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An effort at reason is being asked of you... why can't you answer? Are people wrong to assume you have some reasoning that goes along with the assertion? Or is blind faith belief the only justification?

So? Look who said there's scientific evidence for God:

Our mental picture of what nature is determines our attitudes and behaviors towards nature and one another. What we think of the world is how we treat the world. As we all know, thinking a God exists has its effects on the believer's behaviors. Humans are believers, what they believe determines...

Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I knew a kid who was EXACTLY like Arnie when I was a kid. All the same hyper-ness and most of the same little quirks. DiCaprio so entirely embodied that, down to the tiniest details (like blinking out of sequence a couple times, for one example)...

This argument does nothing to fix the broken concept. If a god exists and stands by while a person dying of cancer suffers, and the god can see there's nothing the dying person can learn from the torment he's going through, then the god's committing an act of evil to let the suffering continue...

It's the existence of the idea of an all-good God that made/oversees a universe with suffering in it that creates the problem of evil. That problem applies to the idea. The PoE is a logical consequence of the idea of an all-good God. The idea exists, so the problem with the idea exists. No...

Will "universe" do? I think cosmological panpsychism is at least "barking up the right tree". It proposes that consciousness is ubiquitous throughout the matter of the universe so that the universe is in effect an evolving brain. This opens up the possibility for teleology and an explanation...

But does everyone share the rule to not kill others, or to not "other" others? The commandment seems to be a rule with no exceptions to it. If Jews and Christians believe the commandment is from God and that it has no exceptions, then they're hypocrites to be ok with the killing of others. But...

That's a late 19th century miner's hammer found in a deposit of travertine. And about the website you linked to: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/archaeology-world/

Imitation is why God was described as a creator. Humans were deemed to be creators first. Then when a myth was made with a human-like god in it, the human trait of intentional creativity was assigned to that character. The character is a creator god because it's made in the image of humans. You...

When Trump mangles a word, his brain is switching the organization of the word around and trying to settle on something that sounds like the word his brain is trying and failing to form. This is called phonemic paraphasia. The cause of this is brain damage. It cannot be demonstrated more finally...

Soldier's annoying activity included several dozens accusations of lying, from his first days at IIDB to his last -- across 2 years, before the most attention-grabbing single event finally happened. Yes I agree. It's his strategy to resolve his unhappiness that is so mindless and inept that...

Your will-to-stay-unaware strikes again and has "won" another argument.

This argument doesn't make much sense to me, for these reasons: 1. anyone who rejects 9999 of 10000 gods believes in one god and so they're a theist and not an atheist. I guess it can make a little sense to talk of a theist as "atheistic towards other gods" but does that turn the person into an...

Oops, I boo-boo'd. I'll correct my error: He's expressing surprise that persons in general at IIDB have said something in defense of human life.

But then the poster that he congratulated for "defending human life" is one of the two pro-death-penalty posters. I think he didn't recognize the "keep up the good work" phrase as referring to his own (Unknown Soldier's) apparent improvement in behavior.

No. I think they deserved death. Maybe lots of people do. But then my point was that the legal system is bound to screw up sometimes. So, what about the people who get convicted but don't deserve death? Why ignore them when their deaths are every bit as tragic as any other innocent person's?

It's a sure bet innocent persons will die if the death penalty is kept around. But even one is too many. IMV, no pro-death penalty argument holds any weight at all, NONE, when viewed in the light of someone being tortured and killed by bureaucrats in the name of "justice" or "making people...

Naturalists and Christian supernaturalists both know that our bodies rot after death. Naturalists will be bugged by mortality if they've failed to contemplate it thoroughly (because if experiencing of one's life starts after you're born but ends before you're dead, there's only experience of...

It's a post to @Infinite Monkey, but hopefully he or she doesn't mind if I take a turn at answering this. It seems "too weak" because you're not considering the positive belief in naturalism which precludes supernatural gods. So a naturalist doesn't need explicit reasons for why gods don't...