Atheism: A Foolish Gamble?

Question

Atheists are broadly known for discrediting the existence of God and embracing the theory of evolution to explain human origin.

Question for Atheists
Are you willing to spend an eternity in hell because you believe a theory that a man made less than two centuries ago is more credible than the knowledge of God, which is eternal and has been known to man for millennia

Evolution has many flaws, while Christianity has misunderstandings and poor interpretations to some men
(God cannot be rationalized or totally comprehended by men, he is to great and to wise, but he does give us some revelation and understanding through his word, the Bible and his Spirit

Atheists most likely believe the following:

we are insignificant, purposeless, accidents who came about by spontaneity and random chance due to some "big bang" or big lie,

we came from single celled organism blobs and apes........

Atheists believe in missing links, but can't find them because they never exist,

Atheists can’t explain why there are no more transitional beings

who can't find the necessary millions of transitional being skeletons from ape to man, that Darwin said is the only way to truly prove evolution, yet they still believe it as truth

the bible says the "unbelieving" will not inherit the kingdom of God. Because you will never come to a God who you don’t believe exists

the Bible says he tha loves not abides in death, in religion that advocates hatred(the thue foundation of islamic doctrineis filled with hate) While the Bible says l"ove thy neighbor is thyself" and that "God is Love"

The true God is only found in a God of Love which can be seen all through the teachings and life of Christ,in the Bible, while the true muslims teach kill the infedels in from the quaran

"he that loves not abides in death", had a typeo

I see your insults and flawed attempts to rationalize and defend an irrational theory. man is to prideful to admit God cannot be rationalized and we are not the wisest things walking, he is too great to fully comprehend, if he wasn’t he wouldn’t be God . "seek and you shall find" you can truly know God you have been taught to ignore

to Luce's Darkness
I know that God is real, because he has so radically changed my life i am free from my various perversions and sin. he has given me peace when I was on the brink of suicide, I have felt his love and peace, so can you. Think with your heart not your intellect “we walk by faith not by sight”

Answer 1

Sounds like you don't know the meaning of purpose, to be honest.

Who ever told you that evolution implies no meaning?

A fool, that is who.

Answer 2

Ahh my friend, you can't be any more wrong with the things you speak of.

To your first question: Nobody wants to go to hell, and nobody will because it most likely doesn't exist. Fact is that you can't be sure that you will be going to heaven either. Muslims believe they are the only ones going to heaven, same for Mormons, other Christian sects, Jews, and various Eastern Religions. There is no concrete way for you to determine you are part of the correct religion. statistically speaking, you might be at a slight advantage over Atheists if hell were to exist, but ultimately you could end up in hell that another person describes for being part of a false religion.

If god can't be comprehended and what not, fine. There are millions of other things that cannot be comprehended, but that doesn't make it any more likely they are true. Religion and god particularly have an everlasting impression because they derive from centuries of traditions. I don't completely blame religious for being so.

As an Atheist, I don't believe to be insignificant, purposeless, etc. I believe this is a wonderful world we live in, that sadly has its negative sides. I believe all humans have a duty to make eachothers existance better in every way possible. We create our purpose, and if you don't fulfill one, ultimately it is your fault, and your opportunity to set a recrod in the world will have passed.

You say evolution has many flaws, but you don't point out to any besides fossils that in short momment will prove wrong. Christianity has multiple flaws including the planet being 6 thousand years old, the impossibility and lack of records a world flood, the origin of languages through tower of babel, homosexuality being a choice, and countless others.

There is no Atheist that we came to existance spontaniously. The process had to take hundreds of years and various different stages hard to understand. In addition, none of the Atheists believe that we came from apes. We believe we share a common ancestor with them, and it makes sense since DNA evidence has shown we are about 99% similar with them.

Atheist can't explain "why there are NO MORE transitional beings" for 2 reasons. The first reason is that we ALL are transitional beings as it is. The second is that we have found transitional species. Here are only 2 examples of them:

1 - The Archeopteryx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx evidence clearly shows that this is the transformation dinasaurs took onto becoming birds.

2 - The Tiktaalik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik evidence clearly shows that this is the species that made it from water creatures into land creatures.

It is easily misconcieved to believe there are no transitional fossils, for creationists keep lying to people saying they don't exist. And others conviently forget these fossils are millions of years old, so the ones preserved are rare and appreciated for such reason.

Again, no apes became humans. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Lots of christians also belive in TOE.

Evolution was started in the early 1700's. You need to do meore research. By the way men wrote and voted on the books of the bible.

"Evolution has many flaws"
I bet you can't name two real flaws.

I don't belive in the Big Bang.

We did not come from apes.

