Some questions for atheists?

Question

Many of you have said that atheists are more intelligent than theists. Give me a logical or scientific explanation to the following:

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? "Do to others as you would want others to do to you."
Why is it that all primitive tribes that have been discovered have a concept of God or Gods?

How do you explain the beauty, order, and irreducible complexity of our world and the universe?

Please do not say these questions belong to some other section, because if you do I will conclude that you can't face the fact that God was behind all of the above. Be honest. Examine your conscience before answering them. A scientific explanation is not really required, unless you want to make one.

Icarus 62, if what you say is true why is it that humans do not behave like animals?

Guys have you 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:

Natural B, are you saying this beauty, order and irreducible complexity of our world and the universe all happened by chance?
You are very smart but my answer to your theory is NOT A CHANCE!

Answer 1

Yes indeed
We are completely unique
Not even twins are exactly the same.
Think about how intricate the human eye is
The way that our internal organs work in unison
Each of us were fearfully and wonderfully made.
How great is our God!

Answer 2

"Please do not say these questions belong to some other section, because if you do I will conclude that you can't face the fact that God was behind all of the above. Be honest. "

Where is that "God"? Be honest. Tell me - without being evasive or doing that pathetic "we see him in everything around us" BS - where your "god" can be seen and spoken with.

Face the facts - you can't.

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Answers to your questions:
Why were there primitive life forms on earth? -

What do you mean by "Why?"? Are you asking why they were here and not elsewhere? Are you asking what caused them to exist? This question is poorly formed.

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? "Do to others as you would want others to do to you."

Evolutionary advantage. That should be utterly obvious. Animals - including some that we think of as quite primitive - share these.

Why is it that all primitive tribes that have been discovered have a concept of God or Gods?

Assuming that's really true, it's a side effect of various cognitive and emotional biases we have, such as the tendency to see intention in non-intentional processes and to see patterns in randomness. Both are probably side effects of systems developed to keep us on guard against predators, among other things.

How do you explain the beauty, order, and irreducible complexity of our world and the universe?

"Irreducible complexity" is easily explained - it's a term developed by creationist propagandists to try to persuade people that science cannot be true. The propagandists are motivated by the fear that science threatens their religious belief systems, and hence the socioeconomic standing of the people not bright enough to understand evolution.

"Beauty" is of course in the eye of the beholder. We find things beautiful for a variety of reasons, many of them probably also side effects of evolutionary developments such as the need to be attracted to appropriate mates.

Order is the product of natural laws such as those involving gravity, growth, the inverse-square nature of radiation propagation, the various ways that heat crosses space, etc.

Did you make any effort at all to understand these things before asking, or did you simply decide to say "God was behind all of them" out of sheer ignorant arrogance? I think we know the answer.

Answer 3

All questions can be answered with one word: evolution. For example, obviously human tribes with a moral conscience were, in the long run, better equipped for survival than tribes without one. Same goes for the golden rule: The golden rule is even (instinctively) followed by certain animals, so why not by humans?
Regarding the concepts of religion, it stems from the difficulty to accept the inevitabilty of death, and the very successful evolutional trait of humans to observe patterns in everything (like animal tracks, weather effects, seasons) - this makes humans see patterns also where actually no patterns are.
The beauty of the universe is subjective. Not the universe was created for us to live in, but we evolved in this universe, and therefore we appreciate it.

Everything can, and should, be explained beautifully without the need of inventing a supreme creator.

Answer 4

Life arose on the early Earth by abiogenesis.

All people have the same innate moral sense because it comes from evolution. A god cannot account for morality.

Belief in gods is a flaw in human nature - a by-product of other useful character traits.

There is no irreducible complexity in the world. Order and complexity come from chaos and simplicity because of the nature of matter and forces. Ultimately, the nature of existence is random and acausal. This is the only answer that doesn't lead to logical absurdities. An intelligent creator is logically impossible.

Answer 5

I don't really care, but have you noticed that some primitive tribes are still around and they tie their peckers to their belly's. they do believe in a god but not yours, and some of the more intelligent people on this Earth were Atheists and have made MAJOR medical advances in many aspects that benefit the MOTHER EARTH. The energy you'd exert on preaching and teaching could be spent on research or caring about science. Churches have one purpose and they bring people together in one area to share a prayer, and to confirm that there is more people that share a faith. Don't get me wrong, I'd still go if I hadn't been turned away 7 years ago. At that one moment opened my eyes to everything else that needs attention in the world.

Answer 6

Why were there primitive life forms on earth?
That's what evolved first, duh.

Why is it that no primitive tribe has been found that does not have a moral conscience? A moral sense of right and wrong?
dawkin's theories on the evolution of Altruism

Why is that all primitive tribes that have been discovered know the Golden Rule? "Do to others as you would want others to do to you."
You think Christians invented it, don't you? If so, you just contradicted yourself. If not, then, why do you ask?

Why is it that all primitive tribes that have been discovered have a concept of God or Gods?
Wy do most of them think the Earth is flat?


How do you explain the beauty, order, and irreducible complexity of our world and the universe?
Irreduceable complexity is bullshit! Hell, you guys had to change the meaning to the point that it is meaningless.
Originally it was "something that can't function without one missing part", now it's "something that can no longer do the exact same thing without one missing part" which means if you put a coat on, without that coat you can no longer walk in the snow without it, therefore you with a coat on is irreduceable complex.

Answer 7

I am not a scientist; not all atheists are scientists, any more than all Christians are bible scholars.

I have never said that atheists are more intelligent. Statistics show they are generally better educated.

The golden rule exists in most cultures because it PRE-DATES the bible, not because other cultures pulled it from Judeo-Christian law. Judaism and Christianity are jonny-come-latelies to the scene of world faith.

We see beauty because we perceive it to be so. Have you never taken a philosophy class?

And of course, nothing I answer will matter to you i the slightest anyway.

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Answer 8

Your question is a good example of how some christians display less intelligence than atheists.

There are plenty of cultures around the world that used to practise cannibalism. I hardly think that fits into your "Golden rule"

You golden rule is ignored by every totalitarian dictator the world has seen.

How about torture?

Other primates display similar social tendencies to humans.

The beauty and so called "order" you describe is actually chaotic in the extreme.

Life on this planet is one of those happy accidents that happen to one in around 6 billion planets.

If it were ordered, we wouldn't have earthquakes and other disasters and childbirth would be painless.

Get your head out of that silly bible and have a good look at the world around you.

Answer 9

because it just is.
don't you get it?
humans and their understanding of science don't have all the answers for everything... mabe there are things that will never be known.
anyway, those basic things you have listed are the result of evolution. physical, cultural
it's so obvious!
why has christianity evolved?
how do you prove god?
by the way there are numerous studies that have confirmed that atheists are more intelligent.

Answer 10

I feel these are wrong questions to an atheists because I being a theist, i myself can answer scientifically without bringing god into picture. better questions next time.