Just started reading this book by David Berlinski.
Uh-oh. Heh...j/k.
Has anyone provided a proof of God's inexistence?
Not even close.
How many times do we have to go over this? It is the people
making the claim that have the burden of proof...so if you say that there is a god, that means you, Believer.
But like Falconer said:
we have blown your personal, defined gods out of the water time and again (ya'll just refuse to come to grips with this). It is the mushy, "god in general" -
a.k.a. NOT Yahweh, NOT Allah - that we can't disprove.
Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here?
Not even close.
Stephen Hawking can confirm that the conditions existed for the universe to be so WITHOUT GOD just fine.
Have the sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life?
Not even close.
This is a fallacy based on the anthropic principle. "Why" is not a valid question. There's only reality, and the reality is, the conditions of the universe became conducive to life. It's really not THAT hard to believe that all of this is possible without some "supreme being" when you have a
massive timeframe and trillions of galaxies to work with.
Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it it is not religious thought?
Close enough.
This is ridiculous and very childlike to say. Science is not out to get religion...it's only here to IMPROVE your life...but it just so happens a major consequence of science is squashing peoples' defined gods. It's not like science is TRYING to do that; it's simply discovering how things work and guess what,
data points to events being possible without a so-called personal creator.Has rationalism in moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral?
Not close enough.
Religious people are really funny trying to claim the moral card. Have you read the Old Testament?! Oh, and it was JESUS who introduced eternal torture...that's New Testament, folks. Not to mention the Crusades, the Inquisition, burning people at the stake...all thanks to your friendly neighborhood religion.
Has secularism in the terrible twentieth century been a force for good?
Not even close to being close.
Please go live in a cave author-dude if you're going to make such rude, blatantly false statements. When religion ruled the world it was called The Dark Ages. Do you really want that again?
How about moving to the Middle East? No secularism there, folks! Oh wait...you like your privileged, SECULAR American life, now don't you?
Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt?
Dead on.
What the hell is scientific atheism?! Quit making phrases up, religious community! This kind of talk is not characteristic of high intellectual capability.