{"id":4890,"date":"2009-07-11T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2009-07-11T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:25:03","slug":"atheist-irrationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-irrationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist irrationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of soul-shrivelling tedium <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/08\/more-atheist-proselytising\/#comment-1690\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 which is representative of just about any exchange with an atheist \u2013 started me thinking about the seeming incapacity of many atheists to go back to first principles and inspect their unstated assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Atheists proudly exhibit a benighted resistance to logic that would be a source of extravagant rejoicing to an enemy of religion were he to discover it in a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>The following are among the numerous ideas that are beyond the mental capacity of most atheists:<\/p>\n<p>If God does not exist anything is permitted. Atheists generally respond: but atheists can be good people \u2013 avoiding the main point that with no absolute standard \u201cgood\u201d becomes relative and ends up having no meaning.<\/p>\n<p>A rationally intelligible universe is an <em>a priori<\/em> of science and points to a rationally intelligent Designer. An atheist will respond: scientific methodology itself is rational \u2013 avoiding the point that scientists don\u2019t try to make irrational hypotheses fit reality.<\/p>\n<p>If the numinous does not exist, the human mind is mechanical and to rely on it to examine a superset of its own mechanism requires a leap of faith much larger than a belief in a Designer. This appears to be completely beyond the comprehension of any atheist I\u2019ve encountered.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of something as complex as human self awareness points to a self aware Creator, not an accidental combining of molecules. Atheists often try to point out that the \u201ccreator God solution\u201d is really no solution since we then have to ask \u201cwho made God\u201d. This is a category error since, by definition, we are created and God isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The universe had a beginning which implies a Creator. The atheist tends to respond with the previous objection \u2013 it has the same flaw.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably regret posting this since it will undoubtedly provoke the usual deluge of inane nonsense: if you do want to respond, try to <em>think<\/em> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of soul-shrivelling tedium here \u2013\u00a0 which is representative of just about any exchange with an atheist \u2013 started me thinking about the seeming incapacity of many atheists to go back to first principles and inspect their unstated assumptions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-irrationally\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}