Re: God and Free Will
There are 2 possibilities:
1) God created our universe.
2) God did not create our universe. (his existence is irrelevant in this case)
So, if the "open-minded" atheist can completely and utterly dismiss possibility #1 he must have a reasonable explanation to how our universe came into existence. If he doesn't have some semblance of proof, then it would be silly to dismiss reasonable alternatives. So, what is the hypothesis? Will it be getting published in respected scientific journals any time soon? If no such hypothesis exists, why would you dismiss everything that includes the word "God"? Isn't that diminishing your options? It would seem this is being rather closed minded.
Note that I only have a problem when people who have no clue what they're talking about start brandishing about statements like "God and religion are retarded". They take a freshman philosophy class and all of a sudden they have the answers to questions people have been debating for millenia.
I have no problem with agnostics or more reasonable atheists (I have a problem with the unreasonable theists as well, typically).
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