As Cornelius Van til often said, “Unbelievers can count, but they cannot account for counting.” . . . But if every day is an atheist holiday, then every day is a day without God and a moral law to go along with it. There’s no one beyond me who will judge, so why should I care if I’m ripping people off in the name of ‘supernaturalism.’ Penn might find it wrong, but there is nothing in his worldview that says it’s wrong. . . .
As believers in evolution, they must believe that matter appeared out of nothing and life came from non-life. Penn & Teller would never claim that they could make a single molecule appear out of thin air, but they must believe that the birds, the bees, the trees, and you and me came into existence and evolved from nothing into a superheated, ultimately sterile chemical soup.
[T]he superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. . . . [O]ne of the functions of old-fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that long-run civilized life requires.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Stupid! It Burns! (atheistic fraud edition)
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WoW! 2 paragraphs of mostly BS. So many mistakes there ain't any room for logic fallacies.
ReplyDeleteThe stupid. It does indeed burn.
DeleteWell...some physicists do posit that matter appeared out of "nothing" but the definition of nothing is a tricky and strange thing. Particles have been observed apppearing out of vacuum flux.
ReplyDeleteCan there be a "no-thing" if there is no "thing"?
Can there be a deity from "before time" if time itself is a property of matter/energy?