We finally have discovered, beyond any shadow of a doubt, how our universe was been created. No, it’s wasn’t by some all-powerful eternally begotten long-haired hippy. Nor was it from an Invisible Pink Unicorn (bless his holy hooves). It ends up the universe was created by committee.
Doesn’t everything make so much more sense now?
The most [...]
The most logical answer to why God won’t heal amputees is that either God doesn’t care or doesn’t exist. This would also explain the lack of miraculous healings for people with Lou Gehrig’s diseases, long-term quadriplegics, untreated AIDS patients and those with Parkinson’s disease, mental retardation, Down syndrome, and a host of other maladies.
Christian apologists [...]
How many times have we heard this one?
109. ARGUMENT FROM LACK OF DISPROOF, a.k.a. ARGUMENT FROM SHIFTED BURDEN OF PROOF
(1) You can’t prove God doesn’t exist!
(2) Therefore, God exists.
(source)
So basically God is just like Dog, but without the benefit of existence?
The new Mr. Deity, with PZ acting as God’s science advisor:
It started to bother me greatly that God’s institutions—ones He was supposed to be guiding—were often more corrupt than their secular counterparts. If these churches were infused and guided by the Holy Spirit, shouldn’t it follow that they would function in a morally superior fashion than a corporation or government entity?
In general, I was finding [...]
There is a Christian marketing campaign going on in the UK asking whether God exists:
A man decided to check his answer (being “no”), which caused him to be arrested. Here is his email to the authorities:
On Friday 18th September 2009 at 3.45pm I was confronted with a questionnaire which I understand was lawfully pinned to [...]
You may be interested in Harrison Saunders’ essay “5 Steps to Eternity,” who believes “we may now be able to provide an entirely scientific and rational answer” to the question of why there is something rather than nothing:
In the ongoing battle between science and religion, the forces of rationalism have been hampered by an 800-lb [...]
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