Articles Tagged with "Atheism"

20/02/2007: Re: A treatise on how religious Atheism is

TomP wrote:

[Atheists] do not believe in the existence of a soul.

Although most Buddhists do not believe in any gods, and can therefore be described as atheists, they most certainly do believe in the concept of a soul — indeed, a soul that can continue to exist after death.

You do not believe in any source for ethical conduct except sources within human beings

There have been several good ethical theories put forward that go further than “look within yourself and you’ll know what’s right”. Arguably, the two that seem to gel best with current observed human ethics are Kantian ethics and Utilitarianism.

Kantian ethics look at the means rather than the ends.

We ask, should one do X?
We imagine a world where everyone does X.
Is this world flawed?
If so, one should never do X.
If not, one may do X.

That is, if we want to know whether it is morally acceptable to lie, we imagine a world where everyone lied all the time. Nobody would be able to get anything done in such a world. (Imagine a…

16/02/2007: Re: Is there an Evolutionist in the house ???!

Dave in Lake Villa wrote:

Could someone please tell me how Evolutionists/Atheists respond to these please ? Thanks.

1. Nothing produced something which then exploded its matter and out of that came personality, abstract thoughts, rationale, intuition, love, hate, discernment and even believe in a personal Creator.

You appear to be asking about the Big Bang. Firstly, this has nothing to do with the theory of evolution by natural selection: the universe was not created through a process of natural selection, but by the laws of physics.

For example, if I kick a ball, it keeps going in the same direction until something (a wall; gravity; friction; etc) changes its path. Similarly, if you set a star moving in a particular direction, it will keep going until it collides with another star or its path is changed by the gravity of some massive object. Simple laws of physics: testable, observable, widely accepted as fact.

Tracing the ball’s path backwards, you find my foot. Tracing…