Atheists, please explain the following?

Question

Many of you have said that atheists are more intelligent than theists. Prove it. If you ignore these questions and say they belong to the Science Section you are in effect ignoring the possibility of an Intelligent Designer.

Why were there primitive life forms on earth?
Why is it that no primitive tribe has been found that does not have a moral conscience? A moral sense of right and wrong?
Why is that all primitive tribes that have been discovered know the Golden Rule?
How was gravity formed?

Be honest. Examine your conscience before answering them because a scientific explanation is not really required, unless you want to make one.

If morality grew out of a need to preserve the specie, how come humans do not behave like animals?

Have you ever considered this fact?

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.

That's the explanation C. S. Lewis gave to the question of why we have a natural sense of right and wrong.

All primitive tribes that have been discovered have some concept of a God or Gods. Does that surprise you?

Answer 1

1. Goddidit.
2. Goddidit.
3. Goddidit.
4. Goddidit.

Answer 2

"Why were there primitive life forms on earth?"

Why denotes reason. That is an assumption on your part; I can only answer How.

"Why is it that no primitive tribe has been found that does not have a moral conscience? A moral sense of right and wrong?"

Because the tribe would fall into anarchy and they would have killed themselves off. "Morals" are nothing more than human behavior that strengthens community bonds.

"Why is that all primitive tribes that have been discovered know the Golden Rule?"

Again, same answer. A tribe that does not work together and ensure the success of the tribe as a whole will fail and all members will die.

It is evolutionary advantageous for moral "Golden Rule" behavior.


"How was gravity formed?"

It is a natural product of matter. See Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.


"Examine your conscience before answering them because a scientific explanation is not really required, unless you want to make one."

Scientific explanations are the ONLY valid explanations there are. Otherwise any bullsh*t answer I come up with would also be considered valid, when in any rational case it wouldn't be.

Answer 3

Interesting:

you point out that "Why is it that no primitive tribe has been found that does not have a moral conscience? A moral sense of right and wrong?
Why is that all primitive tribes that have been discovered know the Golden Rule"

Which, since these tribes have no knowledge of God, is evidence that morality can (in fact must) exist without the presence of God.

Answer 4

Since you are immediately guilty of a "false dilemma" fallacy and that immediately makes you appear less intelligent. Just because someone may not be able to explain something, doesn't mean that God then is the logical explanation. A scientific answer is not relevent here, because you are inserting whatever you want as an explanation for whatever you want to ask. As for your question about the Golden Rule, which btw has been around long before monotheism even came along, it does not apply to every culture ever discovered. Cannibals anyone? Now, lets get to your Intelligent Designer. Who designed him, being that your argument is that all complicated things have a designer. Designers always create things that less complicated than they are so God MUST have a designer by way of your argument. Right now is about when your "intelligence" flies out the door.

Answer 5

Wow! Where to start. Intelligence, or lack there of, has nothing to do with it. It's intellectual honesty that separates the theist from the non-theist.

Primitive life forms... First of all, "why" is the wrong question for the first one... "How" is more appropriate and honestly i can say "we don't know." Bear in mind this is very far from saying "god did it."

Human beings, and morality. Simple isn't it... self preservation is a shared value among all living things. Reduction of threat is a step towards self preservation and if you examine morality microscopically you will notice that it all boils down to self and species preservation. It's an evolutionary trait... there is a fantastic chapter on it in Dawkins' book "the God Delusion."

On gravity, again, you are asking the wrong question. In theory (please note this is different then hypothesis, there is evidence to support this stuff) Mass bends the space & time around it. Even you and i, an and, the space and time around us are bent in proportion to our mass. When you deal with mass on an enormous scale you begin to get noticeable amounts of this bending and that is what we call gravity. Black holes are the most massive things that we know of in our galaxy and that is why nothing can escape them, they bend space/time to an unimaginable degree.

Scientific explanations ARE in fact required because the only way to be sure of something is to examine the evidence. Anything else is conjecture and that gets us nowhere. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 6

OK - many answers to that question. 1) I don't believe atheists are necessarily more intelligent that theists or deists. I'm not an evangelical atheist - I don't know - I study the facts - the facts lead me to a conclusion. All of these arguments end in one place "who made god?" or "what existed before the Universe?"

Your questions, however, show a basic misunderstanding of humanity! Primitive tribe (incredibly patronising btw - who is to say what is "primitive" - you? Who are you? What are you? The Golden rule? What the hell is that?
Arrogance?

Answer 7

I am ignoring the possibiliy of an Intelligent Designer.

The very idea has no merit and no evidence.

Yours is a "God of the Gaps". You don't understand something, and it makes your head hurt, so it's easier for you to say "goddidit" than admit we don't know yet as a species, or to put in the research yourself and realize science has already answered this but it takes a little studying to understand.

The problem with a "God of the Gaps" is that as science progresses and our knowledge increases, those gaps are getting smaller and smaller. Which makes god seem pretty pointless afterall.

Answer 8

1.Primitive life forms arose gradually from successive generations, originating in the form of self-replicating organic molecules called RNA(and later, DNA) on the primordial Earth. These organisms developed into greater and greater levels of complexity until you reach H. Sapiens.
2.Because our brains are mechanically and chemically structured for us to have religious beliefs. Religion, in fact, may the the result of a number of combined factors: the use of entheogenic psychoactive drugs by ancient cultures, the desire of a rational, sapient organism to find clear, concise explanations for things (and without the resources of science, God is a very succint explanation) and varying degrees of temporal lobe epilepsis which opens one up to experience religious 'visions.' Furthermore, atheists generally are mutants in that they produce a great amount of IA2 inhibitors: these neurotransmitting pathways allow for feelings of confirmation and the unwillingness to question religious beliefs. However, as we can observe in lesser mammals (such as chimpanzees) morality actually evolved before religion and predates it by several millions of years.
3.Is that so? Doesn't the Old Testament say "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" while the Golden Rule say "treat others as you would be treated"? Your statement is patently false.
Gravity is a natural law that arises from quantum strings, and may vary from one universe in the multi-verse to the next.

Answer 9

Question one makes no sense (as a 'why' question) other than it would be difficult nay impossible for non-primitive ones to form spontaneously. (as in the erroneous 747 analogy)

Question two is about social animals, these sort of rules have to evolve otherwise you do not get a society at all.

Question three see the answer to question two.

Question four also makes no real sense, it is a physical property of the universe in which we find ourselves.


And conscience has nothing to do with it.

Answer 10

Let me see. You are saying that unless an atheist can prove that he or she is more intelligent than you, then you should feel free to believe that this is in itself evidence of an intelligent designer. I believe that your question qualifies as evidence of the least intelligent question on this topic to date. Therefore, you may accept this as proof of whatever you want. Most likely, you will accept the extreme lack of intelligence demonstrated in your question as proof of an intelligent designer as well. That does make sense, as it takes intelligence to question, which your question clearly lacks. But wait. If you cannot question your own question, then surely even you can recognize that as a lack of intelligence. Therefore, according to your logic, or lack thereof, this must constitute absolute proof against intelligent design.