Are we all just a bunch of atoms bouncing into each other?

Question

This is truly aimed at the atheists and scientists out there. Science teaches us that everything, including ourselves, is made up of atoms. We're a bunch of atoms bouncing together. No souls, no free will, no higher power. When a bunch of my atoms bounce together in a certain way, I am reaching for a ham sandwich. If they bounce another way, I'm waving to my pal Bob. Hey Bob! If somebody rapes a woman, just a bunch of atoms bouncing together. Slit somebody's throat? Just some atoms. Takes 20 babies and throws them into a woodchipper? Atoms. There is no right or wrong, because we're all just a bunch of atoms bouncing around, right?

The point of the question, which is apparently lost on some of the eggheads here is as follows: Are we just a bunch of particles randomly bumping into each other? Are we something more? If we are just a bunch of particles bumping into each other, then there is no afterlife, no God, no free will, no MORALS (except what we say is moral). What is guiding our decisions? Certain chemical reactions in our brains, which equate to particles bouncing a certain way? Or maybe, just maybe, is there a little bit more going on here?

Answer 1

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read, and it is truly horrifying that you are the product of any education system in the free world.
Firstly, what do you think matter is made of? We know there are atoms. This is not an issue on which science and religion are divided.
Secondly, atoms do not suggest an absence of free will or a higher power. There is absolutely no reason for you saying that, no logic could have lead you to that conclusion.
Thirdly, the existence of atoms does not, in any way shape or form, mean the nonexistence of right and wrong. That is one of the most unintelligent things I've ever heard in my entire life. Indeed I feel stupider for having read it.
I could go on, but your logic makes me want to throw up.
No atheist I've ever met has suggested that not believing in God allows them to do whatever they want. We just have less selfish reasons for doing good things.

Answer 2

You are oversimplifying things and building an erroneous argument. Yes, everything that exists is made of matter which is made of atoms which is made of subatomic particles and energy. This does not mean that we have not developed a sense of what is good for us and what is not. Things that are right are wrong are so because of their effects.

What's so wrong with being responsible for yourself and your actions and having respect for others? Why do you try to cheapen the experience of living a decent life by attributing all that is good about life to something that may not even exist? I understand the purpose of the question, however it makes you appear as if you are looking for an excuse to rape and kill.

Answer 3

No worse still, atoms or apes, it's still as you point out an excuse for nonsense! When science tries to do away with God it replaces his law of love with the law of self and the right to vote for the myth of individual over and above community.

Answer 4

If you are trying to justify some homicidal tendencies you have, you are doing a bad job. Just because you consist of atoms does not give you any exuse for rape or murder. I hope I do not live near you. Fortunately most of us have evolved morals.

Every time one of you christians tell me that without your belief in a god who would punish you, you would run out and commit rape and murder I shudder. Its hard to believe evolved people can be so immoral.

Most of us fortunately don't need a fear of punishment to prevent us from raping and murdering others.

Answer 5

My goodness! What are they coaching you childrens at school at present? Water bubbles whilst boiled is a factor transition, not a chemical technique, so there is not any breaking of H2O molecular bonds. Boiling is the fast vaporization of a liquid, which often happens whilst a liquid is heated to a temperature such that its vapor rigidity is above that of its ecosystem, which includes air rigidity. hence, a liquid may additionally boil whilst the rigidity of the encircling ecosystem is satisfactorily decreased, such because of the fact using a vacuum pump or at intense altitudes. Boiling happens in 3 function varieties, that are nucleate, transition and picture boiling. Nucleate boiling is the main worry-free style of boiling and it quite is characterised via bubbles, which upward thrust from discrete factors on a floor, whose temperature is totally somewhat above the liquid’s saturation temperature. frequently, the style of nucleation web pages are larger via an increasing floor temperature. An weird and wonderful floor of the boiling vessel can create extra nucleation web pages, mutually as an exceedingly comfortable floor (which includes glass) lends itself to superheating. whilst the exterior temperature reaches a optimal fee, the intense superheat, vapor starts to sort swifter than liquid can attain the exterior. hence, the heated floor all at as quickly as will become coated with a vapor layer. because of vapor layer’s decrease thermal conductivity, this vapor layer insulates the exterior. This condition of a vapor movie insulating the exterior from the liquid characterizes movie boiling. Transition boiling could be defined because of the fact the risky boiling, which happens at floor temperatures between the optimal accessible in nucleate and the minimum accessible in movie boiling.

Answer 6

Is the Mona Lisa just a few smears of paint on some cloth?

Answer 7

Actually we are just a bunch of electrons disappearing and reappearing all the time.

Answer 8

Ouch, thats my eye! Watch it!

Answer 9

What kind of silly logic is that?

Answer 10

YEAH, BABY!