“Where are all the missing links?”
We have found an abundance of transitional fossils. What this sort of questioning is implying is that we find every transitional fossil. I will gladly admit such a thing is impossible. It would be like digging up everyone of your ancestors to prove you are a descendent of a Frenchmen. I will give two examples of missing links. One is homo ergaster found to have lived 1.9 million years ago. Fossils and information can be seen here (http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/erg.html ). Another missing link is referred to as the Darwin Fish. Simply put this fossil shows the link between fish and tetrapods. The New York Times had an article about it found here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06fossil.html?ex=1301976000&en=76a1b46221b5cc6a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ).

Answer 4

You call Atheism a foolish gamble? Is it truly ay more foolish than attending church without believing in it simply because you're affraid of Hell? That act has a name. It's called "lip service".
I believe in evolution and Atheism as opposed to theism and Creationism for many reasons. Granted we don't have all the answers just yet. But to be fair we had even less answers as you look further back in time. Science is a progressive movement. We're still discovering the whys and whatfors. But it's my belief that trusting sound evidence such as what supports evolution (despite it's missing information) is more rational than blindly following some preacher who offers only half answers, giving mystic riddles such as, ". . . . God cannot be rationalized or totally comprehended by men, he is to great and to wise, but he does give us some revelation and understanding through his word, the Bible and his Spirit," when he lacks the answer.
And to push the point forward, I do infact trust a manmade theory less than two centuries old more than the millenia plus infinity-old word of someone's created "God".
I challenge you this: give me reason beyond a doubt that age alone grants authority while newer theories built around developing techniques are infact inferior and I will turn all my crosses right-side up again and become a born again Christian.
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You address me and argue blindly my rationale, yet you still refuse to give me reason to believe in Creationism. Read my answer more closely and give me a relevant response.
Ave Satanas!

Answer 5

"Atheists most likely believe the following:"

Notice that he has to guess at it...no doubt because he's never actually listened to what an atheist has ever said.

"we are insignificant, purposeless, accidents who came about by spontaneity and random chance due to some "big bang" or big lie,"

There was nothing random about evolution, nor in the process of planet-forming. You clearly possess a severe misunderstanding od basic science.

"we came from single celled organism blobs and apes........"

We did not come from apes. We share a common anscestor. There is a world of difference.

"Atheists believe in missing links, but can't find them because they never exist,"

The "missing link" is a fabrication of creationists. You will never find an anthropologist or paleontologist searching for a 'missing lnk."

"Atheists can’t explain why there are no more transitional beings"

Bad news: Everything is a transitional form.

"who can't find the necessary millions of transitional being skeletons from ape to man, that Darwin said is the only way to truly prove evolution, yet they still believe it as truth"

Actually such skeletons and bones have been found. Creationists just close their eyes and ears whenever they are on display.

The rest of your question is a badly phrased version of Pascal's Wager--an argument that has fallen on its face long ago.

Answer 6

By posting this question, you just admitted that you are putting your afterlife in gamble.

Most atheists do not even believe in afterlife, so there is no gamble for them, life just stops when death occurs. Finished, done! Got it?

Can't you just accept "No" for an answer and move on? Chances are you don't even know any of these atheists in real life, so why care so much? By posting questions like this, you are just being annoying and driving people away from your "true" religion -- very counter productive.

IMO, I seriously think Ya should put more restrictions on level 1 members for pissing in the pool like this...

Answer 7

First of all, thunder, I disprove of your grouping and generalization of "most atheists." I am offended. Second, if I say there is a big hairy green martian outside the room and if you don't believe in him you're going to martian-torture land, it's up to ME to prove that the martian does exist, not to you to prove he doesn't. Third, don't quote a book that has no hard proof of factuality, it's like using a line from "Snow White" to prove Witches exist.

I hope I did not offend your personal beliefs, if I did I am truly sorry.

Answer 8

Uhh, maybe because they are just as certain as you that no heaven or hell exists?

Asking for the 'millions of transitionals' that are necessary is intellectually dishonest. There are warehouses full of transitional fossils. Insisting they all exist and be found is absurd.

Also, here is a link to software that uses the same algorithms as does evolution.

http://www.solver.com/gabasics.htm

Are you going to say this computer modeling (based on evolution) does not work too?

How about this NASA computer modeling software (again, based on *the same* algorithms as evolution)..

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/antenna/antenna.html

A bummer for you because NASA is actually designing objects with something you say does not exist.

Answer 9

The Atheist's Wager

"It is better to live your life as if there are no Gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, He will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in Him."
(And if God is not benevolent, he's gonna git ya whatever you do!)

Answer 10

You know what, christians or atheists it doesnt matter. For all the christians that want to bash everyone elses religions on here. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost heep.