Yes, we do, buddy. Our numbers are growing while yours are shrinking.
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However, in an "atheist" universe, there is no rational basis for them to assume induction, since in an "atheist" universe, nature is random and impersonal. For example, it can be equally possible in a given experiment that if you drop a ball that it can either go up or down in every trial, since nature is constantly changing without a standard interval.
Yet, "atheists" presume that nature is uniform, and therefore, they reason from past experiences that future ones (such as dropping a ball a hundred times to establish the law of gravity) will be the same in a given interval. They use induction. However, when they do so, they are no longer operating on "atheistic" assumptions about nature. In fact, they are acting like Christians, because in the Christian worldview, induction makes sense, since God has created the universe in a uniform and predictable pattern, governed by His laws imposed on what He created.
This is such bullshit. The belief that atheists believe the universe is "random" is widespread among ignorant religious zealots.
Physical laws are also not formulated in this matter. They are based on calculus and advanced mathematics, which are of course, applied logic. Put bluntly, your statements are clearly illogical.
Your little theorem can easily be applied to Zeus, Thor, Wotan, etc etc. It doesn't even help you, even if I assume that it's true, which I don't, and which it clearly isn't.
Your attempt to continuously apply some rip-off of Hoppe's argumentation ethic to apologize for your superstition is disingenuous and futile. No one but you is this desperate to keep your fairy tale alive.
It doesn't "tell us" anything. It is a passage from a book written by Middle Eastern bigots and charlatans. It's pure bullshit. You might as well quote from Mao's Little Red Book. At least then we'd get some insight into history...
The "atheist" knows God, but he suppresses the truth about Him in his heart. He would rather hold the truth in unrighteousness, as Verse 18 in that same passage tells us, than bow down to the obvious and worship his Creator.
I suppress the truth in my heart?
I don't like to talk about it, but when I was younger I was a devout Christian much like yourself, and I can tell you I did much more "suppressing of truth" back then than I've ever done since.
On that note, it is in no way "obvious" that an invisible man lives in the sky, and knows everything, controls everything, and creates everything, yet somehow leaves not a strand of empirical evidence. I'd sooner become a Sun worshiper than a Christian. At least I can see the sun. (and yes, I stole that from Carlin)
As I said before, the "atheist" must borrow those concepts from a Christian understanding of the universe.
So scientists must borrow concepts from superstition in order to arrive at scientific results?
Once again, you almost make me weep with your disregard for truth and reason. You can't write a single post with spouting off blatant contradictions.
So, does God create atheists? The answer is an emphatic no.
Couldn't agree with you more. "God" doesn't create anything. No such being exists.
The "atheist" naturally rejects God by his own volition, and he does so with the knowledge of God in his heart, however suppressed it may be. That is why "atheists" such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens always come across as people with these two basic but contradictory expressions in their thinking and writings:
- "There is no God," and
- "I hate Him."
Atheists cannot hate god. We don't believe it exists! How can we hate it? That makes absolutely no sense.
Also, stop speaking of Dawkins and Hitchens. You refuse to read Rothbard or Hoppe, let alone Dawkins or Hitchens. You're farrrrrrrrrrr too close-minded and lost to superstition to ever even consider reading
The God Delusion, or a similar work. Do not speak about that which you are totally ignorant of.
