Why are athiests claiming to be so much smarter than Christians?
Posted by James on December 10, 2012 · 13 Comments
Question by You lose: Why are athiests claiming to be so much smarter than Christians?
yet to stupid to do basic research like google the Lourdes miracles, gifts from God proven by science. Why does faith cause them such frothy fear and loss of reason.
Best answer:
Answer by Andymcj78 – Atheist
Proven by science? I think you’ll find that by definition supernatural miracles are outwith the scope of scientific study.
Give your answer to this question below!
If you are hanging your religion on Lourde’s miracles, then you are fucked !
Just because it’s on Google, it means it’s been proven by SCIENCE.
/sarcasm
“loss of reason”
Now that is rich coming from somebody that believes in fairy tales. lol
“gifts from God proven by science”
Since science only concerns itself with natural explanations, any miracle “proved by science” isn’t a miracle, by definition.
Peer review citation for Lourdes, please.
You believe in a magical being that floats in the sky and if you’re good then you get eternal life. Hmm break down it a bit, you believe in something, and if you’re good, you’re rewarded. Change it up a bit, then you’re believing in Santa Claus.
If christians were really smart then they would have proved their God’s existence by now. We all have different info to present, and it’s a matter of subjectivity of what we accept or choose to believe. Who the hell really knows what’s right or wrong?
HAVE you wondered why everything from atomic particles to vast galaxies is governed by precise mathematical laws? Have you reflected on life itself—its variety, its complexity, and its amazing design? Many attribute the universe and the life in it to a great cosmic accident and evolution. Others give credit to an intelligent Creator. Which viewpoint do you feel is more reasonable?
Of course, both viewpoints involve faith. Belief in God rests on faith. As the Bible says, “no man has seen God at any time.” (John 1:18) Likewise, no human saw the forming of the universe or the commencement of life. Nor has anyone ever seen one kind of life evolve into a higher kind or even into a different kind. The fossil record shows that the major groups of animals appeared suddenly and have remained virtually unchanged.* The key question, therefore, is this: Which faith sits on a firm foundation—faith in evolution or faith in a Creator?
Is Your Faith Based on Solid Evidence?
Genuine “faith,” says the Bible, is “the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Hebrews 11:1) The New English Bible renders the verse this way: “Faith . . . makes us certain of realities we do not see.” No doubt you can think of a number of unseen realities in which you firmly believe.
To illustrate: Many respected historians believe that Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Jesus Christ once lived. Is the faith of these historians sound? Yes, for they can point to authentic historical evidence.
Scientists too believe in unseen realities because of the “evident demonstration” that those realities exist. For example, the 19th-century Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev became entranced with the relationship between the elements, the basic building blocks of the universe. He realized that they had certain things in common and could be grouped by both atomic weight and chemical properties. Because of his faith in the order of the groups, he drafted the periodic table of the elements and correctly predicted the existence of a number of elements unknown at the time.
If ancient structural design is attributed to humans, to whom do we attribute design in nature?
Archaeologists draw conclusions about earlier civilizations, often from items that have lain buried for thousands of years. Imagine, for example, that an archaeologist has unearthed dozens of carefully cut stone blocks of precisely the same size neatly aligned on top of one another. They are also set out in a distinct geometric pattern that does not occur naturally. What would the archaeologist conclude? Would he attribute his find to coincidence? Most likely not. Rather, he would interpret it as evidence of past human activities, and that would be a reasonable conclusion.
To be consistent, should we not apply the same reasoning to the design manifest in the natural world? Many people have taken that view, including respected scientists.
Blind Chance or Purposeful Design?
Years ago, British mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Sir James Jeans wrote that in the light of advancing scientific knowledge, “the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” He also stated that “the universe appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician” and that it provides “evidence of a designing or controlling power that has something in common with our own individual minds.”
Albert Einstein
Other scientists have arrived at a similar conclusion since Jeans penned those words. “The overall organization of the universe has suggested to many a modern astronomer an element of design,” wrote physicist Paul Davies. One of the most famous physicists and mathematicians of all time, Albert Einstein, wrote: “The fact that [the natural world] is comprehensible is a miracle.” In the eyes of many, that miracle includes life itself, from its fundamental building blocks to the amazing human brain.
DNA and the Human Brain
DNA is the genetic material of all cellular organisms and the molecular basis for heredity.# This complex acid has been compared to a blueprint or a recipe, for DNA is packed with information, which is encoded in chemical form and stored in a molecular environment that is capable of
Not smarter just better informed. The difference between you and and atheist researching these so-called miracles is that your belief in them is an automatism, for an atheist or agnostic personal experience is just that, personal experience which can and most often is, flawed. We require verifiable, scientific proof, not stories.
Scientifically there is no such thing as a miracle.
Because atheist know that Jesus is human being created and Jesus was not a Creator.
Why asking help from someone who can’t even save himself from being cruzified by the Roman and Jews.
If you can’t help yourself can you help others. Why the Christian believed Jesus was God?
I bet you a thousand dollars If i search Google for any recent (A.D.) significant hard proven miracles, I will not find a god damn one. Why cant Moses or anyone just post a god damn video on you tube of a cane turning into a snake? Because maybe that crap is fake as hell? And yes its been proven atheist know even more about your religion than you do. Have you been living under a rock your whole life or what?
Try again.
An ant is smarter than a Christian because it doesn’t waste the only life it has worshiping a sky daddy.
You stay with your fantasy claims and leave the atheists to the intelligence and evolutionary advancement!
Research has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith. The difference is 5.8 points according to findings in developmental psychology!
More members of the “intellectual elite” considered themselves atheists than the national average.
Only 7 percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 percent believed in God in the UK’s Royal Society.
Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ’s tend not to believe in God.”
Neuroscientists have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the most widely used intelligence test in the world.
The results show that the various factors that comprise a high or low IQ score
depend on particular regions of the brain.
The WAIS test is composed of four indices of intelligence, each consisting of several subtests, which together produce a full-scale IQ score. The four indices are the verbal comprehension index, which represents the ability to understand and to produce speech and use language; the perceptual organization index, which involves visual and spatial processing, such as the ability to perceive complex figures; the working memory index, which represents the ability to hold information temporarily in mind (similar to short-term memory); and the processing speed index.
With the exception of processing speed, which appears scattered throughout the brain, the lesion mapping showed that the other three cognitive indices really do depend on specific brain regions.
For example, lesions in the left frontal cortex were associated with lower scores on the verbal comprehension index; lesions in the left frontal and parietal cortex (located behind the frontal lobe) were associated with lower scores on the working memory index; and lesions in the right parietal cortex were associated with lower scores on the perceptual organization index.
The study also revealed a large amount of overlap in the brain regions responsible for verbal comprehension and working memory, which suggests that these two now-separate measures of cognitive ability may actually represent the same type of intelligence, at least as assessed using the WAIS.
It matters not if they are atheist because of this new type of intelligence or get it because they are atheist – it is a totally different and far more efficient process!!