Okay, so everything is made up of star stuff. When a super or hyper nova occurs - according to astrophysicists, that occurance creates a nebula - a star nursery where new stars are born. In other words, energy transforms because it can't be destroyed.
Assuming this assumption is correct, how can you, as a energy-carrying atheist, be destroyed?
2007-02-18 06:56:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The problem is that you are attempting to convince someone of something, when they have stated that "no matter what you try and claim, it is wrong".
Atheism is a stated claim that there is no God. Some, but not all, extend this to a philosophy of what can only be called Skepticism, or that any claims of paranormal are, by definition, automatically, without viewing evidence, false.
“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have the demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, a charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share in the same crusading zeal and the same total lack of humor, charity, and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogmas enter the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”
-Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
2007-02-18 07:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is a scientific law. It suggests that someone spent way more on their college education than I did.
Assuming this assumption is correct- I don't care either way. If you want to know every single detail of the universe, go spend your life studying it. Turn it into a religion. Me? I feel I've made a rational enough decision based upon what I already know and understand from all of the origin studies. For the most part, I don't care where the initial spark came from, or where the planets came from. Science isn't my religion. Nothing is.
I'm more comfortable saying the words I DON'T KNOW, than GOD DID IT. IT HAPPENED MAGICALLY doesn't compute with me. The Fact that there are Laws of Thermodynamics is enough for me to understand that things didn't just magically happen. Do we have all the answers? Not yet? Will we ever answer these? I don't know... but there's enough to go on to make me comfortable in being non religious.
2007-02-18 15:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by billthakat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there are many ways. there are this things called guns that shoot this things called bullets.poisons diseases etc etc. All of those thing will work. Whats great about this things that it works on everyone both atheist and religious freaks.
But this does not answer you question. Because when somebody dies he/she is transform. Oh yes, you see we decomposed giving way to new life like maggots and nourishing the ground. Well, not anymore because we are now berried but that's the way it used to be. So I guess you can't really destroy a person completely from this point of view.
Now a question for you. Why would you want to destroy an atheist. Doesn't Jesus say love thy neighbor? Didn't Jesus saved the prostitute from being stoned to death. Didn't he heal the leper. He did all those things that most people would avoid. Also, didn't the lord said that he gave man kind free will. Will to choose to be good or evil. So my question to you is who are you to question your own God. What gives you the right to destroy that which he created and take away those right that the Lord himself have given us. Who are you really and what makes you so special. I mean this is coming from a guy who is an atheist. So, I guess this makes me a better Christian than you because even if I don't believe I still believe this is good philosophy. I try to understand the meaning and the application of both the word that you Jesus freaks preach as well as the world around me. How can you spread hate when the message of your own savior is one of peace. This leads me to believe that you sir are a hypocrite or you did not understand the beautiful message that the man Known as Jesus lived and die for.
2007-02-18 15:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by mr_gees100_peas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) sites of supernova are not stellar nurseries - they may inject material into clouds that later become stars, but they don't collapse into new stars
2) this isn't really a great example of energy conservation, it's just an example of mass conservation (kinda)
3) the FIRST law of thermo deals with mass conservation, not the second
4) the SECOND law of thermo deals with entropy, which you have not addressed here
5) I am not made of energy. The energy in my body is in the form of matter - that can be burned (through exercise of some sort) into energy. Pretty inefficiently. If I stop moving, I stop turning matter into energy. There's no more to me than the sum of my parts. I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at here.
2007-02-18 15:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not going to be destroyed. My body will be cremated and turn to ash. The liquids will vaporize. If you're talking about brain function and thought, well, I guess that goes the same place as the energy in a battery goes after it's been used up.
And, another thing: why are atheists constantly being asked to justify their lack of belief when the believers can just say, "because God says so," and feel that's an answer?
2007-02-18 15:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you even know what the second law is? Read this and maybe you can post a question that makes some sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
If you are trying to indicate that the soul is energy, just tell me how you managed to measure that energy and then we can talk about it.
2007-02-18 15:03:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no proof that our souls are in fact "energy", and we therefore do not have to bother answering this. Our bodies rot, decay, and for lack of a better description, "melt" back into the Earth. When we die, the things that makes us who we are, our brains, are a PHYSICAL structure, and they stay here on Earth. So, there is no reason to believe that we have "souls" that encompass who we are and live on after we die. What makes us who we are, our brains, simply die. Therefore it is not possible that we could live on.
What makes us "alive", is electrical impulses that work through our bodies. When the spark dies, we die.
2007-02-18 14:59:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Sorry, atheists don't believe in souls, we are just physical figures
2007-02-18 15:04:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-18 14:59:18 · answer #9 · answered by Maestro 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Humans are made of matter; matter can decay. Basic physics.
2007-02-18 14:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