Don’t pretend you have an answer, you don’t, you simply maintain a mind always existed, no origin.
We can see minds forming daily, there isn’t any magic there. Although as a parent I will admit it does *feel* magical.
Explained in Words:
Top:
Theist : my manual says X
Atheist : what morons!
Bottom:
Atheist : their manual says X!
Atheist 2: what morons!
This is like saying your willingness to pay for something is based on your income and net worth. So if you are not going to pay for something you should be willing to share your income and net worth.
It's nonsense.
When you reject a claim, what do you think that’s based on? It’s based on your existing beliefs, your epistemic standards, and what you take to be true about reality… it’s based on your worldview.
Rejecting a claim is not necessarily to affirming an entire alternative theory of reality, but it is to rely on some kind of philosophical framework for evaluating what’s true and what’s false.
So if you’re going to use that framework to criticize someone else’s beliefs, you should be willing to subject your own framework to the same scrutiny.
Arguing that nature must be designed because its outcomes are improbable under blind chance is like claiming a near-perfect sphere must be designed because it’s one in an astronomical number of possible shapes. It ignores the physical processes that make some outcomes more likely
The problem of evil is a bit too abstract for most Christians it would seem.
So let’s go full story mode.
Why does Yahweh tolerate Satan? Why would he wipe out almost all of humanity for being wicked but let Lucifer roam around corrupting people for eternity?
It’s incoherent
So I think the reason Trump called for the Epstein files to be released during his campaign was because being a narcissistic sociopath he genuinely thought he had not done anything wrong.
Then his people read the Epstein files….
I think therefore I am is an absolute humble acknowledgment that all we really know is that we think.
I think therefore a mind is responsible for everything there is, is the ultimate arrogant assumption that your essence must be the essence of everything.
igtheist dude retweeted
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-George Bernard Shaw

















