner på sockret också! 

(Gjorde ett "depressionstest" och va tydligen inte för deprimerad. Okej, självklart behöver inte testet stämma, och mår man dåligt ska man söka hjälp. Men hamna på normal nivå).

/Anonym Person.