Archive for the ‘Evidence’ Category
Moral sense
From the IAmAnAtheist.com comment form and private correspondence: I have no reason to doubt that you are a moral person. But your having a moral sense is evidence that God exists. Where else could a moral sense come from? It could not evolve because there are many things (ie. Killing rivals) that are against moral [...]
In: Discussion, Evidence, Morality
Mind vs. brain
From the IAmAnAtheist.com comment form: Given, two things are only identical if they share all the same properties. Given, the mind and the brain do not share the property of self examination. Therefore, the brain is not the mind. If the brain is not the mind, then the mind is independent from the brain. Therefore, [...]
Does free will prove God exists?
From the IAmAnAtheist.com comment form: “If there is no God everything is purely material, including ourselves. Material things do not make decisions, but respond in determined ways to prior physical events. They do not act, but simply react to prior physical factors. For any particular event there exists a series of prior physical events that [...]
A wide variety of arguments
From the IAmAnAtheist feedback form: The universe came into existence at a point in the distant past. Nothing can come into existence, though, unless there is something to bring it into existence; nothing comes from nothing. There must therefore be some being outside of the universe that caused the universe to exist. This argument, if [...]
Tract #41: Are There Good Reasons to Believe in God?
Tract #41, Are There Good Reasons to Believe in God?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks! 041_good-reasons-to-believe.pdf Are There Good Reasons to Believe in God? From an atheist perspective, is it possible for a theist to have a [...]
Possibility of evidence
The below item was left as a comment: This is something I struggle with. You say that you do not believe in God because there is a lack of evidence, but there can never be evidence either way. Science is not structured to make any statements about spirituality, so there will never be evidence for [...]
Pascal’s gambit
I presume that an education of the world has brought you (whoever -you- are, I apologize for not taking the time to personalize this message) to the conclusion of a truth in atheism. Surely, then, as an educated individual, you have come across in your studies what is referred to as “Pascal’s Gambit”. If not, [...]
Tract #20: Can You Prove There’s No God
Tract #20, Can You Prove There’s No God?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks! 020_no-god.pdf Can You Prove There’s No God? Can an atheist prove that deities do not exist? There are a number of reasons an atheist [...]
Tract #19: Does God Exist?
Tract #19, Does God Exist?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks! 019_does-god-exist.pdf Does God Exist? Does God Exist? There are a number of reasons you might conclude that God exists, and those reasons might be logical, philosophical, linguistic, [...]
Tract #14: Is the Universe Fine Tuned?
Tract #14, Is the Universe Fine Tuned?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks! 014_fine-tuned.pdf Is the Universe Fine Tuned? In physics, there are many physical constants — the gravitational and cosmological constants, for example — can be used [...]
